Thrust Quotes

246 quotes by 226 authors

With that, the poignant charm vanished. Inside the fifth machine, all was rampant malignity. Deformed flowers thrust monstrous horned tusks and trumpets ending in blaring… — Angela Carter
The Saint whose water can light lamps, the clairvoyant whose lapse in recall is the breath of God, the true paranoid for whom all is… — Thomas Pynchon
In my joy I thrust my hand into the live embers, but quickly drew it out with a cry of pain. How strange, I thought… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Everyone carries a part of society on his shoulders; no one is relieved of his share of responsibility by others. And no one can find… — Ludwig von Mises
The sisters and brothers that you meet give you the materials which your character uses to build itself. It is said that some people are… — Maya Angelou
Some are born weird, some achieve it, others have weirdness thrust upon them. — Dick Francis
It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who, like… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Rita looked as though she would have liked nothing better than to seize the paper umbrella sticking out of Hermione's drink and thrust it up… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
The way to a man's heart is through his stomach...just make sure you thrust upward through his ribcage. — Stephen Colbert
I would say that the thrust of my life has been initially about getting free, and then realizing that my freedom is not independent of… — Ram Dass
The road is a word, conceived elsewhere and laid across the country in the wound prepared for it: a word made concrete and thrust among… — Wendell Berry
Men who find themselves late are never sure. They are all the things the civics books tell us the good citizen should be: partisans but… — Stephen King
No one could tell you: you just had to go through it on your own. If you were lucky, you came out on the other… — Sarah Dessen
Actual life was chaos, but there was something terribly logical in the imagination. It was the imagination that set remorse to dog the feet of… — Oscar Wilde
Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a… — William Golding
In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the… — Oscar Wilde
The engine roared to life. He ran toward her. She shot our of her parking space. He rushed to the side of her car. "Stop… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips
At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you'll have to find your inner motivation to seek for new… — Bill Watterson
My mind, I know, I can prove, hovers on hummingbird wings. It hovers and it churns. And when it's operating at full thrust, the churning… — Dave Eggers
In other words, it's one of those books you thrust on your partner with an incredulous cry of "This is me! — Nick Hornby

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