Wrest Quotes

25 Wrest quotes by 24 unique authors

Nature does not suffer her veil to be taken from her, and what she does not choose to reveal to the spirit, thou wilt not… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
[Regarding legislative assemblies,] the number ought at most to be kept within a certain limit, in order to avoid the confusion and intemperance of a… — James Madison
Where constraint breaks people, and mediation makes fools of them, the seduction of power is what makes them love their oppression. Because of it, people… — Raoul Vaneigem
I have discovered the meaning of life. It resides in what I can wrest from each day that I live. — Nancy Thayer
We too could wrest iron from the bowels of the earth and fashion it into ships and machines. — Jose Clemente Orozco
History is largely a record of human struggle to wrest the land from nature, because man relies for sustenance on the products of the soil.… — Hugh Hammond Bennett
I have fought against the people of the North because I believed they were seeking to wrest from the South dearest rights. But I have… — Robert E. Lee
If I wish to wrest an advantage from the enemy, I must not fix my mind on that alone, but allow for the possibility of… — Du Mu
Let women be provided with living strength of their own. Let them have the means to attack the world and wrest from it their own… — Simone de Beauvoir
It seems to me that you are solving a problem which goes beyond the limits of physiology in too simple a way. Physiology has realized… — Alexander Herzen
PLUNDER, v. To take the property of another without observing the decent and customary reticences of theft. To wrest the wealth of A from B… — Ambrose Bierce
An artistic endeavour comes into the world naked, unnamed, and vulnerable. Every creative effort requires the artist to wrest something from nothingness, a purposive cosmos… — Peter London
Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations… — John Dewey
The government has convinced parents that at some point it's no longer their responsibility. And in fact, they force them, in many respects, to turn… — Rick Santorum
You'll wrest a burning sword from an angel, but you're afraid of bats?" "I'm not afraid of them. I just don't like them. They're...furry. Flying… — Kelley Armstrong
To be given dominion over another is a hard thing; to wrest dominion over another is a wrong thing; to give dominion of yourself to… — Toni Morrison
I raise my left arm and twist my neck down to rip off the pill on my sleeve. Instead my teeth sink into flesh. I… — Suzanne Collins
The opponent strikes you on your cheek, and you strike him on the heart by your amazing spiritual audacity in turning the other cheek. You… — E. Stanley Jones
Let me go!” I snarl at him, trying to wrest my arm from his grasp. “I can’t,” he says. — Suzanne Collins
Anger has its place, but it will not serve you here, the way of the warrior is the way of knowing. Of that knowledge requires… — Christopher Paolini
The digital revolution has wrest a little control away from corporate publishers and white, male, middle-aged critics, but the financial value put on the job… — Sara Sheridan
As soon as we can wrest from Nature the secret of the internal structure of the compounds produced by her, chemical science can then even… — Otto Wallach
As a man can drink water from any side of a full tank, so the skilled theologian can wrest from any scripture that which will… — Bhagavad Gita
I wrest the waters, fight Neptune's waters, sail through the sorrows of life's marauders. Unrelenting, often empty, sail on, sail on, sailor. — The Beach Boys
They that deny Christ to be God, must greatly wrest, or else deny the Scripture to be the Word of God. — Thomas Watson

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24 authors contributed a total of 25 Wrest Quotes as follows: