I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
The common people will let it go, oh yes. They will sell liberty for a quieter life. That is why they must be prodded, prodded.
A few alligators are naturally of the vicious type and inclined to resent it when you prod them with a stick. You can find out which ones these are by prodding them.
You were torturing a cat," she says. "With a freaking prod." "A prod I built myself in metal shop," he says. "But of course you never mention that.
Some of us have to fight. There are great traditions of liberty to defend. I am no partisan man. Where I see the infamy I seek to erase it. Party names mean nothing. The tradition of liberty means all. The common people will let it go, oh yes. They w...
A commander in chief with military experience might be able to prod a conservative military into thinking more imaginatively.
Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.
We're not going to create a more equal society by not prodding at it, are we?
Working with the media remains an effective and essential way to raise issues, educate the public, and prod policy-makers and corporate leaders to change for the better.
[Your] dream will challenge, prod and haunt you until you surrender to its call.
I don't know what the problem with Capitol is. Some one's got to wake 'em up. Prod 'em a little bit.
In the case of my husband, we found that facing a life-threatening illness prodded us to make a dramatic change in our lives.
I think it's always good for the author to stay a good cattle prod's distance from the actual moviemaking.
The way I was brought up, there was a little bit of prodding to do something more practical, and I wasted a lot of time trying to be a practical person.
Churches we build only by our own efforts and not in the strength of the Spirit will quickly collapse when we don't push and prod people along.
Tyranny is increasingly unsustainable in this post-cold-war era. It is doomed to failure. But it must be prodded to exit the stage with a whimper - not the bang that extremists long for.
Julie: I know I'm pretty and I use it. I just guess I shouldn't have gone to Dr. Brewster's office so late. Dorothy Michaels: Well, no, that's not true. You know, Dr. Brewster has tried to seduce several nurses on this ward, always claiming to be in ...
This is the worst of our ways of remembering--this tendency to prod the crust of anecdote in the hope of releasing a gush of piping-hot symbolism.
I savor life. When you have anything that threatens life... it prods you into stepping back and really appreciating the value of life and taking from it what you can.
Calling out people for not voting, what experts term 'public shaming,' can prod someone to cast a ballot.
It's different when you're an actor and playing a part, but when it's just you, you feel immensely vulnerable have strangers prodding and prying.
