Quotes of: Thrust Keyword

Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.

John W. Gardner

Proximo: [holding up a sword] Thrust this into another man's flesh, and they will applaud and love you for that. You may even begin to love them [thrusts] Proximo: for that.

Gladiator

Within your culture as a whole, there is in fact no significant thrust toward global population control. The point to see is that there never will be such a thrust so long as you're enacting a story that says the gods made the world for man. For as l...

Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

There is no power in cynicism. There is no forward thrust in cynicism.

Jesse Jackson

We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.

O. Henry

Some have greatness thrust upon them, but not lately.

Frank Dane

I leave the hip thrusts to Michael Jackson.

Justin Bieber

Her abdomen clenched as he thrust hard once, filling her completely. Surprising her, he didn't start thrusting, but remained still inside her as he continued kissing her. She could kiss the sexy man for hours, be consumed by the taste and feel of him...

Retribution

Nobody can understand the greatness of the thirteenth century, who does not realize that it was a great growth of new things produced by a living thing. In that sense it was really bolder and freer than what we call the renaissance, which was a resur...

Saint Thomas Aquinas

There's been a lot thrust on my shoulders at a very young age.

LeAnn Rimes

It's a pelvis thrust, not a pelvic wiggle.

Enthralled: Paranormal Diversions

In 1995, I was thrust into the role of reluctant, flag-waving feminist and emotionally-focused artist/advocate.

Alanis Morissette

In the molten fire where he lay he could watch the slow machinations of eternity, the cosmic miracle of each second being born, eggshaped, silverplated, phallic, time thrusting itself gleaming through the worn and worthless husk of the microsecond pr...

The Long Home

The thrust of continuous action is the firewood which fuels motivation.

The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success

I didn't want to be a catcher. It was thrust upon me, as they say in the classics.

Mickey Cochrane

I've become one of those women who thrusts her engagement finger out all the time.

Katherine Parkinson

Magneto wants to cope with the difficulties thrust upon him by society and by his own nature.

Ian Mckellen

Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.

David Bowie

I don't think you can ease yourself into theater. I just thrust myself into it.

LaTanya Richardson

It's important in show business to have friends who understand the cut and thrust of everyday working life and the constant rejection.

Julian Ovenden

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

William Shakespeare