Quotes of: Thrust Keyword

We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity.

Raoul Vaneigem

I want to be known as 'The Big Shakespeare.' It was Shakespeare that said, 'Some men are born great, some achieve greatness, some have greatness thrust upon them.'

Shaquille O'Neal

My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.

Al Pacino

He thrust into me as if he were trying to climb into my soul.

The Dark Light of Day

Living life at a young age is like being a sponge thrust into the ocean. You absorb what's around you. If you're around people who are supportive and positive, that's how you look at the world.

Freddie Prinze, Jr.

The whole thrust of modern art, as far as I understand it, is expanding the role of the artist as a kind of esthetician, someone who actually spends his time, is trained in a way to deal with qualities.

Robert Irwin

If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, —that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death.

1984

Some are born mad, some achieve madness, and some have madness thrust upon 'em.

The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls

If it had been great sex I doubt I'd remember he tooted between thrusts.

Icing on the Cake

Always remember, difficult situations are thrust upon those who have the power to influence events.

The Leopard Stratagem

A bolt that raised her heart to blazing height And made the vertical the very thrust of hope, And found its path at last (Slow work of Grace).

Selected Poems

Some people are born to weirdness,” Jerry said, “and others have weirdness thrust upon them.

Pants on Fire

In other words, it's one of those books you thrust on your partner with an incredulous cry of "This is me!

The Polysyllabic Spree

Some are born weird, some achieve it, others have weirdness thrust upon them.

To the Hilt

I suppose being quite young and being thrust quite dramatically into a large public arena skewered my vision of what it means to live and be a part of something.

Orlando Bloom

Remember that mindsets can not be changed through force and coercion. No idea can ever be forcibly thrust upon any one.

Pervez Musharraf

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

At an unprecedented time with the worst attack ever on our soil, our President displayed extraordinary determination, leadership and resolve when history was thrust upon him and the United States.

Olympia Snowe

We decided that the environment was an integral part of our policies and the political thrust of our government. We gave it the priority and we sustained it with the money required to make it happen.

Brian Mulroney

God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in it.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

We haven't sat down with Scott and Caroline and said, Now you realize that there's X amount of pounds of thrust. And this can happen and that can happen.

Christa McAuliffe