Quotes of: Wrested Keyword

There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

Ann Landers

We too could wrest iron from the bowels of the earth and fashion it into ships and machines.

Jose C. Orozco

We must not wait for favours from Nature; our task is to wrest them from her.

Ivan Michurin

She was no longer wresting with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.

George Eliot

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 of experience its own full and unique meaning.

John Dewey

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wrested from nature by an active and elaborate technique of inquiry.

Reconstruction in Philosophy

For I'll keep my humanity, though I did not keep my promises. ... and Love shall not be wrested from my veins.

Mornings in Jenin

Of all my seeking this is all my gain: No agony of any mortal brain Shall wrest the secret of the life of man; The Search has taught me that the Search is vain.

Omar Khayyam

Let me go!” I snarl at him, trying to wrest my arm from his grasp. “I can’t,” he says.

Suzanne Collins

Since by the ordination of God I both am called and am Emperor of the Romans, in nothing but name shall I appear to be ruler if the control of the Roman city be wrested from my hands.

Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor

According to this way of arguing, there will be no true principles in the world; for there are none but what may be wrested and perverted to serve bad purposes, either through the weakness or wickedness of men.

Jonathan Mayhew

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 surpass Nature by producing compounds as variations of the natural ones, which the living cell is unable to cons...

Otto Wallach

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 another is a wicked thing.

A Mercy

Our age has built itself vast reservoirs of power / formless as the straining energy that it wrests from the earth.

The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

Multiculturalism may well be our saviour, wresting us out from the straitjacket of our history, thrusting the old continent into an environment where other ethnicities, less cynical and more positive, will play a big role in its future.

Loretta Napoleoni

The unknown characters of writing seem to be endowed with an evil of life of their own as though sentient, and fain would wrest themselves forth from the parchment and wreak mischief on whomsoever gazes upon them.

E. Hoffmann Price

What is nobler than a man wresting and wringing his bread from the stubborn soil by the sweat of his brow and the break of his back for his wife and children!

William Morris Hunt

Every fulfilled wish we wrest from the world is really like alms that keep the beggar alive today so that he can starve again tomorrow.

The World as Will and Representation, Vol 1

If we wish to wrest an advantage from the enemy, we must not fix our minds on that alone, but allow for the possibility of the enemy also doing some harm to us, and let this enter as a factor into our calculations.

The Art of War

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 of the writer and the misconceptions around that make it extremely difficult to enter the pr...

Sara Sheridan