Thrust Quotes - Page 7

• I think that happens to a lot of people who find themselves thrust into the spotlight and becoming famous before they recognize what's happening to them. Life becomes a little distorted for them.

  Linda D. Thompson

  Thinking, People, Spotlight

  Source: magazine.foxnews.com

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• The attraction of power we take for granted in politics.. But in economics...the thrust...is for pecuniary return, for money. And I have always felt that denies in the economic world a very large part of the motivation.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Motivation, World, Return

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• From my perspective, it appears that a great thrust of research on health and longevity is pointing towards improving our immune system - that within an empowered immune system are the health solutions and longevity answers we're looking for.

  David Wolfe

  Perspective, Research, Answers

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• Some have greatness thrust upon them, but not lately.

  Frank Dane

  Greatness

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• But knowing that the world had come full circle to our Depression story didn't change the way we worked on it, or encourage us to change our thrust. I want people to be able to pick up this book in the future no matter what's going on in the world, and appreciate it on its own merits, not for any perceived winks at the headlines.

  James Vance

  Book, Circles, Knowing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The thing that inspires me about Daniel Radcliffe and the thing that I admire the most about him is that he's had a level of fame thrust upon him that's relatively unheard of.

  Matthew Lewis

  Inspire, Levels, Fame

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• The midlife crisis you're having at 30 is indulgent, but the midlife crisis you have at 45 is to an extent thrust upon you.

  Moby

  Midlife, Crisis, Midlife Crisis

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

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• When the music created by the sounds and ordering of the words matches the thrust of the meanings of the words, then a radiant state of awareness can occur.

  Pattiann Rogers

  Sound, Awareness, States

  Interview with Carolyn Perry, Wayne Zade, poems.com. 2009.

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• What Women's Lib might achieve if their 'consciousness raising' - or in plain English, brainwashing- campaign succeeds is a society whose members have identical roles but are perpetually at war with themselves; a society of males made neurotic by suppressed masculinity, of females made miserable by having masculine roles thrust upon them that contradict their feminine impulses.

  Arianna Huffington

  War, Might, Succeed

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• Love gives us copious potions of delight, Of pain and ecstasy, and peace and care; Love leads us upward, to the mountain height, And, like an angel, stands beside us there; Then thrusts us, demon-like, in some abyss: Where, in the darkness of despair, we grope, Till, suddenly, Love greets us with a kiss And guides us back to flowery fields of hope.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Love, Pain, Heart

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.238, Jazzybee Verlag

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• What can be better than to get out a book on Saturday afternoon and thrust all mundane considerations away till next week.

  C. S. Lewis

  Book, Next Week, Afternoon

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• Youth is harmed by having wisdom thrust upon it. Youth must gather wisdom slowly, in laughter and tears.

  Mrs. Patrick Campbell

  Wisdom, Laughter, Tears

  Mrs. Patrick Campbell (1922). “My Life and Some Letters”

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• I would hate to be thrust into the middle of a big film and not deliver. There's young actors and they're put into these central roles and they're commanding armies - but they can't quite pull it off. I'd much rather do it in small steps and build it from there.

  Paddy Considine

  Hate, Army, Small Steps

  "And the winner is ..." by Craig McClean, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2005.

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• The Bush people have no right to speak for my father, particularly because of the position he's in now (Alzheimer's Syndrome). Yes, some of the current policies are an extension of the '80s. But the overall thrust of this administration is not my father's - these people are overly reaching, overly aggressive, overly secretive, and just plain corrupt. I don't trust these people.

  Ron Reagan

  Father, Alzheimer's, People

  "Reagan blasts Bush". Interview with David Talbot, www.salon.com. April 15, 2003.

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• At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you’ll have to find the inner motivation to search for new ideas on your own. With any luck at all, you’ll never need to take an idea and squeeze a punchline out of it, but as bright, creative people, you’ll be called upon to generate ideas and solutions all your lives. Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.

  Bill Watterson

  Motivation, School, Play

  "Some thoughts on the real world by one who glimpsed it and fled". Bill Watterson's commencement speech at the Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, www.graduationwisdom.com. May 20, 1990.

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• The whole thrust of science and the medical profession is to try and prevent it from happening, to try to prolong life, to keep you from dying, to keep you from getting older, to rejuvenate you. I mean, that's everybody's wish. The fountain of youth is everybody's sought-after thing.

  Woody Allen

  Mean, Wish, Getting Older

  Interview with Douglas McGrath, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 1, 2008.

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• Many Americans who supported the initial thrust of civil rights, as represented by the Brown v. Board of Education decision and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, later felt betrayed as the original concept of equal individual opportunity evolved toward the concept of equal group results.

  Thomas Sowell

  Opportunity, Rights, Decision

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• In designing Supergirl, I wanted to embrace the past but more importantly, thrust her into the street-style action hero of today.

  Colleen Atwood

  Hero, Past, Design

  " First Photos of Supergirl Revealed" by Matt Fowler, www.ign.com. March 06, 2015.

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• Over a wide field of our economy it is still the better course to rely on the nineteenth century's "hidden hand" than to thrust clumsy bureaucratic fingers into its sensitive mechanism. In particular, we cannot afford to damage its mainspring, freedom of competitive enterprise.

  John James Cowperthwaite

  Hands, Fields, Damage

  Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (p. 133), March 30, 1962.

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• Receptivity and sensitiveness are what makes one's behaviour endearing and enriching. Do not try to thrust your likes and dislikes on others. Try instead, to find out what those around would expect from you and where you can possibly contribute. Rather than feeling conflict or confrontation every time, look for and generate greater notes of harmony.

  Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

  Likes And Dislikes, Feelings, Trying

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• I knew, even at eight, that the confusion of values thrust upon me by parents, teachers, other children, nannies, camp counselors, and others would only worsen as I grew up. The years would add complications and steer me into more and more impenetrable tangles of rights and wrongs, desirables and undesirables. I had already seen enough to know that.

  Jean Liedloff

  Teacher, Children, Years

  Jean Liedloff (1985). “The Continuum Concept: Allowing Human Nature to Work Successfully”, p.5, Da Capo Press

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• Grit is the grain of character. It may generally be described as heroism materialized,--spirit and will thrust into heart, brain, and backbone, so as to form part of the physical substance of the man.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Character, Heart, Men

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1875). “Success and Its Conditions”, p.58

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• If you have a thrust to make at your friend's expense, do it gracefully, it is all the more effective. Some one says the reproach that is delivered with hat in hand is the most telling.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Hands, Hats, Expenses

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• People speak of the fear of the blank canvas as though it is a temporary hesitation, a trembling moment of self-doubt. For me it was more like being abducted from my bed by a clown, thrust into a circus arena with a wicker chair, and told to tame a pissed-off lion in front of an expectant crowd.

  Hannah Kent

  Self, People, Doubt

  Hannah Kent (2013). “Burial Rites”, p.234, Pan Macmillan

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• I visualize the day that tridents and pentagrams are thrust into the sky from church roofs instead of crosses.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Sky, Church, Crosses

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