Quotes About Thrust

Far in the pillared darkThrush music went—Almost like a call to come inTo the dark and lament.But no, I was out for stars:I would not come in.I meant not even if asked,And I hadn't been.

stamped on the gas

I just try to see what happens when you put your feet on the accelerator.

HAND, n. A singular instrument worn at the end of the human arm and commonly thrust into somebody's pocket.

About the reason why scholars hold inclination towards Arabic as a heresy): [...] one must not accept the customs of a people whose language one loves, nor cover up small coups d'état with the gold plate of language, nor dupe young people and Maecenases into believing that one can fence as soon as one knows how to parry and thrust and hold the épée and body.

His heart was a catapult in his chest.

You must teach me someday how you do that,' he said, 'the way you thrust your worries aside and turn to practical matters. It must be a Bene Gesserit thing'. 'It's a female thing', she said.

The human being has reason. This enables him to conceive of truth- yet what he says or writes in learned books is always but a thrust in the direction of truth, it ever falls short of truth itself.

Movies such as 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' in 1939 to 'Dave' in 1993 portray Washington leaders as the ultimate Everymen - decent people just like you and me, only thrust onto greatness.

ALLONGE  (ALLO'NGE)   n.s.[allonge, Fr.]A pass or thrust with a rapier, so called from the lengthening of the space taken up by the fencer.

But history shows that logic launched from introspection alone lacks thrust, can travel only so far, and usually heads in the wrong direction.

Two forces pervade human life, the Gita says: the upward thrust of evolution and the downward pull of our evolutionary past.

Man and Height 7.7 million pounds of thrust pushing Apollo 16 up into the speechless oceans of space. Its exhaust plume disappeared about 4 to 5 miles up, and turning from the television I saw my baby son achieving a record 5 building bricks high. John Rice

By training his soldiers to lunge with their bayonets not at the charging Highlander in front of them, but at the one to their right as he raised his arm to strike and thus exposed himself to a lethal thrust, Cumberland now had the tactic that could counteract the violent shock of the clansmen's charge. His troops sensed for the first time that they could beat the Jacobites in a pitched battle.

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.

Our culture thrives on black-and-white narratives, clearly defined emotions, easy endings, and so, this thrust into complexity exhausts.

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

How can a song all about struggling with the afterglow of fame thrust someone into fame? How can a lyric like, 'I'm just a singer who already blew his shot,' give a singer another shot? I don't know... but it's funny.

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

It's frustrating sometimes: as an athlete, you're thrust into the spotlight, and you know, I think this team has always done a really amazing job of understanding that we have this incredible platform; let's do something good with it.

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.

Clinton saw himself much more as the steward of alliances and of consensus that moved in the right direction. He didn't see himself as someone who could change the overall thrust, I think, of global policy.

You can't just come up with an idea for a game and stick the drama on top. It all has to be one driving thrust.

There's this homogenization, this big sucking motion in dominant society, to absorb all the disparate elements that define the margin or define the culture or define those who are thrust outside the status quo.