Quotes About Thrust

Solid-fuel rockets can't easily be shut down on command.

I'm sorry I thrust so much on you at once. I'm not known for subtlety. My delicate side wore away many years ago.

The dramatic premise is what the screenplay is about; it provides the dramatic thrust that drives the story to its conclusion.

Love happened. Love came to show you that you could be more than you could ever imagine, because love forced you out of the narrows of yourself and thrust you into a vastness that stretched from one end of time to the other. Nothing mattered except being in the presence of love, the greatest beauty of all.

Some men acheive insignificance. Others have insignificance thrust upon them.

an insuppressible power drive,

We are all, whether we admit it or not, waiting for the end of the world, as though it were not a world of our own making but a hell into which we had been thrust by a malevolent fate.

Willpower is a concentration of force. You gather up all your energy and make a massive thrust forward.

Glory and curiosity are the scourges of the soul; the last prompts us to thrust our noses into everything, the other forbids us to leave anything doubtful and undecided.

The deep space transport uses a new type of propulsion system to send astronauts through space, called solar electric propulsion. The huge solar panels capture sunlight and convert it to electricity. This is used to strip away the electrons from a gas (like xenon), creating ions. An electric field then shoots these charged ions out one end of the engine, creating thrust. Unlike chemical engines, which can only fire for a few minutes, ion engines can slowly accelerate for months or even years.

Love is the dynamic motivation behind every worthy purpose; it is the upward thrust that lifts men to the heights.

You've got to keep things flying.

Mabel said. "Doesn't it seem unlikely that every one of them were saints? And what's the thrust here, that we can't mourn the flawed?

Some lines are born quotations, some are made quotations, and some have "quotation" thrust upon them.

then rapidly shoving it straight out from him, with the fixed bayonet of his pointed finger darted full at the object.

The rural Vietnamese was not regarded simply as a pawn in a power struggle but as the active element in the thrust. He was the thrust.

She drew a long, deep breath, then surged forward, sword's point extended.

I reclined against my sofa, and delivered the final thrust of the needle to his heart.

Power was building up around him, living, writhing, hissing power.

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

But surely it is the gist that matters; I am, after all, telling you a history, and in history, as I suspect you—an American—will agree, it is the thrust of one's narrative that counts, not the accuracy of one's details.

Traditions are born by the power of an initial thrust that hurls acts and ideas across the centuries

The act of metaphor then was a thrust at truth and a lie, depending where you were: inside, safe, or outside, lost.

The act of metaphor then was a thrust at truth and lie, depending where you were: inside, safe, or outside, lost.