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“Here, my dear Lucy, hide these books. Quick, quick! Fling "Peregrine Pickle" under the toilette -throw "Roderick Random" into the closet -put "The Innocent Adultery" into "The Whole Duty of Man"; thrust "Lord Aimworth" under the sofa! cram "Ovid" behind the bolster; there -put "The Man of Feeling" into your pocket. Now for them.”

Men Book Whole Feelings Reading Behinds Lord He Man Duty Dear Innocent Pockets Closets Adultery Thrust Book Reading Fling Lucy Sofas Pickles

Author:Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

Book Next Week Consideration Afternoon Weekend Saturday Mundane Thrust Next Week Joy Of Reading Saturday Afternoon

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.”

People Success Born Achieve Humorous Mediocrity Mediocre Thrust

Author:Joseph Heller

“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.”

Source: Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)

“When one is true to oneself, when one is authentic, one becomes true to the evolutionary thrust for self-optimization that exists within oneself and within the universe. And that evolutionary thrust is a continuous unfolding process.”

Self Universe Process Oneself Thrust Unfolding Optimization True To Oneself

Author:Yasuhiko Kimura

“We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.”

May Achieve Climate Weather Thrust

Book:Selected Stories

Source: Selected Stories

“Many times man lives and dies between his two eternities: that of race and that of Soul... A brief parting from those dear is the worst man has to fear... Though grave diggers' toil is long... They but thrust their buried men back in the human mind again.”

Men Mind Humans Long Two Soul Dies Race Worst Eternity Dear Karma Graves Human Mind Buried Toil Parting Thrust

Book:Selected Poems And Four Plays

Source: Selected Poems And Four Plays

“So you can see what is happening in the New Testament. Worship is being significantly deinstitutionalized, delocalized, de-externalized. The whole thrust is being taken off of ceremony and seasons and places and forms and is being shifted to what is happening in the heart - not just on Sunday but every day and all the time in all of life.”

Heart Whole Form Taken Worship Happenings Seasons Sunday Testament Ceremony New Testament Thrust

Author:John Piper

“It was that period in the vernal quarter when we may suppose the Dryads to be waking for the season. The vegetable world begins to move and swell and the saps to rise, till in the completest silence of lone gardens and trackless plantations, where everything seems helpless and still after the bond and slavery of frost, there are bustlings, strainings, united thrusts, and pulls-all-together, in comparison with which the powerful tugs of cranes and pulleys in a noisy city are but pigmy efforts.”

Source: FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD (British Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel

“A spiritual sensibility encourages us to see ourselves as part of the fundamental unity of all being. If the thrust of the market ethos has been to foster a competitive individualism, a major thrust of many traditional religious and spiritual sensibilities has been to help us see our connection with all other human beings.”

Source: The Politics of Meaning: Restoring Hope and Possibility in an Age of Cynicism

“There is an innate decorum in man, and it is not fair to thrust Truth upon people when they don't expect it. Only the very generous are ready for Truth impromptu.”

People Men Truth Ready Fairs Generous Innate Thrust Not Fair Decorum

Book:INWARD HO!

Source: INWARD HO!

“I'm from Toronto. It's a lot more laid back. When you are thrust into different environments, there is an odd adaptation period. And then there are times when unfair, unkind, untrue things are written about you. That bothers me less now.”

Different Environment Written Periods Bother Odd Unfair Adaptation Thrust Back When Untrue Unkind Toronto Laid Back Different Environments

Author:Mike Myers

“The whole thrust of theatre is different, just because the writing is so much more respected in a play. Whereas in movies - and having been the writer, I can say from experience - the writer is lower down on the food chain.”

Writing I Can Different Play Whole Theatre Chains Thrust Food Chain

Author:Matt Damon

“I was really psyched about crooner types like Frank Sinatra or Scott Walker. Something that comes more from the stomach than the throat. There's an emotional thrust to singing that way that I wanted to try on my own. I can't really sing deep and strong like that, but I wanted to just aim in that direction.”

Way Trying I Can Wanted Strong My Own Emotional Type Singing Aim Throat Stomach Frank Thrust Walkers

Author:Panda Bear

“Only Experience Teaches You: You can't learn skiing by watching videos. They might help but you still need to find a place with snow, put your skis on, and thrust yourself down the mountain.”

Needs Stills Helping Might Teach Mountain Video Snow Thrust Skis Skiing

Author:Barry Moltz

“A lot of the time you see a warning, in the subway, or in a movie theater, the main thrust of the warning will be to not panic if there is an emergency. To listen to directions. Now that's a waste. They could have given you information, but you can see their expectation that you're going to screw up.”

Ifs Given Information Waste Expectations Theater Warning Panic Screws Emergencies Thrust Subway Screw Ups Movie Theater

Author:Amanda Ripley

“It's important in show business to have friends who understand the cut and thrust of everyday working life and the constant rejection.”

Important Shows Cutting Constant Everyday Rejection Show Business Thrust Working Life Constant Rejection

Author:Julian Ovenden

“Women being the weaker vessels, are ever thrust to the walls.”

Wall Vessel Thrust

Book:Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“Oh, good gigantic smile o' the brown old earth, This autumn morning! How he sets his bones To bask i' the sun, and thrusts out knees and feet. From the ripple to run over in its mirth”

Running Earth Morning Sun Feet Bones Knees Brown Autumn Thrust Ripple Mirth

Book:An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry

Source: An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry

“There were two, three or four French Revolutions. Like a multi-stage rocket today, the Revolution involved several successive explosions and propellant thrusts.”

Two Today Three Four Stage Revolution Involved Explosions Rockets Thrust French Revolution

Book:A History of Civilizations: 2

Source: A History of Civilizations: 2

“About two-thirds of the face of Marx is beard, a vast solemn wooly uneventful beard that must have made all normal exercise impossible. It is not the sort of beard that happens to a man, it is a beard cultivated, cherished, and thrust patriarchally upon the world.”

Men World Made Two Happens Faces Impossible Exercise Normal Thirds Beard Solemn Thrust

Book:H. G. WELLS Ultimate Collection: 120+ Science Fiction Classics, Novels & Stories; Including Scientific, Political and Historical Works: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, Modern Utopia, A Short History of the World, What Is Coming, The Story of the Last Trump…

Source: H. G. WELLS Ultimate Collection: 120+ Science Fiction Classics, Novels & Stories; Including Scientific, Political and Historical Works: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, Modern Utopia, A Short History of the World, What Is Coming, The Story of the Last Trump…

“Tragedy enlightens - and it must, in that it points the heroic finger at the enemy of man's freedom. The thrust for freedom is the quality in tragedy which exalts. The revolutionary questioning of the stable environment is what terrifies.”

Men Quality Enemy Environment Tragedy Fingers Revolutionary Heroic Stable Questioning Enlightening Thrust

Book:The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller

Source: The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller

“Bill Clinton, who, to his credit, has established a clear and consistent foreign policy, which is as follows: Whenever the president of the United States gets anywhere near any foreign head of state, living or dead, he gives that leader a big old hug. This has proven to be an effective way to get foreign leaders to do what we want: Many heads of state are willing to sign any random document that President Clinton thrusts in front of them, without reading it, just so he will stop embracing them.”

Source: Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus

“The proclamation of grace has its limits. Grace may not be proclaimed to anyone who does not recognize or distinguish or desire it... The world upon whom grace is thrust as a bargain will grow tired of it, and it will not only trample upon the Holy, but also will tear apart those who force it on them.”

World May Doe Desire Force Grows Grace Tears Holy Limits Tired Thrust Bargains Proclamation

Book:The Way to Freedom: 1935-1939, from the Collected Works of Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Source: The Way to Freedom: 1935-1939, from the Collected Works of Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Had it not been for the race problem early thrust upon me and enveloping me, I should have probably been an unquestioning worshipper at the shrine of the established social order and of the economic development into which I was born.”

Should Problem Order Social Born Race Economic Development Should Have Thrust Economic Development Social Order Shrines Worshippers

Author:W. E. B. Du Bois

“You cannot force spiritual things. A testimony is not thrust upon you; it grows. And a testimony is a testimony, and it should be respected, whether it is small or large. We become taller in our testimony like we grow in physical stature and hardly know it is happening, because it comes by growth.”

Knows Should Spiritual Force Grows Growth Happenings Testimony Thrust Stature

Author:Boyd K. Packer

“I, who had had my heart full for hours, took advantage of an early moment of solitude, to cry in it very bitterly. Suddenly a little hairy head thrust itself from behind my pillow into my face, rubbing its ears and nose against me in a responsive agitation, and drying the tears as they came.”

Heart Littles Moments Faces Hours Behinds Cry Tears My Heart Solitude Advantage Ears Noses Pillow Thrust Agitation

Author:Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“To be sure, Darwin's theory of evolution is imperfect. However, the fact that a scientific theory cannot yet render an explanation on every point should not be used as a pretext to thrust an untestable alternative hypothesis grounded in religion into the science classroom or to misrepresent well-established scientific propositions.”

Should Wells Facts Used Theory Evolution Alternatives Explanation Imperfect Classroom Grounded Propositions Hypothesis Thrust Pretext Scientific Theory Theory Of Evolution

Author:Jon Jones

“The idea of Socialism is at once grandiose and simple. . .We may say, in fact, that it is one of the most ambitious creations of the human spirit, . . .so magnificent, so daring, that it has rightly aroused the greatest admiration. If we wish to save the world from barbarism we have to refute Socialism, but we cannot thrust it carelessly aside.”

Ifs World Humans May Ideas Facts Spirit Wish Simple Creation Socialism Admiration Daring Ambitious Magnificent Human Spirit Thrust Save The World Barbarism Grandiose

Author:Ludwig von Mises

“If farmers become weak the country loses self-reliance but if they are strong, freedom also becomes strong. If we do not maintain our progress in agriculture, poverty cannot be eliminated from India.But our biggest poverty alleviation programme is to improve the living standard of our farmers. The thrust of our poverty alleviation programmes is on the uplift of the farmers.”

Ifs Self Country Strong Loses Poverty Progress Standards Weak India Uplifting Farmers Agriculture Self Reliance Reliance Thrust Programmes

Author:Rajiv Gandhi

“If you take psychedelics and the Internet and music and put all of that together you have the basis for a new community that is wider and deeper than you know. The people who are building the new machines, who are designing the new circuitry, who are writing the new code are ALL freaks. They work for capitalist dogs, of course, because we all do, but the creative thrust of these technologies is being driven by people just like you and me.”

People Ifs Knows Writing Together Courses Community Technology Creative Dog Design Building Like You Internet Machines Bases Deeper Driven Code Freak Capitalist Thrust

Author:Terence McKenna

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

Men Purpose Motivation Love Is Behinds Worthy Lifts Height Thrust

Author:Wilferd Peterson

“I've got things I have to do in fiction to sort of register my existence, before I kick the bucket, but it will never be my living and I know it. Plus it never moved fast enough for me and lacked cut and thrust. I need to be in the real show.”

Knows Needs Real Enough Shows Existence Fiction Cutting Moved Kicks Plus Thrust Register Buckets

Author:William Monahan

“We are at the moment looking at space as something to be entered by the tremendous thrust of a rocket because that is the attitude of attacking the unknown. And that causes us not to realize that we are already on the most magnificently equipped spaceship, which could hardly be improved upon. It has got a source of temperature and energy just at the right distance from it. It's beautifully equipped with oxygen, with food supplies, with all kinds of delightful things to do while on the journey.... and it's traveling through space at a colossal speed... and it's called the planet Earth.”

“When the death of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt thrust him suddenly into the Presidency in April of 1945 at one of the most critical moments of our history, he met that moment with courage and vision. His farsighted leadership in the postwar era has helped ever since to preserve peace and freedom in the world.”

World Moments President Vision Mets Critical Eras Preserves That Moment Presidency April Thrust Franklin Critical Moments Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1972

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1972

“I set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce - my main thrust was the body and its functions and malfunctions - the absurdity of the thing.”

Body Crosses Function Absurdity Thrust Malfunction

Author:Billy Connolly

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

Cynicism Thrust

Author:Jesse Jackson

“Long necks. The thrust of the head in a certain position. The way the fingers work, fabrics work. It's all part of my painting background.”

Way Long Certain Position Painting Fingers Backgrounds Necks Working It Fabric Thrust

Author:Lillian Bassman

“I assume there must be some kind of genetic thrust. My two grandmothers were very different, but both of them were frustrated musicians.”

Kind Two Different Musician Assuming Grandmother Frustrated Thrust

Author:Joni Mitchell

“Well, growing up in LA, things are kind of thrust in front of you. You're almost forced to grow up pretty fast, with experiences and stuff. Going to that school there were a lot of rich girls, a lot of partying, a lot of wild things. You're put in this environment where you're forced to wear a uniform. It was all girls, so you rebel naturally, I think. I don't know, I just kind of got inspiration from every day living and going to school.”

Thinking Knows Wells Kind Inspiration School Girl Grows Stuff Party Growing Up Rich Environment Growing Fronts Rebel Uniforms Thrust Wild Things Rich Girl

Author:Sarah Hudson

“I think that smoking is a very good thing to do - it's got the association with the Indians; it's a peaceable thing. But like much else that the Indians gave us, we abused the privilege. And so, in my case I must simply stop. I'm too old to smoke. But I do believe that nicotine provides a great creative thrust.”

Thinking Believe Cases Creative Good Things Very Good Privilege Smoke Things To Do Smoking Association Thrust Nicotine

Author:Van Dyke Parks

“It sounds superficially fair. But it presupposes that that there is something in Christian theology to be ignorant about. The entire thrust of my position is that Christian theology is a non-subject. It is empty. Vacuous. Devoid of coherence or content. I imagine that McGrath would join me in expressing disbelief in fairies, astrology and Thor's hammer. How would he respond if a fairyologist, astrologer or Viking accused him of ignorance of their respective subjects?”

“I'd done about 10 movies before I decided I wanted to make acting the main thrust of my career.”

Done Wanted Acting Careers Decided Thrust

Author:Jeff Bridges

“We should not feel so sorely grieved if no man who had not attained the full stature of a Webster, Clay, Van Buren, or Gerrit Smith could claim the right of the elective franchise. But to have drunkards, idiots, horse-racing, rum-selling rowdies, ignorant foreigners, and silly boys fully recognized, while we ourselves are thrust out from all the rights that belong to citizens, it is too grossly insulting to the dignity of woman to be longer quietly submitted to.”

Source: The Elizabeth Cady Stanton-Susan B. Anthony reader: correspondence, writings, speeches

“If I had criteria, it would just be that I want to play active people who can solve problems, not people who have things thrust in their lap and need somebody to solve their problems for them.”

People Ifs Want Needs Play Problem Solve Active Lap Criteria Thrust

Author:Mackenzie Davis

“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.”

States Sound Awareness Thrust Radiant

Author:Pattiann Rogers

“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.”

Crisis Thrust Midlife Midlife Crisis

Author:Moby

“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.”

Levels Inspire Fame Admire Thrust Unheard

Author:Matthew Lewis

“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.”

People World Way Want Book Matter Stories Able Knowing Picks Appreciate No Matter What Circles Merit Thrust Headlines Full Circle

Author:James Vance

“I taught. I lectured at universities. I spoke to my students. I spoke in certain public forums. But what I didn't do was respond to microphones being thrust in my face and saying, what is your relationship with Obama and are you an unrepentant terrorist?”

Faces Certain Students Taught University Terrorist Spokes Our Relationship Thrust Microphones Forums

Author:Bill Ayers