“Those desires that do not bring pain if they are not satisfied are not necessary; and they are easily thrust aside whenever to satisfy them appears difficult or likely to cause injury.” IfsPainDesireCausesDifficultSatisfiedInjuryThrust Book:Letters: Principles Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings Translated, with an Introd. and Notes, by Russel M. Geor. Indianapolis Merrill Source: Letters: Principles Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings Translated, with an Introd. and Notes, by Russel M. Geor. Indianapolis Merrill
“The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own.” IfsThinkingFeelsHas BeensMomentsFactsFallForceEmotionMusicExerciseSpringOppositesBasesAddMusicalPatternsSensationsVoidComposerStableListenersIncapableTornDeliciousLaddersAnticipateThrustSkillful Author:Claude Levi-Strauss
“I thought what would be really just choice for a revamp and a reboot is 'The Greatest American Hero.' I think I'd be just that kind of perfect not prepared for this kind of thing, but thrust into circumstances he's not prepared for... that's another niche of mine. Unpreparedness. Not knowing what to do. I'm good at being that guy.” ThinkingKindWould BeGuyChoicesPerfectKnowingMinesHeroCircumstancesPreparedNot KnowingThrustThat GuyNicheKnowing What To DoAmerican Hero Author:Nathan Fillion
“... the death of the spirit which threatens every man unless he is conscious of the danger and has a real purpose which can keep it alive and enable it to thrust its way through the choking weeds and thorns to the air and to the sun” MenWayInspirationalRealSpiritPurposeSunAliveAirDangerConsciousEvery ManWeedThrustChokeThorns Author:Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper
“[I]n constitutional adjudication some steps, which when taken were thought to approach 'the verge,' have become the platform for yet further steps. A certain momentum develops in constitutional theory and it can be a 'downhill thrust' easily set in motion but difficult to retard or stop.” StatesCertainDifficultChurchStepsTakenTheoryApproachPlatformsMomentumThrustVergeRetard Author:Warren E. Burger
“Nations sometimes flourish by denying the crimes that brought them into being. Only when the original invasion, occupation, extermination or usurpation has been safely thrust into the political unconscious can sovereignty feel secure.” FeelsHas BeensSometimesPoliticalNationsCrimeOriginalsSecureUnconsciousOccupationSovereigntyInvasionThrustExterminationUsurpation Author:Terry Eagleton
“My father was a joyous, joyous spirit, he really was. He was a hedonist, that was just - he enjoyed life, thrust up to the elbows with it. He was a terrible father. I don't know that he was parented that well.” KnowsWellsSpiritFatherTerribleEnjoyedJoyousThrustElbowsHedonist Author:Carrie Fisher
“If the guidance failed or started to stray or went somewhere we didn't like or the ground didn't like, I could flip a switch, and I could control seven, over seven and a half million pounds of thrust with this handle and fly the thing to the Moon myself.” IfsHalfMillionsMoonSevenHandleGuidancePoundsThrustFlip Author:Gene Cernan
“Nirvana was like that- Nirvana was like the only band to come out of that- it was like the same thing, Seattle was like this whole scene and it was like this big scene that was thrust upon America.” WholeBigsAmericaSceneBandThrustSeattle Author:Jon Fishman
“I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.” ThinkingChildrenYoungThreeObviousTeenagerMaturityReverseThrustConfrontationHaving Children Author:Rachel Johnson