Top 422 Thrust Quotes & Sayings

So I took the bright red stick and at the center of the nation's hoop I thrust it in the earth.

I got thrust into some great things when I was really young.

Never thrust your sickle into another's corn.

Fame was initially this kind of blunt tool that was thrust into my hands very young.

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

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.

The law is not thrust upon man; it rests deep within him, to waken when the call comes.

From early childhood, my thrust was to get into the movies.

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

Photography is like fencing. You must keep your distance, wait, and then thrust.

Magneto wants to cope with the difficulties thrust upon him by society and by his own nature.

Some have greatness thrust upon them, but not lately.

Why thrust your kid into that? You try to protect them from all the bad people out there.

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

My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.

There's been a lot thrust on my shoulders at a very young age.

Thrust your head into the public street, to gaze on Christian fools with varnish'd faces.

In other words, it's one of those books you thrust on your partner with an incredulous cry of "This is me!

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

Some are born to fail. Others have it thrust upon them.

I feel for those 19-year-olds who get thrust into the limelight that young.

Anthropocentrism is simply irrational. And yet this is the thrust of much of our traditional religious thought and teaching, particularly in the West.

Where there's a chase or whatever, it's not being thrust into it.

We risk great peril if we kill off this spirit of adventure, for we cannot predict how and in what seemingly unrelated fields it will manifest itself. A nation that loses its forward thrust is in danger, and one of the most effective ways to retain that thrust is to keep exploring possibilities. The sense of exploration is intimately bound up with human resolve, and for a nation to believe that it is still committed to a forward motion is to ensure its continuance.

Thrust the sword into the dark

Some people may have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them. They achieve it. They do not achieve it unwittingly, by “doin' what comes naturally”; and they don't stumble into it in the course of amusing themselves. All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose.

I was thrust into the spotlight and didn't really know what I was doing. The opportunity was amazing but I wasn't ready for any of it.

Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.

The thrust of continuous action is the firewood which fuels motivation.

It is the habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what they do not desire

I don't think you can ease yourself into theater. I just thrust myself into it.

When you're thrust into litigation, you obviously have to make sure you're prepared to deal with that.

I resist and resent the idea of California as a metaphor. It's something thrust upon us, usually by people in the East.

I have thrust myself into this maze, Haply to wive and thrive as best I may.

I didn't want to be a cheerleader, and when you're young and you're blonde that's kind of thrust upon you whether you like it or not.

I don't like to fall short. It's tough. Just make the right play when I'm open, and I'll thrust to the rim and be aggressive.

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

I feel like I've forcefully been thrust into the tech world, and I've enjoyed every minute of it.

That is why we may say that the historical development of capitalism has involved the thrust towards the commodification of everything.

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.

If I were to splay you out on my desk and thrust my fingers into you right now, I think I’d find different.

And the basic sort of thrust of Star Trek being about equality and tolerance and things I believe in deeply.

Thurst [thrust] out nature with a croche [crook], yet woll she styll runne back agayne.

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.

The concept of karma is a beautiful concept in Sanskrit. The whole idea of karma is that every being has an innate tendency - the karma of ice is to be cold, the karma of fire is to burn, the karma of the trees is to grow and bear fruit. In the same way, a human has a certain thrust. What I've realized is that my thrust is to be in the world, like in the world of business.

Within your culture as a whole, there is in fact no significant thrust toward global population control. The point to see is that there never will be such a thrust so long as you're enacting a story that says the gods made the world for man. For as long as you enact that story, Mother Culture will demand increased food production today- and promise population control tomorrow.

History has thrust something upon me from which I cannot turn away.

Most of these who are thrust into combat soon find it impossible to maintain the mythic perception of war.

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

Celebrities choose fame. Royals have it thrust on them.

I choose to worship not believing in God and government should not thrust a religious idea down my throat.

It is sad when a particular group of people, no matter what they are, are able to... thrust their way of life on a society.

The upward thrust of evolution as part of the design becomes something to preserve and revere.

The world upon whom grace is thrust as a bargain will grow tired of it.

The iPhone was such a phenomenon that even the humble journalists chosen for an early look were thrust into a spotlight.

Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.

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

The world rolls under the long thrust of his heel. Over the cage floor the horizons come.

Thou you thrust your dagger at my eye, I will not flinch.

Remember that mindsets can not be changed through force and coercion. No idea can ever be forcibly thrust upon any one.