Recoils From Quotes

#1. Even if you don't mind Romneycare, or the abortion flip-flop, or any of the rest, there's a more basic problem: He's not a natural campaigner, and on the stump he instinctively recoils from any personal connection with the voters.

Mark Steyn

#2. We are victims of censorship within when we do not let ourselves think the thoughts which our flesh recoils from, or let conscience speak that which the heart feels to be unacceptable, or when we give ourselves excellent reasons for not participating in this grand drama of our interconnected lives.

Ben Okri

#3. Thy soul is by vile fear assailed, which oft so overcasts a man, that he recoils from noblest resolution, like a beast at some false semblance in the twilight gloom.

Dante Alighieri

#4. It is not society itself that the Epicurean recoils from; it is this society of unceasing struggle for more and more.

Luke Slattery

#5. It is only the intellect that can be thoroughly and hideously wicked. It can forget everything in the attainment of its ends. The heart recoils; in its retired some drops of childhood's dew still linger, defying manhood's fiery noon.

James Russell Lowell

#6. Hate to sound sleazy, but tease me, I don't want it if it's that easy

Tupac Shakur

#7. They would come down in Mississippi, they hired me as a talent scout. And I would go all over Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, and find out different artists for them.

Ike Turner

#8. Maxine recoils, only partly out of the classic accountant's allergy to real folding money

Thomas Pynchon

#9. Not surprisingly, the insurance lobby recoils in horror at the prospect of automatic coverage ( including, when it was first proposed, Social Security), no matter how efficient it may be. Automatic coverage eliminates sales commissions and profit.

Andrew Tobias

#10. He recoils at the sight of me. Are they suppose to do that?

Andrew Davidson

#11. Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.

John Milton

#12. Satire recoils whenever charged too high; round your own fame the fatal splinters fly.

Edward Young

#13. To embrace the contingency of one's life is to embrace one's fate as an ephemeral but sentient being. As Nietzsche claimed, one can come to love that fate. But to do so one must first embrace it, though one instinctively recoils at such a prospect.

Stephen Batchelor

#14. Violence recoils on the violent.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#15. It is hard, if not impossible, to snub a beautiful woman - they remain beautiful and the snub recoils.

Winston Churchill

#16. He for himself weaves woe who weaves for others woe, and evil counsel on the counselor recoils.

Hesiod

#17. It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.

Ramana Maharshi

#18. The stone often recoils on the head of the thrower.

Elizabeth I

#19. I do not walk away in the face of adversity and never have.

Stevie Nicks

#20. Many of us don't realize that we have a choice about which aspect of ourselves we will use as the foundation upon which we build our lives.

Debbie Ford

#21. All those instances to be found in history, whether real or fabulous, of a doubtful public spirit, at which morality is perplexed, reason is staggered, and from which affrighted Nature recoils, are their chosen and almost sole examples for the instruction of their youth.

Edmund Burke

#22. He is immunized against all dangers: one may call him a scoundrel, parasite, swindler, profiteer, it all runs off him like water off a raincoat. But call him a Jew and you will be astonished at how he recoils, how injured he is, how he suddenly shrinks back: 'I've been found out.

Unknown

#23. The Ambrose Malachai will never be forgotten. But it's up to you as to how he'll always be remembered.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#24. The writing of poetry is a chancy business, it's currency solitude and loss, its tools coffee and too much wine, its hours midnight, dawn, and dusk, and unlike other trade the hours asleep are not time off.

Keith Miller

#25. Grace always and only consists of what will help someone come home to the Father.

John Ortberg

#26. Buhari is a child crawling at 72, he has nothing to offer

Patience Jonathan

#27. Crime oft recoils upon the author's head.

Seneca The Younger

#28. No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the sender of it.

St. Jerome