Recoils Quotes

#1. 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

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

Seneca The Younger

#3. Love is not a doctrine, Peace is not an international agreement. Love and peace are beings who live as possibilities in us.

Mary Caroline Richards

#4. 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

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

Luke Slattery

#6. 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

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

Elizabeth I

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

Ramana Maharshi

#9. Strange that in the day of tumult, it should be something so innocuous as a dribble of water that prompts a person to tears.

Kate Morton

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

Hesiod

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

Winston Churchill

#12. Violence recoils on the violent.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#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. Emma wanted a real man's hands on her body. Big and rough hands belonging to a strong, tough man who would grab her and throw her onto a bed where he'd spread her thighs wide, yank her head back by the hair, and kiss her breathless while loving her until she was senseless.

Cat Johnson

#15. All it takes is Harry Reid saying a friend told him [Mitt] Romney hadn't paid his taxes in ten years and it's over. But these kinds of things aren't gonna work on [Donald] Trump.

Rush Limbaugh

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

Edward Young

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

John Milton

#18. As to the kind of truth one finds in books, it is a truth that enables us sometimes to discern what things are not, without ever enabling us to discover what they are.

Anatole France

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

Andrew Davidson

#20. 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

#21. 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

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

Thomas Pynchon

#23. 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

#24. A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.

Samuel Butler

#25. And action is the only remedy to indifference, the most insidious danger of all.

Elie Wiesel

#26. This is serious business, sex, violence, and rock and roll.

John Mellencamp

#27. 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

#28. What? Really? And I thought I was just emotionally withdrawn." She pulled her feet up, hugging her knees. "I'm also incapable going to be your next brilliant observation.

Marissa Meyer

#29. 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