Be not afraid of greatness: some men are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them.
William Shakespeare
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The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.
Agnes Repplier
Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense, differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit: and its methods differ from those of common sense only as far as the guardsman's cut and thrust differ from the manner in which a savage wields his club.
Thomas H. Huxley
Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of a clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of decline and decay.
Eric Hoffer
Cycle after cycle, like the ticks of a clock, we get closer and closer to the point where one of these mega-thrust earthquakes are going to occur like happened in Indonesia last year. You can almost look at these slip events as ticks of that clock.
Bill Steele
IT managers need to understand interoperability is going to be an important thrust for the future, and make sure [that] the old works for the new.
Raju Rishi
Most people are thrust into executive positions unprepared.
Dave Miller
This is a huge thrust for us in conjunction with Yahoo!'s enterprise thrust, and we're really happy about that relationship.
Richard Pierce
While White House aides can provide familiar talking points on gestures of cooperation across party lines, the fact of the matter is on all three occasions, the principal thrust of Bush's policies was toward polarization rather than conciliation. We are now living in the shadow of nearly five years in which that has been the dominant political message coming out of the White House.
William Galston
Towns get hammered with exorbitant increases in special education costs year to year. Another significant problem is the continued lack of full funding needed for the No Child Left Behind Act. More and more of the burden is being thrust on property tax payers and towns.
Kevin Maloney
It is doubtful whether or not the Ministers appointed have the capacity, experience, knowledge and, most importantly, sufficient time to do justice to the enormous responsibility thrust upon them in governing the affairs of the entities.
Rainer Ritter
The main thrust behind the program is to get communities involved in their resource.
Kevin Kading
The basic thrust of this whole thing is right on target.
Chuck Robinson
Donna was not in the rescue business. This was kind of thrust upon her. All the birds that were evacuated to the Lamar-Dixon convention center and Louisiana State University were later taken to her house, and she now has almost 300 birds.
Jinx Scogin
Braddock's road, this brilliant thrust into the wilderness, became the road for people moving into the frontier.
Frank Cassell
The law is not thrust upon man; it rests deep within him, to waken when the call comes.
Martin Buber
With one stroke, ... this article will take the entire reputation of the New York Herald Tribune and thrust it down into the gutter, along with ...
William Shawn
Last year, we had great leaders, but they're gone now and we've all been thrust into different roles. We've grown up from the experience. Those six [regular-season] losses helped us. We needed to experience that. We didn't want to lose, but we had to learn from those experiences to help us get where we are today. We lost in so many different ways and it makes you grow up.
Taurean Green
Nic is ironclad when it comes to defense, it is really hard to get points against him. He has also improved his offensive thrust and his net play has been phenomenal.
Jim Daugherty
The primary thrust of the research has been with cars. But the (fuel cell) technology can also be used in remote power systems and future uses for cell phones, computers and other batteries.
Robert Boehm
Most may have already factored-in improved economic data, starting with government's firm thrust to balance the budget.
Grace Cerdenia
It is stern work, it is perilous work to thrust your hand in the sun And pull out a spark of immortal flame to warm the hearts of men.
Joyce Kilmer
Sending a man to the Moon? It would be a one-way ticket if we do it now, given the thrust of our rockets at present is not strong enough.
Luan Enjie
On the Catholic priesthood: I refuse to consider anything said to me about saving my soul by any man who spends all his time with one hand on the Bible and his other hand thrust down the pants of an adolescent child. I don't want to hear it.
Anthony Beal
So the whole thrust of any kind of reportage of the Royal Family, certainly in the tabloids, it may have been intrusive in terms of the way you define it, but it was certainly very laudatory and it really maintained and expanded the fairy tale.
Andrew Morton
He'd thrust his chin out and make gulping noises. Then he would take his fist and punch his chin. It was terrible to see my 6-year-old do that.
Kelly Shariff
Well, I think we're getting what we want, we're getting the information that's in it and getting the reasons why there's a big difference between the attorney general and the FBI director and that's the main thrust of our hearing and everything else to find out why there's this big difference and so the committee knows, the Congress knows and the American people know.
Dan Burton
Some have greatness thrust upon them, but not lately.
Frank Dane
The struggle is confused; our knight wins by no clean thrust of lance or sword, but the dragon somehow poops out, and decent democracy is victor.
Norman Thomas
Day labor has been thrust into the public consciousness, but we're concerned that the debate has gone on without an understanding of what gives rise to the phenomenon or what the many downsides are to work in this field.
Abel Valenzuela
This year the thrust is going to be on 'Advantage India' or why India is superior to the other alternatives which may be considered by prospective clients.
Sangeeta Gupta
Clearly we need to do everything we can to reduce the impact of aviation on people who live near airports and our project is looking at ways of keeping the aircraft higher for longer which will keep the noise further away and also at lower thrust settings as they're coming in to land.
Paul Collins
I'm just a little bit concerned about, going forward, whether they can achieve a growth record that is going to have more of a thrust in the U.S. markets.
David Menlow
The main thrust of [Small Business Accounting 2006] is a product geared toward meeting the needs of the owner/manager of the small company, in terms of their business management requirements.
James Utzschneider
HAND, n. A singular instrument worn at the end of the human arm and commonly thrust into somebody's pocket.
Ambrose Bierce
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.
Levi Strauss
The first officer reached over and pulled the thrust reverser switch. He also moved his seat forward to help the captain apply maximum foot-pedal braking.
Keith Holloway
Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.
Joseph Heller
I think the real thrust of this is the manner of public access.
Doug Weaver
He grabbed the knife as she thrust it at him.
Brian Steckler
The events of the past month along the Gulf Coast have thrust the issue of energy supplies back into the spotlight.
John W. Warner
The thrust of the budget is to improve the standard of living of citizens, of course, to create more jobs for nationals.
Abdulnabi Macki
It is only an interim decision. We are examining it very carefully. We were disappointed, of course, we would have liked to have won. But over all, our thrust remains, the U.S. has to live up to the NAFTA.
Jim Peterson
Being thrust into the role of caregiver without any preparation is difficult under any circumstances.
Carol Levine
Why thrust your kid into that? You try to protect them from all the bad people out there.
John Aniston
The general thrust these days is: "Oh, come on, it's all in the past, nobody's interested any more, it didn't work, everyone knows what the Americans are like, but stop being naive, this is the world, there's nothing to be done about it and anyway fu.
Harold Pinter
New Orleans is, of course, our next thrust, and we're going to have to have to staff recovery efforts down there, but it'll be a different kind of recovery effort, ... We'll be supporting the EOC in Baton Rouge with temporary communications until the National Guard can get in.
Gary Stratton
All of the thrusting is in the inner solar system, then it coasts.
Charles Johnson
Within a jet engine there are various turbine discs; these discs act as support for the blade that provides the thrust, if these disks fail the engine fails.
Joseph Gray
I constructed a theoretically perfect thrust, but I eliminated a few intermediate movements so that nobody could execute it. It has the appearance of being perfect.
Arturo Perez Reverte
NOSE, n. The extreme outpost of the face. From the circumstance that great conquerors have great noses, Getius, whose writings antedate the age of humor, calls the nose the organ of quell. It has been observed that one's nose is never so happy as when thrust into the affairs of others, from which some physiologists have drawn the inference that the nose is devoid of the sense of smell. .
Ambrose Bierce
We think it's going to thrust us into a position of real leadership that frankly we haven't been in before in this market.
Lewis Platt
If we lose this engine, we're not going out of the aircraft engine business. But we will lose the ability to do this kind of high-thrust fighter.
Russell Sparks
The main thrust that we want and that we were after is not the right to retaliate. The main thrust has always been respect for the NAFTA, i.e. repeal the [tariff] orders and return the deposits.
Jim Peterson
The new five-engine SSME cluster, mounted on a stage that will certainly be very different from the orbiter in its propellant feed and thrust-vector control characteristics and its structural, aerodynamic, and environmental behavior, will require considerable engineering attention.
Jerry Grey
Initially there was disbelief. We all get up each day assuming that everything is going to be OK. But now you are thrust into a surreal experience and you have to worry about each step that you take.
Gary Small
The thrust of his argument appears to be he is not a public official and could not receive a bribe, That's a fairly sophisticated argument for jurors. It could go either way.
Paul Gianelli
He took to newspaper journalism once that responsibility was thrust upon him and became a real newspaper man's newspaper man.
David Hawpe
This was thrust upon us and we are going to make the best of it.
George Grace
It's got to be a dual thrust. Increase the college-going rate right out of high school and outreach to those people who have stepped out of high school into the work force.
Linda Johnsrud
The principal thrust of advertising is reaching a specific audience. A sports audience is not necessarily a 'Friends' audience.
Neal Pilson
The video shows it in a near-vertical attitude when it impacted the ground. Obviously the thrust of the investigation is to try to figure out how it got into that attitude.
John Brannen
There are few situations in life that cannot be resolved promptly, and to the satisfaction of all concerned, by either suicide, a bag of gold, or thrusting a despised antagonist over a precipice on a dark night.
Ernest Bramah
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