Some people are born great and some have greatness thrust upon them
Unfortunately, public debates do not have much room for subtlety. The audience wants a quick thrust at your opponent, not a slow and convoluted series of moves. Whenever Obama uses subtleties in discussing a complex issue, he gets creamed.
All true theology has an evangelistic thrust, and all true evangelism is theology in action.
Humanity cherishes its swaddling clothes; but it shall not grow up unless it can free itself from them. Turning down his mother's breast does not make the weaned child ungrateful. . . . Rise up naked, valiant; make the sheaths crack; push aside the stakes; to grow straight you need no more than the thrust of your sap and the call of the sun.
At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you'll have to find your inner motivation to seek for new ideas on your own.
Thrust the sword into the dark
Fortunately for the human race, pain, however piercing, is not a lasting emotion. The recollection of happiness lingers, but the consciousness never retains for long the first thrust of tragic loss. The details of daily life crowd in upon the mind.
As a kid, I sensed history going on all around me, but the basic thrust of it didn't move me.
What thrust us into war were not Hitler's political teachings: the cause, this time, was his successful attempt to establish a new economy. The causes of the war were: envy, greed, and fear.
Youth is harmed by having wisdom thrust upon it. Youth must gather wisdom slowly, in laughter and tears.
I've got things I have to do in fiction to sort of register my existence, before I kick the bucket, but it will never be my living and I know it. Plus it never moved fast enough for me and lacked cut and thrust. I need to be in the real show.
Where there's a chase or whatever, it's not being thrust into it.
From early childhood, my thrust was to get into the movies.
So you can see what is happening in the New Testament. Worship is being significantly deinstitutionalized, delocalized, de-externalized. The whole thrust is being taken off of ceremony and seasons and places and forms and is being shifted to what is happening in the heart - not just on Sunday but every day and all the time in all of life.
I have thrust myself into this maze, Haply to wive and thrive as best I may.
Willpower is a concentration of force. You gather up all your energy and make a massive thrust forward.
There is no power in cynicism. There is no forward thrust in cynicism.
Love is the dynamic motivation behind every worthy purpose; it is the upward thrust that lifts men to the heights.
I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine; every man for himself, and God for us all.
The upward thrust of evolution as part of the design becomes something to preserve and revere.