Quotes about Recoil
Then all who see you will recoil from you and say, ‘Nineveh is devastated; who will grieve for her?’ Where can I find comforters for you?”
— Nahum 3:7
The battering-ram of natural affection which so often shatters faith must recoil powerless from the wall of the Gospel.
— Jerome
Something inside me recoiled as I heard her repeat the clichéd comments from her visitors. Is Christianity supposed to make a sufferer feel even worse?
— Philip Yancey
Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Unfast'ns: on a sudden op'n flie With impetuous recoile and jarring sound Th' infernal dores, and on thir hinges great Harsh Thunder, that the lowest bottom shook Of Erebus. She op'nd, but to shut Excel'd her power; the Gates wide op'n
— John Milton
He backed away and so did she.
— Dale Carnegie
Hence the sacred attitude is one which does not recoil from our own inner emptiness, but rather penetrates into it with awe and reverence, and with the awareness of mystery.
— Thomas Merton
The day when two army corps can annihilate each other in one second, all civilized nations, it is to be hoped, will recoil from war and discharge their troops.
— Alfred Nobel
Uncontrolled anger is a devastating sin, and no one is exempt from its havoc. It shatters friendships and destroys marriages; it causes abuse in families and discord in business; it breeds violence in the community and war between nations. Its recoil, like that of a high-powered rifle, often hurts the one who wields it as well as its target. Anger makes us lash out at others, destroying relationships and revealing our true nature.
— Billy Graham
Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
— Arthur Conan Doyle