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What do I feel when I shoot an enemy? Recoil... -- RaeLynn
Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
The stone often recoils on the head of the thrower. -- Elizabeth I
Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils. -- John Milton
He for himself weaves woe who weaves for others woe, and evil counsel on the counselor recoils. -- Hesiod
On a sudden open fly With impetuous recoil and jarring sound Th' infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder. -- John Milton
He who sports compliments, unless he takes good aim, may miss his mark, and be wounded by the recoil of his own weapon. -- Thomas Chandler Haliburton
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
The man who seeks revenge is like the man who shoots himself in order to hit his enemy with the kick of the gun's recoil. -- Tim LaHaye
Analysis takes back with one hand what it gives with the other. I recoil in fear and loathing from that deplorable evil: continuous functions with no derivatives. -- Charles Hermite
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
Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings - as some savage tribes determine the power of muskets by their recoil; that being considered best which fairly prostrates the purchaser. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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
I thought this must be obvious to everyone else, as it seemed obvious to me; and that, if once it became apparent that we were on the edge, all the Great Powers would call a halt and recoil from the abyss. -- Edward Grey
Most Americans instinctively recoil from the claim that there is an antireligious bias running through the underlying assumptions with which their society approaches church-state issues. However, there is persuasive evidence that among some influential segments of the population, there is a very real antireligious strain. -- Stephen V Monsma
Our Savior kneels down and gazes upon the darkest acts of our lives. But rather than recoil in horror, he reaches out in kindness and says, "I can clean that if you want." And from the basin of his grace, he scoops a palm full of mercy and washes away our sin. -- Max Lucado
Coercive measures may have a restraining effect for a time, but can never subdue an untractable spirit: it is only by engaging the affections and enlarging the understanding, that the heart can be meliorated or principles be formed; for like a bow forcibly bent, the mind recoils from oppression with elastic power. -- Mary Hays
We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory. Like the images the photographer plunges into a golden bath, our sentiments take on color; and only then, after that recoil and that trans-figuration, do we understand their real meaning and enjoy them in all their tranquil splendor. -- Georges Duhamel
The persons whom you have idolized can never, in the end, be ungrateful, and, probably, at the time of retreat they still do justice to your heart. But, so long as you must draw persons too near you, a temporary recoil is sure to follow. It is the character striving to defend itself from a heating and suffocating action upon it. -- Margaret Fuller
There never is any such thing as one truth to be found in dramatic art, there are many. These truths challenge each other, recoil from each other, reflect each other, ignore each other, tease each other, are blind to each other. Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slips through your fingers and is lost. -- Harold Pinter
The good or evil we confer on others very often, I believe, recoils on ourselves; for as men of a benign disposition enjoy their own acts of beneficence equally with those to whom they are done, so there are scarce any natures so entirely diabolical as to be capable of doing injuries without paying themselves some pangs for the ruin which they bring on their fellow-creatures. -- Henry Fielding
The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements. -- Bill Keller
One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself. -- Jack London
Life presents itself in constantly changing ways, but you're able to accept the challenges, rather than recoil, throw up your hands, and go on a binge. -- Carnie Wilson
On the day when two army corps may mutually annihilate each other in a second, probably all civilized nations will recoil with horror and disband their troops. -- Alfred Nobel
My instinct is to absolutely recoil when talking about writing in a mechanistic way. Nothing could be dumber than writing a film or TV script based on prescriptions, on other peoples' ideas of what character should be. -- Michael Hirst
I thought this must be obvious to everyone else, as it seemed obvious to me; and that, if once it became apparent that we were on the edge, all the Great Powers would call a halt and recoil from the abyss. -- Edward Grey
There is a danger for Britain as we perceive ourselves, or as we are - less wealthy, facing economic austerity - that we essentially draw back. I think there is a recoil in parts of the country, and in parts of the government actually, from the multilateral system, and I think that's dangerous and wrong. -- David Miliband
When I started out playing small clubs, you could feel the room recoil from certain kinds of songs. Anything that was too personal, that had a sentiment to it, or was laying out your feelings, was immediately booed. People would start throwing things. And anything that was really provocative or humorous or radical was embraced or cheered. -- Beck
Evil on itself shall back recoil. -- John Milton
Let's do what you fear most That from which you recoil But which still makes your eyes moist -- Lou Reed
Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin. -- Lucretius
Just in time for Bob Dylan to recoil from the attention, leave the city for Woodstock, and turn his back on fame. -- Bob Dylan
SOME GIRLS WEAR PRADA. SOME GIRLS WEAR GLOCK 17 SHORT RECOIL SPRING-LOADED SEMIAUTOMATIC PISTOLS WITH A LOADED CHAMBER INDICATOR AND A NONSLIP GRIP. - T-SHIRT -- Darynda Jones
It's fine to dress in polka dots and pink crinoline if you want. What I recoil from is the idea that that alone is the only way to be female. -- Susan Faludi
Sole and self-commanded works, Fears not undermining days, Grows by decays, And, by the famous might that lurks In reaction and recoil, Makes flames to freeze, and ice to boil. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wonder has no opposite; it springs up already doubled in itself, compounded of dread and desire at once, attraction and recoil, producing a thrill, the shudder of pleasure and of fear. -- Marina Warner
Sensing us, the trees tremble in their sleep, The living leaves recoil before our fires, Baring to us war-charred and broken branches, And seeing theirs, we for our own destruction weep. -- Kathleen Raine

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