Counter Recoil Force

Famous quotes containing the words counter, recoil and/or force:

“Often, when there is a conflict between parent and child, at its very hub is an expectation that the child should be acting differently. Sometimes these expectations run counter what is known about children’s growth. They stem from remembering oneself, but usually at a slightly older age.”
—Ellen Galinsky (20th century)

“Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.”
—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)

“His [the President’s] office is anything he has the sagacity and force to make it.”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)