Recoil/recoil - Momentum Energy and Impulse

Famous quotes containing the words recoil, energy and/or impulse:

    “A man with your experience in affairs must have seen cause to appreciate the futility of opposition to the moral sentiment. However feeble the sufferer and however great the oppressor, it is in the nature of things that the blow should recoil upon the aggressor. For God is in the sentiment, and it cannot be withstood.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Violence among young people ... is an aspect of their desire to create. They don’t know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy.”
    —Anthony Burgess (b. 1917)

    “Grant us a brief delay; impulse in everything
    Is but a worthless minister.”
    —Publius Papinius Statius (c. 40–96)