Recoil/recoil - Momentum Energy and Impulse

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

    “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)

    “For infants and toddlers learning and living are the same thing. If they feel secure, treasured, loved, their own energy and curiosity will bring them new understanding and new skills.”
    —Amy Laura Dombro (20th century)

    “Experience was to be taken as showing that one might get a five-pound note as one got a light for a cigarette; but one had to check the friendly impulse to ask for it in the same way.”
    —Henry James (1843–1916)