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)

    “A government deriving its energy from the will of the society, and operating, by the reason of its measures, on the understanding and interest of the society ... is the government for which philosophy has been searching and humanity been fighting from the most remote ages ... which it is the glory of America to have invented, and her unrivalled happiness to possess.”
    —James Madison (1751–1836)

    “What is desire?—
    The impulse to make someone else complete?
    That woman would set sodden straw on fire.”
    —Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)