Sentences with phrase «kicks against the pricks»

In a 2000 interview with Women's Quarterly, the great critic displayed about as much indifference to the existence of God as is humanly possible; he had neither the commitment of a true believer nor the paradoxical loyalty of the atheist who kicks against the pricks:

She knew I kicked against the pricks.

Then again, she could just be kicking against the pricks.

The best artists began to yield rather than kick against the pricks.»