Many who have escaped the rocks of gross sin have been…

“Like us, those vanished warriors planted their standards in the sands of their own self-summoned extinction.”

— Steven Pressfield

Upon retiring, sleep as if you had entered your last sleep. Upon awakening, leave your bed behind you instantly as if you had cast…

— Soyen Shaku

This is one of the results of that adventurous spirit which is now stalking forth and raging for its own innovations. We have not…

— Isaac D'Israeli

Woe betide the leaders now perched on their dizzy pinnacles of triumph if they cast away at the conference table what the soldiers had…

— Anonymous

Wish you could turn off the questions, turn off the voices, turn off all sound. Yearn to close out the ugliness, close out the…

— Ellen Hopkins

The proper education of poor children [is] the ground-work of almost every other kind of charity… Without this foundation firstlaid, how much kindnessis unavoidably…

— Laurence Sterne

We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.

— Judy Garland

The humanities are like the great old Paris Flea Market where, amidst masses of junk, people with a good eye found cast away treasures...They…

— Allan Bloom

Lord, here is my body; I am very grateful for it; I neglected nothing that belonged to its contents and welfare; but as for…

— John Flavel

How many thousands of [lives] are there every year that comes cast away, (in all civilized countries at least)--and consider'd asnothing but common air,…

— Laurence Sterne

“You think Mother sent us out here to have visions?' Ralph asked. 'Maybe to gain strength and holiness by a purging process',Glen said. 'The…

— Stephen King

When you cast away all your greed and fixation in adversity, you can find unexpected strength.

— Momofuku Ando

If you cast away one cross, you will certainly find another, and perhaps a heavier.

— Thomas a Kempis

Cast me not away from thy presence oh God. Take not thy Holy Spirit from me.

— Kim Burrell

Every last cast is actually a first cast. The first cast and first chance to catch the next fish. The next time you anguish…

— Tony Bishop