I've had a lot of things thrown at me. A lot of coins that had been sharpened, billiard balls, and I had… — Bruce Grobbelaar Copy Share Image
Nature imitates herself. A grain thrown into good ground brings forth fruit; a principle thrown into a good mind brings forth fruit.… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
As to the number of novels I've abandoned... I shudder to think. I have thrown away five completed novels, and that's a… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Whatever market for manufactured goods emerged in colonial and dependent countries did not become the "eternal market" of these countries. Thrown wide… — Paul A. Baran Copy Share Image
I was born, to handle situations the way I do. I've always been the type who can be thrown in the fire… — Roman Reigns Copy Share Image
I went to war. … I survived, while other men around me died. ... men whose lives were crunched up in mistakes,… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
Actually the best thing I did was to get thrown out by my wife. She's living with a fitness instructor. He drinks… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
A man is likewise form and expression, a written sign thrown unto boundless matter, an undifferentiated word of what is. I've therefore… — Mohammed Dib Copy Share Image
You’ve thrown down the gauntlet. You’ve brought my wrath down upon your house. Now, to prove that I exist I must kill… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I feel like I owe him something, and I hate owing people. Maybe if I had thanked him at some point, I'd… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
God and nature have thrown all human fortunes into the midst of mankind; and they are thus attainable rather by rapine than… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Each time we arrive at a new level in extricating ourselves from economic, social, spiritual domination, we have a moment when we… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
I look upon every good man, as a good book, lent by its owner for another to read, and transcribe the excellent… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
Every one is struggling for freedom-from the atom to the star. The ignorant man is satisfied if he can get freedom within… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Avoid stock expressions (like the plague, as William Safire used to say) and repetitions. Don't say that as a boy your grandmother… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
There, he had seen every thing to exalt in his estimation the woman he had lost, and there begun to deplore the… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
All experiences of life seems to prove that the impediments thrown in the way of the human advancement may for the most… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Sometimes when you're just thrown into something, you are more ready for it than when you have time to think it over… — Lara Flynn Boyle Copy Share Image
You have a bout with death, things that touch your mortality, when that happens, all that bling-bling gets thrown away because all… — Louis Gossett, Jr Copy Share Image
You ever mix two different groups of friends? That can be stressful. You always feel like you have to prep 'em. You're… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
Saturday Night Live is such a comedy boot camp in a way, because you get to work with so many different people… — Will Ferrell Copy Share Image
The depth and strength of our character is defined by our moral code. People only reveal themselves when they're thrown out of… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to women as freely as to men.… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
Sometimes, as is the case of peach and plum trees, which are often dwarfed, the plants are thrown into a flowering states,… — Robert Fortune Copy Share Image
Sometimes you don't realize how dependent you are on just a few people, and if they disappear, suddenly you can be thrown… — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
I've died so many times. I'm 65. On my 40th birthday, my girlfriend gave me a reel with ways I had died,… — Jonathan Banks Copy Share Image
The battered idealist. It's just my favorite character ... To me, a hero is somebody who is able to accept the environment… — Cameron Crowe Copy Share Image
I've thrown or broken a few clubs in my day. In fact, I guess at one time or another I probably held… — Tommy Bolt Copy Share Image
The generality have considered that disease is but a confused and disordered effort in Nature, thrown down from her proper state, and… — Thomas Sydenham Copy Share Image
When she was thrown into the air by a savage bull in the amphitheatre at Carthage, her first thought and action when… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
What a vindication of the belief that ordinary people can do extraordinary things, what a reminder of what Bobby Kennedy once said,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I still think that being thrown in a very competitive environment where you really have to see what you are made of… — Alfonso Gomez-Rejon Copy Share Image
I was swimming in art day and night. There were always parties being thrown, with artists from every medium (my extended aunts… — Michael Hyatt Copy Share Image
In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don't want their villain to be… — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt; and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its… — Helen Hunt Jackson Copy Share Image
What is charm then? The free giving of a grace, the spending of something given by nature in her role of spendthrift… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
If we don't throw Obama out of office, soon, and there's every reason to throw him out of office, preemptively; he deserves… — Lyndon LaRouche Copy Share Image
Never shall a young man, Thrown into despair By those great honey-coloured Ramparts at your ear, Love you for yourself alone And… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
