Hurled Quotes
51 quotes by 47 authors
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Other conditions being equal, if one force is hurled against another ten times its size, the result will be the flight of the former.
— Sun Tzu
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Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be hurled into that…
— James A. Baldwin
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While I was not consulted prior to the President's decision to intervene in support of the Republic of Korea, that decision from a military standpoint,…
— Douglas MacArthur
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Today we are crushed by the sheer weight of the mechanized forces hurled against us, but we can still look to the future in which…
— Charles de Gaulle
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A mighty power and stronger Man from his throne has hurled,For the hand that rocks the cradle Is the hand that rules the world.
— William Ross Wallace
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Chaos of thought and passion, all confused; Still by himself abused or disabused; Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all…
— Alexander Pope
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Men of Color, To Arms! The case is before you. This is our golden opportunity. Let us accept it, and forever wipe out the dark…
— Frederick Douglass
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I have already transmitted to Congress the report of the naval court of inquiry on the destruction of the battleship Maine in the harbor of…
— William McKinley
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Abstractness, sometimes hurled as a reproach at mathematics, is its chief glory and its surest title to practical usefulness. It is also the source of…
— Eric Temple Bell
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Build your house with the stones they hurled at you
— Erri De Luca
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Examples of exaggeration can be found in almost any advertising medium. The use of the superlative is altogether too prevalent. 'The finest,' 'the best,' 'the…
— Daniel Starch
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Sometimes, in the course of my hopeless quest, I would pick up and dip into one of the ordinary books that lay strewn around the…
— Walter Moers
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Like falling stars from the universe we are hurled Down through the long loneliness of the world Until we behold the pain, become the pearl
— Emmylou Harris
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They were glued down, every last one of them. A packet of souls. Was it fate?Misfortune?Is that what glued them down like that?Of course not.Let's…
— Markus Zusak
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And Sandy Martindale ... dated Elvis before the rhinestone jumpsuits and the drugs, when he was sharp and cool and jagged, like porcelain that has…
— Rick Bragg
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Count me o'er earth's chosen heroes, - they were souls that stood alone, While the men they agonized for hurled the contumelious stone, Stood serene,…
— James Russell Lowell
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The first angel sounded his trumpet, and there came hail and fire mixed with blood, and it was hurled down upon the earth. A third…
— John the Apostle
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If Jupiter hurled his thunderbolt as often as men sinned, he would soon be out of thunderbolts.
— Ovid
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Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurled: / The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
— Alexander Pope
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Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error…
— Pope Francis
Who Wrote These Hurled Quotes
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