Thrashing Quotes
24 quotes by 22 authors
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The French need a thrashing. If the Prussians win, the centralisation of the state power will be useful for the centralisation of the German working…
— Karl Marx
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My once-keen analytical mind has become so dulled by endless hours of baking in the hot sun, thrashing about in tight chimneys, pulling at impossibly…
— Warren G. Harding
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Our huffing and puffing to impress God, our scrambling for brownie points, our thrashing about trying to fix ourselves while hiding our pettiness and wallowing…
— Brennan Manning
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Write to me and don't be so lazy. Otherwise I shall have to give you a thrashing. What fun! I'll break your head.
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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The best way to quiet a country is a good thrashing, followed by great kindness afterwards. Even the wildest chaps are thus tamed.
— Charles James
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He never pays attention, he always knows the answer, and he can never tell you how he knows. We can't keep thrashing him. He is…
— Terry Pratchett
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... people don't know what they are striving for. They waste themselves in senseless thrashing around for the sake of a handful of goods and…
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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I feel as though whenever I create something, my Mr. Hyde wakes up in the middle of the night and starts thrashing it. I sometimes…
— Criss Jami
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Have you seen 'American Idol' lately? I'm sure that some kids somewhere at this moment are thrashing themselves silly over what they call 'Rock n'…
— Eric Burdon
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Word lessons, in particular the wouldst couldst shouldst have loved kind, were kept up, with much warlike thrashing, until I had committed the whole of…
— John Muir
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Flailing and thrashing, Buttercup wept and tossed and paced and wept some more, and there have been three great cases of jealousy since David of…
— William Goldman
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Sometimes the crime follows the punishment, which only serves to prove the foresight of the Great God." "That's what my grandmother used to say," said…
— Terry Pratchett
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Time, of course, topples everyone in its path equally- the way that driver beats his old horse until it dies. But the thrashing we receive…
— Haruki Murakami
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I have seen Tasmanian devils battle over a carcass. I have seen lionesses crowding a kill, dingoes on the trail of a feral piglet, and…
— Terri Irwin
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At this point two elderly security guards in parkas, the guys who normally work the front desk at the plant, asked John to step behind…
— David Wong
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Those who possess wisdom cannot just ladle it out to every wantwit and jackanapes who comes along and asks for it. A person must be…
— Tom Robbins
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You might be able to thrash your way out of a spiderweb, but thrashing in quicksand doesn’t work. The harder you fight, the more ground…
— Karen Marie Moning
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The corpse's hand reached up and grabbed Shaisam by the throat. He gasped, thrashing, as the corpse opened its eye. "There's an odd thing about…
— Robert Jordan
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Her mind is a bird that's trapped inside her skull, flapping and thrashing, never breaking free.
— Lauren DeStefano
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The giant raised his fist, and a voice cut through the dream. "Leo!" Jason was shaking his shoulder. "Hey, man, why are you hugging Nike?"…
— Rick Riordan
Who Wrote These Thrashing Quotes
22 authors contributed a total of 24 Thrashing Quotes as follows: