Thrown Quotes
886 Thrown quotes by 715 unique authors
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Impurities are constantly and imperceptibly passing from the body, through the pores, and if the surface of the skin is not kept in a healthy…
— Ellen G. White
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Team speed for Christ's sake. You got bleeping' bleep bleep little fleas on the bleeping' bases getting picked off, trying to steal, getting thrown out,…
— Earl Weaver
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Sometimes, as is the case of peach and plum trees, which are often dwarfed, the plants are thrown into a flowering states, and then, as…
— Robert Fortune
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At some point my friends and I began to ask, how can a country that produced hippies and such cool people also fight a war…
— Nguyen Qui Duc
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Man has been thrown into the world. It had always made him think of Icarus and those other great tumblers, Ixion, Phaeton, Tantalus - all…
— Cees Nooteboom
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Not only the priceless heritage of our fathers, of our seamen, of our Empire builders is being thrown away in a war that serves no…
— John Amery
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An object imbued with intent — it has power, it's treasure, we're drawn to it. An object devoid of intent — it's random, it's imitative,…
— John Hockenberry
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For the dharma to become firsthand knowledge-to feel the ‘ouch’ of it-you have to live intimately with it, hold it up to scrutiny, and let…
— Larry Rosenberg
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I may be arrested, I may be tried and thrown into jail, but I never will be silent.
— Emma Goldman
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Put first things first and second things are thrown in. Put second things first and you lose both first and second things.
— C.S. Lewis
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If you will think of ourselves as coming out of the earth, rather than having been thrown in here from somewhere else, you see that…
— Joseph Campbell
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The words of some men are thrown forcibly against you and adhere like burrs.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Tedious as it may appear to some to dwell on the discovery of odds and ends that have, no doubt, been thrown away by the…
— Unknown Author
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I had the good fortune to be thrown unexpectedly into something called the Labour Research Unit - a little known organisation set up to assist…
— S. R. Nathan
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A wasteland is a confrontation to a man of stature: an empty place, a gauntlet thrown down in challenge and defiance. A place like that…
— John C. Wright
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The revelation that we have everything we need in life to make us happy but simply lack the conscious awareness to appreciate it can be…
— Sarah Ban Breathnach
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Well, the world has changed so radically, and we're all running to catch up. I don't want to jump to any conclusions, but look: Dinosaurs…
— Alan Grant
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One thing about championship teams is that they're resilient. No matter what is thrown at them, no matter how deep the hole, they find a…
— Nick Saban
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Yet, every time God's children have thrown away fear in pursuit of honesty-trying to communicate themselves, understood or not, miracles have happened.
— Duke Ellington
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Children with harsh fathers accept much of what is thrown their way as normal because they don’t have a frame of reference for anything else,…
— Unknown Author
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You know what it is? San Francisco is a golden handcuff with the key thrown away.
— John Steinbeck
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Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls on…
— Henry David Thoreau
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I think the important thing now, getting closer to the pitch counts, it feels like I got something left. I felt I could have gone…
— Roy Halladay
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When you run after your thoughts, you are like a dog chasing a stick: every time a stick is thrown, you run after it. Instead,…
— Milarepa
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The tragedy of a species becoming unfit for life by over-evolving one ability is not confined to humankind. Thus it is thought, for instance, that…
— Peter Wessel Zapffe
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