Thrown Quotes
886 Thrown quotes by 715 unique authors
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I am not going to allow myself not to perform well just because I don't feel well. I am bulletproof to the extent that a…
— Ian Thorpe
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Running has thrown me into adventures that I would otherwise have missed.
— Benjamin Cheever
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I was thrown into a community production of 'Bye Bye Birdie' or something when I was a kid. I wanted to just build the sets,…
— Michael Stuhlbarg
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She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitchfork.
— Jonathan Swift
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A man is not a wall, whose stones are crushed upon the road; or a pipe, whose fragments are thrown away at a street corner.…
— George Sand
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Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins.
— Leo Tolstoy
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Before I had my child, I thought I knew all the boundaries of myself, that I understood the limits of my heart. It's extraordinary to…
— Uma Thurman
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What's exciting about using our mind is that we can short circuit all the excuses thrown up by our fears.
— Mark Victor Hansen
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Nobel Prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Anyone buying this book is going to be out a tidy sum if he is sucked in by the title. I wish I could write…
— Groucho Marx
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Sometimes when you're just thrown into something, you are more ready for it than when you have time to think it over and get nervous…
— Lara Flynn Boyle
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The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be based on a new foundation, that of the necessary…
— Charles Darwin
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I think if a physician wrote on a death certificate that old age was the cause of death, he'd be thrown out of the union.…
— George Wald
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Now, I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil, having due regard…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Painting or poetry is made as one makes love - a total embrace, prudence thrown to the winds, nothing held back.
— Joan Miro
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If you want to do Vipassana, or any silent meditation, Dynamic Meditation becomes absolutely essential, because Christianity having poisoned your mind, that poison has to…
— Rajneesh
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Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation. He recounts the decency and…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history.
— Charles Darwin
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Washington has thrown their soldiers on the fire.
— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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This is one of those big, fat paperbacks, intended to while away a monsoon or two, which, if thrown with a good overarm action, will…
— Nancy Banks-Smith
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But I think the image that's thrown out on television is a bad image. Because you see players who want to imitate hip-hop stars. And…
— Oscar Robertson
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What we should be very concerned about is the excesses and the abuses. Where we see hunts where the fox is torn away out of…
— Unknown Author
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It appears that all that can be, is. The Creator's hand does not appear to have been opened in order to give existence to a…
— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
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Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you…
— C.S. Lewis
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