Thrown Quotes

886 Thrown quotes by 715 unique authors

What winning is to me is not giving up, is no matter what's thrown at me, I can take it. And I can keep going. — Patrick Swayze
I know what it's like to be ignored, and I think that is the big problem about the prison system: These people are being thrown… — Lee Tergesen
The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of… — Leon Trotsky
I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full… — Desmond Tutu
The job of arguing with the umpire belongs to the manager, because it won't hurt the team if he gets thrown out of the game. — Earl Weaver
His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork. — Mae West
I remember, May 1944: I was 15-and-a-half, and I was thrown into a haunted universe where the story of the human adventure seemed to swing… — Elie Wiesel
I was very, very thrown by the fact that I had to make some big changes in my life in order to be myself, but… — Kate Winslet
I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Actually, because I'm so small, when I strike an open A chord I get physically thrown to the left, and when I play an open… — Angus Young
This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force. — Dorothy Parker
There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams -- not through her own fault, but because of the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
He domesticated and developed the native wild flowers. He had one hill-side solidly clad with that low-growing purple verbena which mats over the hills of… — Willa Cather
Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress. — George Eliot
All writers should be put in a box and thrown in the sea. — Gordon B. Hinckley
You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts… — Winston Churchill
The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book- a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told… — Mark Twain
And when the universe has finished exploding all the stars will slow down, like a ball that has been thrown into the air, and they… — Mark Haddon
Come away, come away, Death, And in sad cypress let me be laid; Fly away, fly away, breath, I am slain by a fair cruel… — William Shakespeare
No more photos. Surely there are enough. No more shadows of myself thrown by light onto pieces of paper, onto squares of plastic. No more… — Margaret Atwood
not every boy thrown to the wolves becomes a hero. — John Barth
I went to bed last night utterly dejected; I thought I was never going to amount to anything, and that you had thrown away your… — Jean Webster
I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me. — Woody Allen
And while one is brought up with luxury and caresses, and is thrown bewildered and despairing into a dark pit, another is lifted from the… — Abolqasem Ferdowsi
To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. — Pema Chodron

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