Thrown Quotes

886 Thrown quotes by 715 unique authors

The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars;… — Andre Malraux
If hatred strikes you, if you get accused, thrown to the lions, you can expect one of two reactions from people who know you: some… — Milan Kundera
All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel. All of them? Sure, he says. Think about it. There's… — Margaret Atwood
One of the cheapest commodities in the world is unfulfilled genius. All of us want to be known as a unique individual, the one who… — Leon Uris
But Margaret went less abroad, among machinery and men; saw less of power in its public effect, and, as it happened, she was thrown with… — Elizabeth Gaskell
I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing the other patients. — Oscar Levant
Over your breasts of motionless current, over your legs of firmness and water, over the permanence and the pride of your naked hair I want… — Pablo Neruda
I will cling to the rope God has thrown me in Jesus Christ, even when my numb hands can no longer feel it. — Sophie Scholl
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, our snow, began to stretch out beside us and twinkle against the windows,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I went to war. .... I survived, while other men around me died. ... men whose lives were crunched up in mistakes, and thrown away… — Gregory David Roberts
I'm very scared, Buster. Yes, at last. Because it could go on forever. Not knowing what's yours until you've thrown it away. — Truman Capote
Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no… — Graham Greene
Everyone in the life before was cranky, I think, because they just wanted to know. --After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I… — Dave Eggers
Dating is like trying to make a meal out of leftovers. Some leftovers actually get better when they've had a little time to mature. But… — Lisa Kleypas
At heart, he could not abide sense in women: he liked to see them as silly, as light-headed, as vain, as open to ridicule as… — Charlotte Bronte
The act of imagination is the opening of the system so that it shows new connections. Every act of act of imagination is the discovery… — Jacob Bronowski
It is only by enlarging the scope of one’s tastes and one’s fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that the unfortunate individual called Man, thrown… — Marquis de Sade
That's the trouble with having the whole world love you. One day, you wake up and it's flirting with your best friend instead. And you… — Sophie Kinsella
The reader must come armed , in a serious state of intellectual readiness. This is not easy because he comes to the text alone. In… — Neil Postman
...as if someone had thrown a hand grenade into the middle of a teddy bear orgy and the only survivors had had their fur blown… — Christopher Moore
You do not become a ''dissident'' just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by… — Vaclav Havel
We laugh at a man who, stepping out of his room at the very minute when the sun is rising, says, “It is my will… — Friedrich Nietzsche
the anchor man thrown overboard has simply rooted us in history's repeating cycle — Saul Williams
There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant… — Charles Dickens
[M]an is condemned to be free. Condemned, because he did not create himself, in other respect is free; because, once thrown into the world, he… — Jean-Paul Sartre

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