Thrown Quotes
886 Thrown quotes by 715 unique authors
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We are thrown together with a sprinkling of stardust.
— Jostein Gaarder
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People who start a sentence with personally (and they're always women) ought to be thrown to the lions. It's a repulsive habit.
— Georgette Heyer
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Now may this little Book a blessing be To those that love this little Book, and me: And may its Buyer have no cause to…
— John Bunyan
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No.” He wouldn’t lie about that. Not to her. And not because she’d rip him to pieces when she discovered the truth. “I can’t give…
— Gena Showalter
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I am nothing. I’m like someone who’s been thrown into the ocean at night, floating all alone. I reach out, but no one is there.…
— Haruki Murakami
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You’ve thrown down the gauntlet. You’ve brought my wrath down upon your house. Now, to prove that I exist I must kill you. As the…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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Never shall a young man, Thrown into despair By those great honey-coloured Ramparts at your ear, Love you for yourself alone And not your yellow…
— William Butler Yeats
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The midnight disease is a kind of emotional insomnia; at ever conscious moment its victim—even if he or she writes at dawn, or in the…
— Michael Chabon
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Statues to great men are made of the stones thrown at them in their lifetime.
— Jean Cocteau
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The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.
— Marcus Aurelius
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It was possible that I'd thrown one too many Molotov cocktails over God's fence.
— Maggie Stiefvater
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Everyone on earth would never starve and forever find love and happiness, since we won, but if we’d lost, they would have gouged out our…
— Daniel Handler
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Time has been lost and opportunity thrown away, but I am yet a young man, and may retrieve it.
— Charles Dickens
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The director’s task is to recreate life, its movement, its contradictions, its dynamic and conflicts. It is his duty to reveal every iota of the…
— Andrei Tarkovsky
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Stacey: "I'm surprised you haven't thrown me out." Comfort: "At your current weight, I'd need some sort of catapult.
— Kristin Hannah
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A sneeze travels at a peak velocity of two hundred miles per hour. A burp, more slowly; a fart, slower yet. But a kiss thrown…
— Tom Robbins
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He had never looked forward to the wisdom and other vaunted benefits of old age. Would he be able to die young—and if possible free…
— Yukio Mishima
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The fanatical atheists are like slaves who are still feeling the weight of their chains which they have thrown off after hard struggle. They are…
— Albert Einstein
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My mouth opened. It happened. Yes, with my head thrown into the sky, I started howling. Arms stretched out next to me, I howled, and…
— Markus Zusak
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That's the thing I'm learning about being thrown out on yer own. Nobody does nothing for you. If you don't change it, it don't get…
— Patrick Ness
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Made for spirituality, we wallow in introspection. Made for joy, we settle for pleasure. Made for justice, we clamor for vengeance. Made for relationship, we…
— N. T. Wright
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How many times had I let myself connect with someone only to have it thrown back in my face?
— Jay Asher
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The nature of love had totally escaped her until now. She had thought that if you lost it, you could never get it back, like…
— Alice Hoffman
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To be a man, to have been born without knowing it or wanting it, to be thrown into the ocean of existence, to be obliged…
— Ivo Andric
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In all the ills that befall us, we are more concerned by the intention than the result. A tile that falls off a roof may…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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