Thrown Quotes

886 Thrown quotes by 715 unique authors

It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable. — Joseph Barber Lightfoot
I was honored today with having a few stones, dirt, rotten eggs, and pieces of dead cat thrown at me — George Whitefield
I think that I'm throwing but I'm thrown — Lisa Loeb
To me if there's an achievement to lighting and photography in a film it's because nothing stands out, it all works as a piece. And… — Roger Deakins
When you put things together, things that other people have thrown out, you’re really bringing them to life – a spiritual life that surpasses the… — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
Follow through: The part of the swing that takes place after the ball has been hit, but before the club has been thrown. — Henry Beard
Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Things have been done the hard way.… — John Elway
I got thrown out of school several weeks in my senior year being caught in the girls' dorm. This was 1954, friends. The girls' dorm… — Robert B. Parker
Myths grow all the time. If I was to listen to the number of times I've thrown teacups then we've gone through some crockery in… — Alex Ferguson
If my lips teach the public that men are made mad by bad treatment, and if the police are taught that they may exasperate to… — Ned Kelly
A prudent silence will frequently be taken for wisdom and a sentence or two cautiously thrown in will sometimes gain the palm of knowledge, while… — Ron Chernow
World, they have taken the small children like butterflies and thrown them, beating their wings, into the fire-- — Nelly Sachs
I have been almost overwhelmed by the announcement of the sad event [Lincoln's assassination] which has so recently occurred. I feel incompetent to perform duties… — Andrew Johnson
The surer of himself an admiral is, the finer the tactical development of his fleet, the better his captains, the more reluctant must he necessarily… — Alfred Thayer Mahan
Every rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence produces random propaganda results. Why waste even a rock? — Abbie Hoffman
All the tenets that I had grown up with were thrown out the window. — Archie Shepp
No totalitarian authority nor authoritarian state can tolerate those who have an absolute by which to judge that state and its actions. The Christians had… — Francis Schaeffer
Love, it’s such a night, laced with running water, irreparable, riddled with a million leaks. A night shaped like a shadow thrown by your absence.… — Stuart Dybek
Just because fate had thrown another obstacle in my way didn't mean I had to give up my dreams. — Jodi Picoult
Consciousness rap - a term that I don't think exactly exists but gets thrown around a lot - is not exactly popular. — Macklemore
Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn't matter.… — Harvey Mackay
To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast in the very lap of fortune. — Benjamin Franklin
With uncertainty in one scale, courage and self-confidence should be thrown into the other to correct the balance. The greater they are, the greater the… — Carl von Clausewitz
Success is a process... During that journey sometimes there are stones thrown at you, and you convert them into milestones. — Sachin Tendulkar
But I plucked a new, different, worldly soul for myself -- maybe a soul I found in the spray thrown up by the surge of… — Alexandra Fuller

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