Tossed Quotes
187 quotes by 173 authors
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Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore, send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed,…
— Emma Lazarus
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Genius is a word too often tossed around in musical circles.
— Stanley Jordan
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When we were in the woods beyond Gowbarrow Park we saw a few daffodils close to the waterside. But as we went along there were…
— Dorothy Wordsworth
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I only weigh 220, so I have to do something to keep from being tossed around by all the guys who weigh 250 and more.…
— Dennis Rodman
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The Buddha described his teaching as "going against the stream." The unflinching light of mindful awareness reveals the extent to which we are tossed along…
— Stephen Batchelor
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When young Galileo, then a student at Pisa, noticed one day during divine service a chandelier swinging backwards and forwards, and convinced himself, by counting…
— Hermann von Helmholtz
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At the time of Holy Communion I sometimes picture my soul under the figure of a little child of three or four years, who at…
— Therese of Lisieux
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All day I have been tossed and whirled in a preposterous happiness; was it an elf in the blood? Or a bird in the brain?…
— C.S. Lewis
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All the people ought to decide, but now most states are tossed on the scrap heap and ignored
— John Anderson
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I have seen the sea lashed into fury and tossed into spray, and its grandeur moves the soul of the dullest man; but I remember…
— James A. Garfield
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A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.
— Mark Twain
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...the floss-silk manes tossed up like the crest of a breaking wave....Light ran and glittered on them. They were obedient...you would have sworn...as the white…
— Mary Stewart
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Those who look at the surface of the sea must behold the birth and death of the waves, but those who seek the depths of…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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My senses of space, of distance, and of direction entirely vanished. When I looked for the ground I sometimes looked down, sometimes up, sometimes left,…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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I'm always disappointed when I see the word 'Puritan' tossed around as shorthand for a bunch of generic, boring, stupid, judgmental killjoys. Because to me,…
— Sarah Vowell
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The first object which saluted my eyes when I arrived on the coast was the sea, and a slave ship, which was then riding at…
— Olaudah Equiano
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When I'm a ship tossed around on the waves, Up on a highwire that's ready to break. When I've had just about all I can…
— Kenny Chesney
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Earth and sea merged, the sea tossed itself in the air in a fantastic dance, into the shapes of men and horses and tattered banners.…
— Knut Hamsun
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We aren't just thrown on this earth like dice tossed across a table. We are lovingly placed here for a purpose
— Charles R. Swindoll
Who Wrote These Tossed Quotes
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