Tossed Quotes

187 Tossed quotes by 169 unique authors

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
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
Genius is a word too often tossed around in musical circles. — Stanley Jordan
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
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
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
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
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
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
All the people ought to decide, but now most states are tossed on the scrap heap and ignored — John Anderson
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
A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time. — Mark Twain
...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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I don't like to see players tossed off needlessly. — Andy Gray
In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and… — Edna O'Brien
Actually, I tossed it nicely, landed nicely, like airplane. No warning, beautiful. That's the art of throwing racquets. — Goran Ivanisevic
The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions are governed not… — Nikola Tesla
History is the sextant of states which, tossed by wind and current, would be lost in confusion if they could not fix their position. — Allan Nevins

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