Javelin Quotes

• If the javelin had hit me 10cm to the left, it would have punctured my lung, 20cm higher the throat, which would have been the worst-case scenario. Just 1cm higher and it would have hit bone, muscle and tendon and that would have been the end of my sporting career.

  Roman Sebrle

  Careers, Worst Case Scenario, Bones

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• I am the type of guy that always looks into the future. But, of course, you never completely forget a javelin in your shoulder.

  Roman Sebrle

  Guy, Looks, Forget

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• I looked at my shoulder and saw a javelin stuck in it. I was in shock.

  Roman Sebrle

  Saws, Shock, Shoulders

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• Besides, it happens (how, I cannot tell) that an idea launched like a javelin in proverbial form strikes with sharper point on the hearer's mind and leaves implanted barbs for meditation.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Ideas, Meditation, Mind

  Desiderius Erasmus, William Watson Barker (2001). “The Adages of Erasmus”, p.16, University of Toronto Press

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• I have no wife whom I love so well that I would not put a javelin through her heart, and I would do it with clean hands.

  Brigham Young

  Heart, Hands, Wife

  Brigham Young (1856). “Journal of Discourses”, p.247

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• Suppose you found your brother in bed with your wife, and put a javelin through both of them. You would be justified, and they would atone for their sins, and be received into the Kingdom of God. I would at once do so, in such a case; and under the circumstances, I have no wife whom I love so well that I would not put a javelin through her heart, and I would do it with clean hands.... There is not a man or woman, who violates the covenants made with their God, that will not be required to pay the debt. The blood of Christ will never wipe that out, your own blood must atone for it.

  Brigham Young

  Brother, Heart, Men

  Brigham Young (1856). “Journal of Discourses”, p.247

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• I saw a boy of the crew purchasing javelins of them with bits of platters and broken glass.

  Christopher Columbus

  Broken Heart, Boys, Glasses

  Christopher Columbus, Bartolomé de las Casas (1827). “Personal Narrative of the First Voyage of Columbus to America: From a Manuscript Recently Discovered in Spain”, p.50

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• If I could be good at any sport, it'd be javelin. I know a few people I would love to throw a spear at.

  Cheryl Cole

  Sports, People, Be Good

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• My sole ambition as a composer is to hurl my javelin into the infinite space of the future.

  Franz Liszt

  Ambition, Space, Infinite

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• The only job worse is a javelin catcher at a track - and - field meet.

  Gump Worsley

  Funny, Jobs, Hockey

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• The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.

  Pliny the Elder

  Dragons, Snakes, Tree

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• After being impaled by a javelin, while officiating- I'm doing fine now, just resting and hanging around.

  Jeremy Campbell

  Inspirational, Funny, Fine

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• Each Javelin round costs $80,000, and the idea that it's fired by a guy who doesn't make that in a year at a guy who doesn't make that in a lifetime is somehow so outrageous it almost makes the war seem winnable.

  Sebastian Junger

  War, Winning, Fire

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• I am not a huge gamer. My son knows a LOT more than I do about what is cool on Xbox. I played Halo but the sports games that the whole family can use are the things I use the most. I threw the javelin very very far!

  Bill Gates

  Sports, Xbox, Son

  "Hello Reddit – I’m Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Microsoft founder. Ask me anything". Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. February 10, 2014.

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• They no longer had nor could find any arrows, javelins or stones with which to attack us.

  Hernando Cortes

  War, Arrows, Stones

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• He grabbed for the coatrack that stood by the door, ripped the coats off it, and flung the door wide, the rack held above his head like a javelin. On the other side of the door was Jace. He blinked. "Is that a coatrack?

  Cassandra Clare

  Doors, Coats, Sides

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1584, Simon and Schuster

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• I understand pain. I've lived with pain my entire life. But pain is nothing compared to betrayal. And betrayal is nothing compared to knowing that the javelin in your back was rammed there by the one person in your life you actually trusted.

  Brad Meltzer

  Pain, Betrayal, Knowing

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• But in a country where you hang your dead up on walls and pride whether or not a man bears a javelin more than his character, how am I to persuade you out of a war? It would be suicide for Kildenree to war on Bayern and butchery for Bayern to attack Kildenree. If you don't believe me, then send me back. Or if you don't trust me to leave, I'll return to my little room on the west wall and tend your geese, and you can be sure that on my watch no thieves will touch my flock.

  Shannon Hale

  Suicide, Country, Wall

  Shannon Hale (2010). “The Goose Girl”, p.374, A&C Black

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• There is not a man or woman, who violates the covenants made with their God, that will not be required to pay the debt. The blood of Christ will never wipe that out, your own blood must atone for it . . .

  Brigham Young

  Men, Blood, Covenant

  Brigham Young (1856). “Journal of Discourses”, p.247

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• I learned what I need to do in the long jump, what I needed to do in the javelin and I've been able to rectify those events. It's been a bit of a learning curve, which is good.

  Jessica Ennis

  Curves, Long, Events

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Since the Kingstonfirst BID started in January 2005, retailers have enjoyed three years of impressive sales growth, which has taken many of us to the top of our peer group. The BID period has also seen Kingston rise to 12th place according to Experian, and 13th place according to the Javelin Venuescore, in their respective retail super leagues of UK town and city centres. I am confident the platform that our BID provides will allow us to continue to maintain Kingston as the place that people love to shop and visit.

  David Barford

  Taken, Years, Cities

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• I had one good racket, a Wilson Javelin. It was my favorite racket, and I made the mistake of putting it next to the heater. It just got so hot that it melted.

  Stefan Edberg

  Mistake, Hot, Next

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• the [coat] rack above his head like a javelin. On the other side of the door was Jace. He blinked. "Is that a coatrack?" Jordan slammed the coatrack down on the ground and sighed. "If you'd been a vampire, this would have been a lot more useful." "Yes," said Jace. "Or, you know, just someone with a lot of coats.

  Cassandra Clare

  Doors, Vampire, Coats

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• We know it's all just daydreaming. In all likelihood, no one in this forest'll ever get a javelin, and I'll never see my mother's kingdom again, let alone be hailed by crowds as the jewel of Kildenree. Maybe it's vain to wish for it. But sometimes, it'd be nice just to hold something real in your hands that felt like a measure of your worth. Right Finn?

  Shannon Hale

  Mother, Real, Nice

  Shannon Hale (2010). “The Goose Girl”, p.280, A&C Black

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