Thrown Quotes

• If I had had me for a student I would have thrown me out of class immediately.

  Lynda Barry

  Class, Students, Ifs

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• Saturday Night Live is such a comedy boot camp in a way, because you get to work with so many different people who come in to host the show and you get thrown into so many situations and learn how to think on your feet, so filmmaking actually feels slow, in a good way.

  Will Ferrell

  Night, Thinking, Feet

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  A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

  David Brinkley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.

  Henry Adams

  America, Water, Society

  Henry Adams (1938). “Letters of Henry Adams ...: 1892-1918”, New York, Houghton

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• When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.

  Eric Cantona

  Soccer, Sports, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Work, People, President

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• Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.

  Arthur Helps

  Inspirational, Wise, Gratitude

  Sir Arthur Helps (1883). “Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd”

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• Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

  C. S. Lewis

  Motivational, Godly, Christian Inspirational

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• When you run after your thoughts, you are like a dog chasing a stick: every time a stick is thrown, you run after it. Instead, be like a lion who, rather than chasing after the stick, turns to face the thrower. One only throws a stick at a lion once.

  Milarepa

  Running, Dog, Lions

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• I feel greatly honored to have a ballpark named after me, especially since I've been thrown out of so many.

  Casey Stengel

  Sports, Ballparks, Feels

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• Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.

  Samuel Johnson

  Food, Cucumbers, Vinegar

  In James Boswell 'Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides' (1785) 5 October 1773

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• I feel incompetent to perform duties...which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.

  Andrew Johnson

  Presidential, Duty, Feels

  Andrew Johnson's Inaugural Address, www.nytimes.com. April 17, 1865.

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• Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.

  Heraclitus

  Death, Fit, Burial

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• I have never, honestly, thrown a chair in my life.

  Steve Ballmer

  Chairs, Honestly

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• Being thrown out of this place is significantly better than being thrown out of a leper colony.

  Blake Edwards

  Colony, Leper

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• Only last week I murdered a rock, injured a stone and hospitalized a brick.

  Muhammad Ali

  Rocks, Climbing, Boxing

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• This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.

  Dorothy Parker

  Book, Reading, Beer

  Quoted in The AlgonquinWits, ed. Robert E. Drennan (1968)

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• I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.

  Woody Allen

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

  Audio CD "Woody Allen: Stand-Up Comic 1964-1968", 1999.

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  Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it.

  Muhammad Ali

  Inspirational, Change, Power

  Muhammad Ali (2016). “Muhammad Ali Unfiltered: Rare, Iconic, and Officially Authorized Photos of the Greatest”, p.118, Simon and Schuster

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• For people who have... had curve balls thrown at them, it is easier to digest change and digest change in other people. Change only scares the small-minded. The small-minded and me.

  Casey Affleck

  Change, Curves, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Teacher, Retirement, Holiday

  Simone de Beauvoir (1972). “La vieillesse”

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• Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Life, Freedom, Responsibility

  Martin Heidegger, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre (2016). “The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Philosophy of Existentialism”, p.167, Open Road Media

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• I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

  Desmond Tutu

  Compassion, Rights, Tables

  1985 NBC News, 9 Jan.

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• Success is a process... During that journey sometimes there are stones thrown at you, and you convert them into milestones.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Journey, Stones, Sometimes

  FaceBook post by Sachin Tendulkar from Apr 12, 2017

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• There will always be some people who think for themselves, even among the self-appointed guardians of the great mass who, after having thrown off the yoke of immaturity themselves, will spread about them the spirit of a reasonable estimate of their own value and of the need for every man to think for himself.

  Immanuel Kant

  Men, Thinking, Self

  "Answering the Question: What is Enlightenment?". Essay by Immanuel Kant, 1784.

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