Thrown Quotes - Page 12

• That is something I'm specifically equipped to discuss - how reputation can affect even your capacity to rent a place. Having good credit is irrelevant in the face of something like getting thrown out of court six years ago. I've really thought this out.

  Courtney Love

  Years, Credit, Faces

  Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. May 1, 2014.

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• It is convenient for the old men to blame Eve. To insist we are damned because a country girl talked to the snake one afternoon long ago. Children must starve in Somalia for that, and old women be abandoned in our greatest cities. It’s why we will finally be thrown into the lakes of molten lead. Because she was confused by happiness that first time anyone said she was beautiful. Nevertheless, she must be the issue, so people won’t notice that rocks and galaxies, mathematics and rust are also created in His image.

  Jack Gilbert

  Beautiful, Girl, Country

  Jack Gilbert (2012). “Collected Poems”, p.382, Knopf

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• From the loving example of one family a whole State may become loving, and from its courtesies, courteous; while from the ambition and perverseness of the one man the whole State may be thrown into rebellious disorder. Such is the nature of influence.

  Confucius

  Ambition, Men, Example

  Confucius (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Confucius - Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism (Illustrated)”, p.1142, Delphi Classics

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• If you throw one stone, it’s a punishable offence. If 1,000 stones are thrown, it’s political action. If you set a car on fire, it’s a punishable offence. If hundreds of cars are set on fire, it’s political action. Protest is when I say I don’t agree with something. Resistance is when I ensure that things with which I disagree no longer take place.

  Ulrike Meinhof

  Fire, Car, Political

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• I dare say you marvel sometimes at my independent way of walking through the world just as if nature had made me of your sex instead of poor Eve's. Trust me, my beloved friend, the mind has no sex but what habit and education give it, and I who was thrown in infancy upon the world like a wreck upon the waters have learned, as well to struggle with the elements as any male child of Adam.

  Frances Wright

  Sex, Children, Struggle

  Letter to Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, on February 11, 1822. "Lafayette in Two Worlds" by Lloyd Kramer, p. 158, 1996.

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• That to this mountain-daisy's self were known The beauty of its star-shaped shadow, thrown On the smooth surface of this naked stone!

  William Wordsworth

  Stars, Self, Shadow

  1844 'So fair so sweet', stanza 2 (published 1845).

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• A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic. They make frantic efforts to bar our thoughts and words; they are afraid of the workings of the human mind.

  Winston Churchill

  Effort, Mind, Bars

  Winston Churchill (1951). “War speeches”

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• What matter and opportunity [for thy activity] art thou avoiding? For what else are all these things, except exercises for the reason, when it has viewed carefully and by examination into their nature the things which happen in life? Persevere then until thou shalt have made these things thy own, as the stomach which is strengthened makes all things its own, as the blazing fire makes flame and brightness out of everything that is thrown into it.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Art, Exercise, Opportunity

  Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.62, Lulu.com

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• I am not surprised that there are gambling houses, like so many snares laid for human avarice; like abysses where many a man's money is engulfed and swallowed up without any hope of return; like frightful rocks against which the gamblers are thrown and perish.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Gambling, Rocks

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• All men are just accumulations dolls stuffed with sawdust swept up from the trash heaps where all previous dolls had been thrown away.

  William Faulkner

  Men, Dolls, Sawdust

  William Faulkner (2011). “FAULKNER READER”, p.172, Modern Library

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• You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery. If nothing in life is worth dying for, when did this begin-just in the face of this enemy? Or should Moses have told the children of Israel to live in slavery under the pharaohs? Should Christ have refused the cross? Should the patriots at Concord Bridge have thrown down their guns and refused to fire the shot heard 'round the world? The martyrs of history were not fools, and our honored dead who gave their lives to stop the advance of the Nazis didn't die in vain.

  Ronald Reagan

  Sweet, Children, Believe

  A Time for Choosing (aka "The Speech"), Air date 27 October 1964, Los Angeles, CA

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• Nothing bonds a group of people better when they are thrown into a situation where they have no idea what's going on and what's going to happen.

  Michael Stahl-David

  Ideas, People, Groups

  "Cloverfield – Interview with Michael Stahl-David". Tribute Interview, www.tribute.ca. January 1, 2008.

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• Being hated and hunted and blamed for your own suffering makes people kind of testy, nervous, and on edge, and often fundamentalist and extreme. Bombs get thrown only when people cannot honestly talk together.

  Roseanne Barr

  People, Suffering, Together

  "Roseanne Barr Says Israel Must End Their Blockade and Occupation of Gaza". Interview with Kathleen Wells, www.huffingtonpost.com.

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• Work almost always has a double aspect: it is a bondage, a wearisome drudgery; but it is also a source of interest, a steadying element, a factor that helps to integrate the worker with society. 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

  Retirement, Work, Holiday

  Simone de Beauvoir (1972). “La vieillesse”

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• We see buildings in Britain mostly as freestanding objects. They are not meant to have a dialogue with anything around them, or with history, or with ideas of any kind beyond the self-referential. What we call 'regeneration' is largely an excuse for building for maximum profit with a bit of sculptural design thrown in to catch the eye of the media.

  David Chipperfield

  Eye, Self, Media

  "In Britain, money and marketing are what matter most" by Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2005.

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• Perhaps the most important thing I could say is to never be thrown by failure and mistakes. Each and everything that happens, even if it was not what you hoped would happen, is a valuable, life-learning tool. And you will only achieve success if you know how to learn from your failures and mistakes. It’s vital.

  Christiane Amanpour

  Mistake, Important, Tools

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• I tried to dance in my earlier films, but it was more like struggling to stay afloat once you are thrown into the water.

  Emraan Hashmi

  Struggle, Water, Film

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• Today and over the foreseeable future,traditional capitalism throughout most of the world has been thrown on a defensive from which it is doubtful that it can never recover.

  Robert Heilbroner

  Today, World, Capitalism

  "The Future As History". Book by Robert Heilbroner, Chapter II, Part 7, The Drift Away From Capitalism, p. 94, 1960.

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• From the circumstances of my position, I was often thrown into the society of horse-racers, card-players, fox-hunters, scientific and professional men, and of dignified men; and many a time have I asked myself, in the enthusiastic moment of the death of a fox, the victory of a favorite horse, the issue of a question eloquently argued at the bar, or in the great council of the nation, well, which of these kinds of reputation should I prefer? That of a horse-jockey, a fox-hunter, an orator, or the honest advocate of my country's rights?

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Horse, Player

  Thomas Jefferson (1853). “The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private”, p.389

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• A good woman's arms round a man's neck is a lifebelt thrown out to him from heaven.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Women, Heaven, Good Woman

  Jerome K. Jerome “The Selected Work of Jerome K. Jerome”, Library of Alexandria

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• If Macintosh hadn't been successful, then I should have just thrown in the towel, because my vision of the whole industry would have been totally wrong.

  Steve Jobs

  Successful, Should Have, Vision

  "Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs". Interview With David Sheff, reprints.longform.org. February 1985.

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• To break out of the chaos of my darkness Into a lucid day is all my will. My words like eyes in night, stare to reach A centre for their light: and my acts thrown To distant places by impatient violence Yet lock together to mould a path of stone Out of my darkness into a lucid day.

  Stephen Spender

  Eye, Night, Light

  Stephen Spender (1966). “World Within World: The Autobiography of Stephen Spender”, p.5, Univ of California Press

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• The order and harmony of the Western world, its most famous achievement, and a laboratory in which structures of a complexity as yet unknown are being fashioned, demand the elimination of a prodigious mass of noxious by-products which now contaminate the globe. The first thing we see as we travel round the world is our own filth, thrown into the face of mankind.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Order, Achievement, World

  Claude Levi-Strauss (2012). “Tristes Tropiques”, p.44, Penguin

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• Yes, I spent two long years, traveling all over the United States, all over Europe, interviewing many, many, many people who had been thrown out of their academic jobs because they taught that there was a possibility of life coming from something other than Darwinism, who thought that possibly random selection and mutations didn't account for the universe, didn't account for gravity, didn't account for why nobody had ever seen an individual species evolve - no one's ever seen an individual species evolve!

  Ben Stein

  Jobs, Two, Years

  Fox News Documentary, April 14, 2008.

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• When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.

  Anthony Trollope

  Sex, One Direction, Married

  Anthony Trollope (185?). “Phineas Redux”, p.52

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