Thrown Quotes - Page 14

• The late proceedings of those daring invaders to establish a national religion have opened the eyes of all lovers of liberty and religion... I have been told they have thrown off the mask and are preaching to the people to elect none but godly men to represent them in the General and State Legislatures; ... what they mean by godly people, is people of their own stamp.

  Anne Royall

  Mean, Eye, Godly

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• Man never ceases to seek knowledge about the objects of his experiences, to understand their meaning for his existence and to react to them according to his understanding. Finally, out of the sum total of the meanings that he has deduced from his contacts with numerous single objects of his environment there grows a unified view of the world into which he finds himself "thrown" (to use an existentialist term again) and this view is of the third order.

  Paul Watzlawick

  Men, Views, Order

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• In junior high in Germany I fought kids all the time. I had such a bad temper, I almost got thrown out of school. A few lickings from my dad got me out of that scene. He wore me out with a paddle.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Dad, School

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• I've thrown or broken a few clubs in my day. In fact, I guess at one time or another I probably held distance records for every club in the bag.

  Tommy Bolt

  Distance, Golf, Broken

  Tommy Bolt, William C. Griffith (1969). “How to keep your temper on the golf course”

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• When did I ever teach anything wrong from this stand? When was I ever confounded? I want to triumph in Israel before I depart hence and am no more seen. I never told you I was perfect; but there is no error in the revelations which I have taught. Must I, then, be thrown away as a thing of naught?

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Errors, Israel, Perfect

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• You know, you can try and plan [filming] as much as you want, but you get there on game day and you get thrown a curve ball, I guess, hey, the game plan goes out the window. You've got to adapt.

  Michael B. Jordan

  Curves, Games, Trying

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I have a son who's been raised Jewish because his mom is Jewish. I have a whole different set of holidays to celebrate. Everybody is thrown together with their family in such an intense way, opening all of that stuff again. You're cooped up with everybody and forced to exist with them, and you're forced to try to relate to them in this way that's more open. I guess that just doesn't work for a lot of people.

  Paul Giamatti

  Mom, Holiday, Son

  Source: collider.com

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• Any athlete or any actor who's preparing for a long time to step on a stage or step on a field or step on a movie set, who suffers an injury right before you're getting ready to perform or to execute - it is a massive challenge that's thrown your way that you didn't expect.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Athlete, Long, Challenges

  "Mythical Proportions: An Exclusive Interview With Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson". Interview with Matt Tuthill, www.muscleandfitness.com.

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• I've had a pretty crazy life. It's colorful ... reliving some of those closets that I had shut, locked and thrown away the key intentionally because it was painful to revisit a lot of those places - especially the loss of my buddy Robbie Tooley, the divorce of my parents, some of the things I went through as a kid, a lot of that stuff was locked up for a reason - it was painful. But at the same time, there was some therapy in revisiting some of those spots.

  Billy Ray Cyrus

  Crazy, Kids, Divorce

  "A Minute With: Billy Ray Cyrus on Miley and his "Hillbilly Heart". Interview with Piya Sinha-Roy, www.reuters.com. April 17, 2013.

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• The "r" word [racism] is a scary word to me - I don't like to say it. I'm not trying to say it doesn't exist. It's incredibly inflammatory and invites a lot of awful mistakes and injustices that have happened and still do happen. It's a word that has been thrown around in a way that incites a lot of bad feelings in most people.

  Brandi Chastain

  Mistake, Racism, People

  "Brandi Chastain talks about LeBron dustup". Interview with Dan Fleschner, www.today.com. March 27, 2008.

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• I was adored [as a kid]. I was always in the air, hurled up and kissed and thrown in the air again. Until I was six, my feet didn't touch the ground. "Look at those eyes! That nose! Those lips! That tooth! Get that child away from me, quick! I'll eat him!" Giving that up was very difficult later on in life.

  Mel Brooks

  Children, Kids, Eye

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• One thing I'm a big fan of is the theater of the absurd. That's what I come from, that's what I love to do more than anything. What I love about absurdity is the words "comedy" and "drama" get thrown out the window and it's just life, which is absurd.

  Michael Shannon

  Drama, Fans, Comedy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I've died so many times. I'm 65. On my 40th birthday, my girlfriend gave me a reel with ways I had died, whether it was by knife, or electrocution or drowning or being thrown off a building or whatever it might have been. I've died a lot of times!

  Jonathan Banks

  Girlfriend, Knives, Might

  "Q&A – Jonathan Banks (Mike)". AMC Interview, www.amc.com. August 2012.

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• The grandchildren of the kids who used to weep because the Little Match Girl froze to death now feel cheated if she isn't slugged, raped and thrown into a Bessemer converter.

  Jenkin Lloyd Jones

  Girl, Kids, Grandchildren

  Jenkin Lloyd Jones (1964). “The changing world: an editor's outlook”

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• How does it happen, Maecenas, that no one is content with that lot in life which he has chosen, or which chance has thrown in his way, but praises those who follow a different course?
  [Lat., Qui fit, Maecenas, ut nemo quam sibi sortem,
  Seu ratio dederit, seu fors objecerit, illa
  Contentus vivat? laudet diversa sequentes.]

  Horace

  Doe, Different, Ratios

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• It is seldom that we find out how great are our resources until we are thrown upon them.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Resources

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• I know now that everybody in the arts is forever a beginner. Experience counts for a great deal and very little. Every night onstage I feel I am starting from scratch, still not quite sure what I am doing and where I am going, thrown by the simplest thing that goes wrong.

  Joan Rivers

  Art, Night, Forever

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• We had rather do anything than acknowledge the merit of another if we can help it. We cannot bear a superior or an equal. Hence ridicule is sure to prevail over truth, for the malice of mankind, thrown into the scale, gives the casting weight.

  William Hazlitt

  Giving, Envy, Weight

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• A good saying often runs the risk of being thrown away when quoted as the speaker's own.
  [Fr., C'est souvent hasarder un bon mot et vouloir le perdre que de le donner pour sien.]

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Running, Risk, Quotations

  "Characters", II, 1688.

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• What may we expect of people who work all day and dance all night? After a while they will be thrown on society nervous, exhausted imbeciles.

  Thomas De Witt Talmage

  Night, People, Dancing

  Thomas De Witt Talmage (1892). “Trumpet Blasts, Or Mountain-top Views of Life: Comprising the Most Earnest Reasonings, Delightful Narratives, Poetic Imageries, Striking Similies, Fearless Denunciations of Wrong and Inspiring Appeals for the Right, that During His Whole Phenonomenal Career Have Been Given to the World”

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• Nature has thrown a veil of modest beauty over maidenhood and moss-roses.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Rose, Moss, Veils

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• And this is woman's fate: all her affections are called into life by winning flatteries, and then thrown back upon themselves to perish; and her heart, her trusting heart, filled with weak tenderness, is left to bleed or break!

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Heart, Fate, Winning

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1835). “The Miscellaneous Poetical Works”, p.173

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• How often, in this cold and bitter world, is the warm heart thrown back upon itself! Cold, careless, are we of another's grief; we wrap ourselves in sullen selfishness.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Grief, Heart, Selfishness

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1841). “Life and literary remains of L.E.L. [ed.] by L. Blanchard”

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• How joyously the young sea-mew
  Lay dreaming on the waters blue,
  Whereon our little bark had thrown
  A little shade, the only one;
  But shadows ever man pursue.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Dream, Men, Blue

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.581, Delphi Classics

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• If a man offend a harmless, pure, and innocent person, the evil falls back upon that fool, like light dust thrown up against the wind.

  Gautama Buddha

  Fall, Men, Dust

  Gautama Buddha (2013). “The Dhammapada”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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