Thrown Quotes - Page 17

• My father upon the Abbey stage, before him a raging crowd.
  "This Land of Saints," and then as the applause died out,
  "Of plaster Saints;" his beautiful mischievous head thrown back.

  William Butler Yeats

  Beautiful, Father, Land

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.309, Simon and Schuster

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• The shame would be if Democrats get thrown out of office without ever having tried Democratic policies.

  Bill Maher

  Office, Would Be, Shame

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• President Bush's campaign is now attacking John Kerry for throwing away some of his medals to protest the Vietnam War. Bush did not have any medals to throw away, but in his defense he did have all his services records thrown out.

  Jay Leno

  War, President, Defense

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• If thousands are thrown out of employment, it suggests that they were not well employed. Why don't they take the hint? It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Employment, Hints, Ants

  Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1865). “Letters to Various Persons”, p.161

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• The outline of the city became frantic in its effort to explain something that defied meaning. Power seemed to have outgrown its servitude and to have asserted its freedom. The cylinder had exploded, and thrown great masses of stone and steam against the sky.

  Henry Adams

  Power, Sky, Cities

  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.487, Booklassic

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• For myself I say deliberately, it is better to have a millstone tied round the neck and be thrown into the sea than to share the enterprises of those to whom the world has turned, and will turn, because they minister to its weaknesses and cover up the awful realities which it shudders to look at.

  Thomas Huxley

  Reality, Sea, Weakness

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1920). “Readings from Huxley”

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• As restrictions and prohibitions are multiplied the people grow poorer and poorer. When they are subjected to overmuch government, the land is thrown into confusion.

  Laozi

  Government, Land, People

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• I am not of the opinion generally entertained in this country [England], that man lives by Greek and Latin alone; that is, by knowing a great many words of two dead languages, which nobody living knows perfectly, and which are of no use in the common intercourse of life. Useful knowledge, in my opinion, consists of modern languages, history, and geography; some Latin may be thrown into the bargain, in compliance with custom, and for closet amusement.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Education, Country, Latin

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• Emulation, even in brutes, is sensitively "nervous." See the tremor of the thoroughbred racer before he starts. The dray-horse does not tremble, but he does not emulate. It is not his work to run a race. Says Marcus Antoninus, "It is all one to a stone whether it be thrown upward or downward." Yet the emulation of a man of genius is seldom with his contemporaries, that is, inwardly in his mind, although outwardly in his act it would seem so. The competitors with whom his secret ambition seems to vie are the dead.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Running, Horse, Ambition

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• The whole question of pornography seems to me a question of secrecy. Without secrecy there would be no pornography. But secrecy and modesty are two utterly different things. Secrecy has always an element of fear in it, amounting very often to hate. Modesty is gentle and reserved. Today, modesty is thrown to the winds, even in the presence of the grey guardians. But secrecy is hugged, being a vice in itself. And the attitude of the grey ones is: Dear young ladies, you may abandon all modesty, so long as you hug your dirty little secret.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Attitude, Hate, Dirty

  D. H. Lawrence (1966). “Selected Poems of D.h. Lawrence”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• I have lived one hundred years; and I die with the consolation of never having thrown the slightest ridicule upon the smallest virtue.

  Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

  Years, Virtue, Hundred

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• Frank W. Woolworth once told me that the turning-point in his career did not come until he was thrown flat on his back by illness. He was sure that his business would go to pieces during his long, enforced absence. Instead, he discovered that he had in his employ men who could overcome difficulties when given power to exercise initiative. After that Woolworth left many problems and difficulties to be solved by subordinates and turned his attention to big things.

  B. C. Forbes

  Exercise, Men, Careers

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• It has been the sad experience of many that much of the best and the most beautiful is lost to those whose mental food consists exclusively of the sensational paper or the cheap novel, or of that frothy mass of waste material which is thrown up like scum upon the molten metal of life--novelettes, serials, and fragments of a type which neither teach the ignorant, nor strengthen the weak, nor develop the immature.

  Charles Webster Leadbeater

  Beautiful, Ignorant, Immature

  Charles Webster Leadbeater (2007). “Vegetarianism and Occultism”, p.6, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The vicissitudes of life resemble one of those gilded balls seen in a fountain. Thrown up by the force of the water, it flies up and down - now at the top, catching the rays of the sun, now cast into the depths, then again shooting up, sometimes so high that it escapes altogether, and falls to the ground.

  Lady Randolph Churchill

  Life, Fall, Water

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• It is useless to check the vain dunce who has caught the mania of scribbling, whether prose or poetry, canzonets or criticisms,--let such a one go on till the disease exhausts itself. Opposition like water, thrown on burning oil, but increases the evil, because a person of weak judgment will seldom listen to reason, but become obstinate under reproof.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Oil, Water, Evil

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• Capacity without education is deplorable, and education without capacity is thrown away.

  Saadi

  Education, Capacity

  Saadi, Francis Gladwin, Eric Serejski (2016). “Gulistan or Rose Garden”, p.159, Innovations and Information

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• The history of the genesis or the old mythology repeats itself in the experience of every child. He too is a demon or god thrown into a particular chaos, where he strives ever to lead things from disorder into order.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Order, Chaos

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.226

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• What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Ungrateful

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• The most remarkable thing about Hollywood is that it does not exist. ... Hollywood, in a word, has no center, never had one, no city hall, court house, church, square, or rather it probably has some of those but they're so aimlessly thrown in with the general jumble ... that I, for one, never found them.

  Vicki Baum

  Squares, Cities, House

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• Americans are so often thrown by Japan. It looks familiar but, an inch below the surface, it isn't anything like the West at all.

  Cathy Davidson

  Japan, Looks, West

  Cathy N. Davidson (2006). “36 Views of Mount Fuji: On Finding Myself in Japan”, p.13, Duke University Press

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• During the present interval between the feudal age and the coming time, when life and its occupations will be freely thrown open to women as to men, the condition of the female working classes is such that if its sufferings were but made known, emotions of horror and shame would tremble through the whole of society.

  Harriet Martineau

  Men, Class, Suffering

  Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.178

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• I heard a fella say once he'd rather have a rose bud when he was alive than to have a whole rose garden thrown his way after he is gone. It looks like they've (the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1935) thrown the roses my way while I'm still here.

  Home Run Baker

  Baseball, Garden, Rose

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• Moral values have been thrown out the window. Christianity is out the window. And that's wrong. Parents should be at home, teaching kids right from wrong, making sure they get a great education so they can be a success in life.

  Albert Belle

  Teaching, Home, Kids

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• I ... received a few hugs and dutiful pecks on the cheek at bedtime, even a couple of 'thank-yous' thrown in for good measure. But I'd truly love for someone to explain why the father of my children can simply walk into the house, put down his briefcase, grunt 'Hi kids - howyadoing,' and all four offspring nearly hyperventilate trying to be the first to get close to him. They are crazy about this man, and all he has to do is walk into a room and breathe.

  Becky Freeman

  Couple, Children, Father

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• What a vindication of the belief that ordinary people can do extraordinary things, what a reminder of what Bobby Kennedy once said, about how small actions can be like pebbles being thrown into a still lake, and ripples of hope cascade outwards and change the world.

  Barack Obama

  Change, Lakes, People

  President Barack Obama's remarks on the Supreme Court Decision on Marriage Equality at the White House Rose Garden, Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 26, 2015.

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