Thrown Quotes - Page 2

• The words of some men are thrown forcibly against you and adhere like burrs.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Burrs

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.23, Heron Dance Press

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• Offensive acts come back upon the evil doer, like dust that is thrown against the wind.

  Gautama Buddha

  Dust, Wind, Evil

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• You can never become a great man or woman until you have overcome anxiety, worry, and fear. It is impossible for an anxious person, a worried one, or a fearful one to perceive truth; all things are distorted and thrown out of their proper relations by such mental states, and those who are in them cannot read the thoughts of God.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Inspirational, God, Religious

  Wallace D. Wattles (2015). “The Science of Being Great: Personal Self-Help Book of Wallace D. Wattles (Unabridged): From one of The New Thought pioneers, author of The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Well, How to Get What You Want, Hellfire Harrison, How to Promote Yourself and A New Christ”, p.17, e-artnow

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• As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Character, Men, Fire

  "Pro Roscio Comodeo". Oration by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Section 17), circa 76 BC.

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• The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars; it is that from our very prison we should draw, from our own selves, images powerful enough to deny our own nothingness.

  Andre Malraux

  Stars, Powerful, Self

  "Man's Fate". Book by André Malraux, 1933.

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• The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Fire, Flames

  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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• It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable.

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot

  Reflection, Energy, Strange

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot (1890). “Ordination Addresses and Counsels to Clergy”

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• I was very, very thrown by the fact that I had to make some big changes in my life in order to be myself, but under this kind of movie-star banner.

  Kate Winslet

  Stars, Order, Facts

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• Actually, because I'm so small, when I strike an open A chord I get physically thrown to the left, and when I play an open G chord I go right. That's how hard I play, and that's how a lot of my stage act has come about. I just go where the guitar takes me.

  Angus Young

  Play, Guitar, Chords

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• There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams -- not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way. No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Dream, Passion, Heart

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “(The Great Gatsby)”, p.57, F. Scott Fitzgerald

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• He domesticated and developed the native wild flowers. He had one hill-side solidly clad with that low-growing purple verbena which mats over the hills of New Mexico. It was like a great violet velvet mantle thrown down in the sun; all the shades that the dyers and weavers of Italy and France strove for through centuries, the violet that is full of rose colour and is yet not lavender; the blue that becomes almost pink and then retreats again into sea-dark purple—the true Episcopal colour and countless variations of it.

  Willa Cather

  Flower, Dark, Sea

  Willa Cather (1999). “Death Comes for the Archbishop”, p.279, U of Nebraska Press

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• All writers should be put in a box and thrown in the sea.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Funny, Sea, Boxes

  "Lives of the Saints" by Lawrence Wright, www.newyorker.com. January 21, 2002.

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• Come away, come away, Death, And in sad cypress let me be laid; Fly away, fly away, breath, I am slain by a fair cruel maid. My shroud of white stuck all with yew, O prepare it! My part of death no one so true did share it. Not a flower, not a flower sweet, On my black coffin let there be strewn: Not a friend, not a friend greet My poor corpse, where my bones shall be thrown. A thousand thousand sighs to save, lay me O where Sad true lover never find my grave, to weep there!

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Flower, White

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 4, l. 51

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• No more photos. Surely there are enough. No more shadows of myself thrown by light onto pieces of paper, onto squares of plastic. No more of my eyes, mouths, noses, moods, bad angles. No more yawns, teeth, wrinkles. I suffer from my own multiplicity. Two or three images would have been enough, or four, or five. That would have allowed for a firm idea: This is she. As it is, I'm watery, I ripple, from moment to moment I dissolve into my other selves. Turn the page: you, looking, are newly confused. You know me too well to know me. Or not too well: too much.

  Margaret Atwood

  Confused, Eye, Ideas

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Tent”, p.23, Anchor

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• not every boy thrown to the wolves becomes a hero.

  John Barth

  Hero, Boys

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• That's what I told myself five hundred times: impossibility. I can tell you this much: the word is a great big log thrown on the fires of love. ~Page 133.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Fire, Hundred, Bigs

  FaceBook post by Sue Monk Kidd from Feb 23, 2014

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• Do you see, Arren, how an act is not, as young men think, like a rock that one picks up and throws, and it hits or misses, and that's the end of it. When that rock is lifted, the earth is lighter; the hand that bears it is heavier. When it is thrown, the circuits of the stars respond, and where it strikes or falls the universe is changed.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Stars, Fall, Thinking

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “The Farthest Shore”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

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• Nights were the worst. I'd try to get some sleep, only to be thrown out of bed and dragged out into the compound for another game of "Let's whack Bobby in the dark!" - Bobby Pendragon, RoZ

  D. J. MacHale

  Sleep, Dark, Night

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• … in the relentless and meaningless manner one searches for something in a nightmare, coming on doors that won’t open or drawers that won’t shut, struggling over and over against the same meaningless thing, not knowing why the effort seems so desperate, why the sudden sight of a chair with a shawl thrown over it inspires the mind with horror.

  Anne Rice

  Struggle, Sight, Doors

  Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.600, Ballantine Books

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• There, he had seen every thing to exalt in his estimation the woman he had lost, and there begun to deplore the pride, the folly, the madness of resentment, which had kept him from trying to regain her when thrown in his way.

  Jane Austen

  Pride, Trying, Way

  Jane Austen (2011). “Persuasion: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.163, Penguin

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• The lustful glances thrown his way made me wish he wasn’t such a damned bowl of eye candy." - Cat re: Bones

  Jeaniene Frost

  Cat, Eye, Wish

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• How much salt water thrown away in waste/ To season love, that of it doth not taste.

  William Shakespeare

  Water, Taste, Waste

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1809). “Troilus and Cressida. Romeo and Juliet”, p.276

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• There is absolutely no such thing as reading but by a candle. We have tried the affectation of a book at noon-day in gardens, and in sultry arbours, but it was labor thrown away. Those gay motes in the beam come about you, hovering and teasing, like so many coquets, that will have you all to their self, and are jealous of your abstractions. By the midnight taper, the writers digests his meditations. By the same light we must approach to their perusal, if we would catch the flame, the odour.

  Charles Lamb

  Book, Reading, Jealous

  Charles Lamb (1894). “The Essays of Elia and The Last Essays of Elia”, New York : Frederick A. Stokes Company

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• I woke up, a bag of bones. Literally. They had gathered up my bones and put them in a bag and thrown the bag into a river.

  Derek Landy

  Rivers, Bags, Bones

  Derek Landy (2013). “Skulduggery Pleasant:”, p.31, HarperCollins UK

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• How everything you ever love will reject you or die. Everything you ever create will be thrown away. Everything you're proud of will end up as trash.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Rejects You, Proud, Trash

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Fight Club”, p.201, Random House

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