Thrown Quotes - Page 22

Everyone in the life before was cranky, I think, because they just wanted to know. --After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned

Dave Eggers

Thinking, Rivers, Cranky

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At heart, he could not abide sense in women: he liked to see them as silly, as light-headed, as vain, as open to ridicule as possible; because they were then in reality what he held them to be, and wished them to be,--inferior: toys to play with, to amuse a vacant hour and to be thrown away.

Charlotte Bronte

Silly, Heart, Reality

Charlotte Bronte (2010). “Shirley and The Professor”, p.119, Everyman's Library

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The act of imagination is the opening of the system so that it shows new connections. Every act of act of imagination is the discovery of likenesses between two things which were thought unlike. An example is Newton’s thinking of the likeness between the thrown apple and moon sailing majestically in the sky. Hence, the ‘discovery’ of the laws of gravity.

Jacob Bronowski

Moon, Thinking, Discovery

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It is only by enlarging the scope of one’s tastes and one’s fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that the unfortunate individual called Man, thrown despite himself into this sad world, can succeed in gathering a few roses among life’s thorns

Marquis de Sade

Sacrifice, Men, Sacrificing Everything

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That's the trouble with having the whole world love you. One day, you wake up and it's flirting with your best friend instead. And you don't know what to do. You're thrown.

Sophie Kinsella

Love You, Flirting, World Love

Sophie Kinsella (2009). “Shopaholic Abroad: (Shopaholic Book 2)”, p.315, Random House

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The reader must come armed , in a serious state of intellectual readiness. This is not easy because he comes to the text alone. In reading, one's responses are isolated, one'sintellect thrown back on its own resourses. To be confronted by the cold abstractions of printed sentences is to look upon language bare, without the assistance of either beauty or community. Thus, reading is by its nature a serious business. It is also, of course, an essentially rational activity.

Neil Postman

Reading, Community, Intellectual

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...as if someone had thrown a hand grenade into the middle of a teddy bear orgy and the only survivors had had their fur blown off.

Christopher Moore

Sex, Hands, Survivor

Christopher Moore (2009). “You Suck: A Love Story”, p.19, Harper Collins

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I have been almost overwhelmed by the announcement of the sad event [Lincoln's assassination] which has so recently occurred. I feel incompetent to perform duties so important and responsible as those which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.

Andrew Johnson

Important, Events, Overwhelmed

Inaugural Address. Sunday Morning Chronicle, Washington, www.gutenberg.org. April 16, 1865.

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The surer of himself an admiral is, the finer the tactical development of his fleet, the better his captains, the more reluctant must he necessarily be to enter into a melee with equal forces, in which all these advantages will be thrown away, chance reign supreme, and his fleet be place on terms of equality with an assemblage of ships which have never before acted together.

Alfred Thayer Mahan

Together, Development, Sea Power

Alfred Thayer Mahan (2010). “Sea Power and World History: 1660-1783”, p.7, Fireship Press

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Every rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence produces random propaganda results. Why waste even a rock?

Abbie Hoffman

Rocks, Random Violence, Molotov Cocktail

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All the tenets that I had grown up with were thrown out the window.

Archie Shepp

Window

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No totalitarian authority nor authoritarian state can tolerate those who have an absolute by which to judge that state and its actions. The Christians had that absolute in God's revelation.

Francis Schaeffer

Christian, Rome, Judging

"How should we then live?: the rise and decline of western thought and culture".

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Love, it’s such a night, laced with running water, irreparable, riddled with a million leaks. A night shaped like a shadow thrown by your absence. Every crack trickles, every overhang drips. The screech of nighthawks has been replaced by the splash of rain. The rain falls from the height of streetlights. Each drop contains its own shattering blue bulb.

Stuart Dybek

Running, Rain, Fall

Stuart Dybek (2004). “The Coast of Chicago: Stories”, p.86, Picador

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Just because fate had thrown another obstacle in my way didn't mean I had to give up my dreams.

Jodi Picoult

Dream, Giving Up, Mean

Jodi Picoult (1995). “Harvesting the Heart: A Novel”, p.18, Penguin

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Consciousness rap - a term that I don't think exactly exists but gets thrown around a lot - is not exactly popular.

Macklemore

Rap, Thinking, Consciousness

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast in the very lap of fortune.

Benjamin Franklin

Achievement, Lap, Resources

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With uncertainty in one scale, courage and self-confidence should be thrown into the other to correct the balance. The greater they are, the greater the margin that can be left for accidents.

Carl von Clausewitz

Self Confidence, Balance, Should

Carl von Clausewitz (2008). “On War”, p.86, Princeton University Press

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But I plucked a new, different, worldly soul for myself -- maybe a soul I found in the spray thrown up by the surge of that distant African river as it plummets onto black rocks and sends up into the sun a permanent arc of a rainbow.

Alexandra Fuller

Rocks, Rivers, Rainbow

Alexandra Fuller (2014). “Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: Picador Classic”, p.38, Pan Macmillan

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It took me years, but letting go of religion has been the most profound wake up of my life. I feel I now look at the world not as a child, but as an adult. I see what's bad and it's really bad. But I also see what is beautiful, what is wonderful. And I feel so deeply appreciative that I am alive. How dare the religious use the term 'born again.' That truly describes freethinkers who've thrown off the shackles of religion so much better!

Julia Sweeney

Beautiful, Letting Go, Religious

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I think to be in exile is a curse, and you need to turn it into a blessing. Youve been thrown into exile to die, really, to silence you so that your voice cannot come home. And so my whole life has been dedicated to saying, I will not be silenced.

Ariel Dorfman

Home, Blessing, Thinking

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Gareth Jellyman has just been dismissed, I think he's thrown a
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Jeff Stelling

Thinking

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I was thrown into the Parliament right away. From 1976 to 1978 I was concerned with the abortion issue, later on with that of divorce.

Emma Bonino

Divorce, Issues, Abortion

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Live in the moment, just do it - those are phrases thrown around by people who don't know what they mean. Just do it - it's idiotic. You could slap that slogan on a picture of Hitler and it would make as much sense. He did it, all right.

Gregory Galloway

Mean, People, Live In The Moment

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Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day when one’s body and mind are at peace, one should meditate upon being ripped apart by arrows, rifles, spears and swords, being carried away by surging waves, being thrown into the midst of a great fire, being struck by lightning, being shaken to death by a great earthquake, falling from thousand-foot cliffs, dying of disease or committing seppuku at the death of one’s master. And every day without fail one should consider himself as dead

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Fall, Earthquakes, Inevitable Death

Yamamoto Tsunetomo (2012). “Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai”, p.154, Shambhala Publications

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In this mob of I's inside, which one is me? Hear me out. I know I'm wandering, but don't start putting a lid on this racket. No telling what I'll do then. Every moment I'm thrown by your story. One moment it's happy, and I'm singing. One moment it's sad, and I'm weeping. It turns bitter, and I pull away. But then you spill a little grace, and just like that, I'm all light. It's not so bad, this arrangement, actually.

Rumi

Light, Grace, Singing

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