Thrown Quotes - Page 23

• Temptations will no more prevail over a contented man, than a dart that is thrown against a brazen wall.

  Jeremiah Burroughs

  Wall, Men, Temptation

  Jeremiah Burroughs, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor (2015). “The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment”, p.140, Lulu.com

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• I mean, nobody's ever thrown a big rock at me or my friends, but we're all pretty tough guys and could probably handle it.

  Zach Braff

  Mean, Rocks, Guy

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• When she was thrown into the air by a savage bull in the amphitheatre at Carthage, her first thought and action when she fell to the ground was to rearrange her dress to cover her thigh, because she was more concerned for modesty than pain.

  Pope Pius XII

  Pain, Air, Bulls

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• What use is it to us to hear it said of a man that he has thrown off the yoke that he does not believe there is a God to watch over his actions, that he reckons himself the sole master of his behavior, and that he does not intend to give an account of it to anyone but himself?

  Blaise Pascal

  Christian, Believe, Men

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• I've always known that the best part of writing occurs before you've picked up a pen. When a story exists only in your mind, its potential is infinite; it's only when you start pinning words to paper that it becomes less than perfect. You have to make your choices, set your limits. Start whittling away at the cosmos, and don't stop until you've narrowed it down to a single, ordinary speck of dirt. And in the end, what you've made is not nearly as glorious as what you've thrown away.

  Carolyn Parkhurst

  Writing, Perfect, Choices

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• A party is a political tool. If it's no longer useful, it should be crumpled up and thrown away.

  Shintaro Ishihara

  Party, Political, Tools

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• I think that everyone who is going to really move up has got to go through some trauma...I'm much more respected in my new job, than I was as the head of the Warner Group, because I survived being thrown out the window, going splat on the concrete, and walking.

  Doug Morris

  Jobs, Moving, Thinking

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• It is one of the greatest problems. It will appear very paradoxical, but this is true - before you can lose your ego, you must attain it. Only a ripe fruit falls to the ground. Ripeness is all. An unripe ego cannot be thrown, cannot be destroyed. And if you struggle with an unripe ego to destroy and dissolve it, the whole effort is going to be a failure. Rather than destroying it, you will find it more strengthened, in new and subtle ways.

  Rajneesh

  Fall, Struggle, Effort

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• In the East all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East everybody is against the ego from the very beginning. Because of this anti attitude, ego never becomes strong, never comes to a point of integration from where it can be thrown. It is never ripe. So in the East it is very difficult to dissolve the ego, almost impossible.

  Rajneesh

  Strong, Attitude, Ego

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• I am a neat hand at cookery, and I'll tell you what I knocked up for my Christmas-eve dinner in the Library Cart. I knocked up a beefsteak-pudding for one, with two kidneys, a dozen oysters, and a couple of mushrooms thrown in. It's a pudding to put a man in good humour with everything, except the two bottom buttons of his waistcoat.

  Charles Dickens

  Couple, Men, Hands

  M. R. James, Arthur Conan Doyle, Saki, Sabine Baring-Gould, Thomas Hardy (2017). “Spooky Christmas: 30+ Supernatural & Eerie Tales: Ghost Stories, Horror Tales & Legends: The Silver Hatchet, Wolverden Tower, The Wolves of Cernogratz, The Box with the Iron Clamps, The Grave by the Handpost, The Ghost’s Touch…”, p.285, e-artnow

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• I was taught from childhood of the sanctity of food. Not a piece of bread could be thrown away without kissing it and raising it to one's eyes as with all things holy.

  Attia Hosain

  Eye, Kissing, Childhood

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• If we accept all that is wrong about us - and despite it, believe that we are deserving of a happy life - then we will have thrown open an immense window that will allow love to enter.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Believe, Happy Life

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• At the utmost, the active-minded young man should ask of his teacher only mastery of his tools. The young man himself, the subject of education, is a certain form of energy; the object to be gained is economy of his force; the training is partly the clearing away of obstacles, partly the direct application of effort. Once acquired, the tools and models may be thrown away.

  Henry Adams

  Education, Teacher, Men

  Henry Adams (2008). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.12, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Actually the best thing I did was to get thrown out by my wife. She's living with a fitness instructor. He drinks that yellow stuff in tins. He's an idiot.

  Steve Coogan

  Funny, Yellow, Wife

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• The further a device is removed from human control, the more authentically mechanical it seems, and the whole trend in technology has been to devise machines that are less and less under direct human control and more and more under their own apparent will.

  Isaac Asimov

  Technology, Hands, Independence

  "Past, Present, and Future".

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• Monk was a gentle person, gentle and beautiful, but he was strong as an ox. And if I had ever said something about punching Monk out in front of his face - and I never did - then somebody should have just come and got me and taken me to the madhouse, because Monk could have just picked my little ass up and thrown me through a wall.

  Miles Davis

  Beautiful, Strong, Wall

  Miles Davis, Quincy Troupe (1990). “Miles”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• There are many times in my life, when I could've thrown in the towel. Many times in my life when I was on the floor. And when you're on the floor, never allow anybody to pick you up. It doesn't matter how long you stay there, make sure you pick yourself up and dust yourself down. Whatever happens, whether you go home today or you don't go home today, that's irrelevant. What's relevant, is you take the knowledge from the experience and you grow as a person.

  Marco Pierre White

  Home, Dust, Long

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• Don't forget that Linux became only possible because 20 years of OS research was carefully studied, analyzed, discussed and thrown away.

  Ingo Molnar

  Years, Research, Linux

  Linux Kernel mailing list, 1999.

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• A rainbow every morning who would pause
  to look at? The wonderful which comes often or is plentifully about us is soon taken for granted. Th at is practical enough. It allows us to get on with life. But it may stultify if it
  cannot on occasion be thrown off . To recapture now and then childhood’s wonder, is to secure a driving force
  for occasional grown-up thoughts.

  Charles Scott Sherrington

  Morning, Taken, Rainbow

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• Neil Sullivan has stopped absolutely everything have thrown at him...Wimbledon 1, Manchester United 1.

  Mike Ingham

  Soccer, Football, Wimbledon

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• My biographer said that my parties reminded them of a vicarage tea party, with sex thrown in.

  Cynthia Payne

  Sex, Party, Tea

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• The return of democracy in our land has indeed thrown the problems of development into bolder relief.

  Ibrahim Babangida

  Land, Democracy, Relief

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• The words, gestures, and threats of our officers were thrown away upon men who had lost all presence of mind and only longed for absence of body.

  Andrew Potter

  War, Men, Presence Of Mind

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• Generally, I end up being the one thrown against the wall, because Zach is the drummer. He's stronger than me.

  Isaac Hanson

  Wall, Stronger, Drummer

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• Don't let yourself be thrown away....Continue on no matter what....Continue to make a positive effort for the good.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Effort, Swagger, Matter

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