Throwing Quotes - Page 8

• In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Bridges, Giving, Solitude

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• We are about to change history, said Saphira. We’re throwing ourselves off a cliff without knowing how deep the water below is. Ah, but what a glorious flight! (Eragon to Saphira)

  Christopher Paolini

  Knowing, Water, Cliffs

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.680, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Most of Set’s forces were running towards our boat, screaming and throwing rocks (which tended to fall down and hit them, but no one says demons are bright).

  Rick Riordan

  Running, Fall, Rocks

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• A freedom which is interested only in denying freedom must be denied. And it is not true that the recognition of the freedom of others limits my own freedom: to be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future; the existence of others as a freedom defines my situation and is even the condition of my own freedom. I am oppressed if I am thrown into prison, but not if I am kept from throwing my neighbor into prison.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Able, Limits, Recognition

  Simone de Beauvoir (1948). “The Ethics of Ambiguity”

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• This life is filled with threats and danger, David. We face those that we have to face, and there will be times when we must make the choice to act for the greater good, even at risk to ourselves, but we do not lay down our lives needlessly. Each of us has only one life to live, and one life to give. There is no glory in throwing it away where there is no hope.

  John Connolly

  Giving, Choices, Risk

  John Connolly (2006). “The Book of Lost Things: A Novel”, p.175, Simon and Schuster

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• It baffles me that people think that obliterating the past will save them from its consequences, as if throwing away the empty cake plate would help you lose weight.

  Timothy B. Tyson

  Past, Thinking, Cake

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• Now there’s a sight you don’t see every day, huh? Two punked-out Goths throwing a Christmas party for sick children. (Doctor)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Children, Party, Doctors

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• You were the kind of kid who couldn't see the difference between throwing rocks at a cat and setting it on fire.

  Terry Pratchett

  Cat, Kids, Fire

  "Fictional character: Susan". "Terry Pratchett's Hogfather", www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• I'm interested in having fun with ideas, throwing them up in the air like confetti and then running under them.

  Ray Bradbury

  Running, Fun, Air

  Ray Bradbury, Sam Weller (2012). “Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews”, p.306, Melville House

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• If only Sam could have stayed just like the Dog, she thought. A comforting friend without the complication of romantic interest.There had to be something she could do to completely discourage him, short of throwing up, or making herself totally unattractive. "I'm thirty-five," she said at last.

  Garth Nix

  Dog, Comforting, Unattractive

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• My mom was a ventriloquist and she always was throwing her voice. For ten years I thought the dog was telling me to kill my father.

  Wendy Liebman

  Funny, Mom, Mother

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• A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Good Life, Feelings, Certain

  Barbara Kingsolver (2012). “Flight Behaviour”, p.5, Faber & Faber

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• Real mothers don't just listen with humble embarrassment to the elderly lady who offers unsolicited advice in the checkout line when a child is throwing a tantrum. We take the child, dump him in the lady's cart, and say, "Great. Maybe you can do a better job." Real mothers know that it's okay to eat cold pizza for breakfast. Real mothers admit it is easier to fail at this job than to succeed.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mother, Jobs, Children

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.178, Simon and Schuster

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• Your daughter is doing well here. I've been overseeing her training." Since when does "overseeing" include throwing knives at me and scolding me at every opportunity?

  Veronica Roth

  Daughter, Opportunity, Knives

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• A strong woman is a woman at work, cleaning out the cesspool of the ages, and while she shovels, she talks about how she doesn't mind crying, it opens the ducts of the eyes, and throwing up develops the stomach muscles, and she goes on shoveling with tears in her nose.

  Marge Piercy

  Strong Women, Eye, Justice

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Moon Is Always Female”, p.76, Knopf

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• I should have my own show by now. Yeah. How many damn sitcoms does Kelsey Grammer need? How many more stupid Housewives do they need throwing tables and limbs at each other. Yeah, I guess I need to take off my artificial leg and throw it at Vanderpump. I like doing live shows - it's just getting to them that's a hassle.Doing films is fun too ... a good film ... but there's a lot of waiting around.

  Judy Tenuta

  Fun, Stupid, Waiting Around

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I-I don't usually go around throwing rocks at people's windows. Or saying that I've wanted to kiss you since your first day at work, when you wanted to know why we had three codes for fish sandwiches when we only sold one kind.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Kissing, Rocks, People

  Elizabeth Scott (2009). “Something, Maybe”, p.196, Simon and Schuster

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• Nora: What are you planning? Patch: I wouldn't call this planning. I'd call this throwing a Hail Mary with seconds left on the clock.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Planning, Clock, Hail Mary

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• Ah, if I were dictator I'd have poets throwing bombs!

  Gregory Corso

  Bombs, Dictator, Poet

  Gregory Corso, Bill Morgan (2003). “An Accidental Autobiography: The Selected Letters of Gregory Corso”, p.5, New Directions Publishing

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• No, this is throwing up like coming off the tilt-a-whirl at age seven, like discovering that dead rat under the porch, like finding out someone you loved never loved you at all.

  Megan Abbott

  Age, Tilt, Rats

  Megan Abbott (2012). “Dare Me: A Novel”, p.149, Hachette UK

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• Here's the thing. I hate kids. Always have. I mean, I know the job of the race, biologically speaking, is to achieve immortality through reproduction, but the idea of getting impregnated and blowing up like a balloon as I serve as a carrier and service unit for this other person who will eventually burst out of me in the most terrifying way imaginable, then carry on using me one way or another for the rest of my life, is right up there with throwing myself off the top of a twenty-story building. If I have a biological clock, it is digital and does not tick.

  Isobelle Carmody

  Jobs, Hate, Mean

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• He is a man of the Night's Watch, She thought, as he sang about some stupid lady throwing herself off some stupid tower because her stupid prince was dead. The lady should go kill the ones who killed her prince. Arya Stark (page 514)

  George R. R. Martin

  Stupid, Night, Men

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.3184, Bantam

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• For a moment, they all stood staring at each other. Then Holly shattered the stillness by throwing herself at Angela. "God, Angie!" she exclaimed, arms locked around her neck. "What Happened?

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Hollies, Arms, Necks

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “Unspoken (The Lynburn Legacy Book 1)”, p.355, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• I know you can be fined for throwing a club, but I want to know if you can get fined for throwing a caddie?

  Tommy Bolt

  Golf, Caddies, Clubs

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• Nico started to crawl away, groaning. Percy wanted him to move faster and groan less. He considered throwing his wonder bread at him.

  Rick Riordan

  Moving, Bread, Wonder

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