Thrown Quotes - Page 12

What's exciting about using our mind is that we can short circuit all the excuses thrown up by our fears.

Mark Victor Hansen

Inspirational, Motivational, Mind

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Nobel Prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.

George Bernard Shaw

Swimming, Prize Money, Safety

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Anyone buying this book is going to be out a tidy sum if he is sucked in by the title. I wish I could write a real sexy book that would be barred from the mails. Apparently nothing whets a reader's appetite for literature more than the news that the author has been thrown into a federal pokey for disturbing the libido of millions of Americans.

Groucho Marx

Funny, Sexy, Real

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Sometimes when you're just thrown into something, you are more ready for it than when you have time to think it over and get nervous about it.

Lara Flynn Boyle

Thinking, Sometimes, Nervous

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The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Heaven, Hell, Idealist

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I think if a physician wrote on a death certificate that old age was the cause of death, he'd be thrown out of the union. There is always some final event, some failure of an organ, some last attack of pneumonia, that finishes off a life. No one dies of old age.

George Wald

Life, Science, Thinking

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In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be based on a new foundation, that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation. Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history.

Charles Darwin

Future, Science, Men

Charles Darwin (2003). “On the Origin of Species”, p.51, Broadview Press

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Now, I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil, having due regard for its actual existence amongst us and the difficulties of getting rid of it in any satisfactory way, and to all the constitutional obligations which have been thrown about it; but, nevertheless, desire a policy that looks to the prevention of it as a wrong, and looks hopefully to the time when as a wrong it may come to an end.

Abraham Lincoln

Country, Class, Evil

Abraham Lincoln (2017). “The Complete Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.905, Open Road Media

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Painting or poetry is made as one makes love - a total embrace, prudence thrown to the winds, nothing held back.

Joan Miro

Art, Wind, Making Love

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If you want to do Vipassana, or any silent meditation, Dynamic Meditation becomes absolutely essential, because Christianity having poisoned your mind, that poison has to be thrown out. You have to go completely crazy to throw it out; otherwise that craziness remains inside you, and won't allow you to get into a silent, watching, witnessing meditation.

Rajneesh

Crazy, Meditation, Mind

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Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation. He recounts the decency and regularity of former times, and celebrates the discipline and sobriety of the age in which his youth was passed; a happy age which is now no more to be expected, since confusion has broken in upon the world, and thrown down all the boundaries of civility and reverence.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Men, Discipline, Broken

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Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history.

Charles Darwin

Men, Light, Theory Of Evolution

Charles Darwin (1869). “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or, The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life”, p.578

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This is one of those big, fat paperbacks, intended to while away a monsoon or two, which, if thrown with a good overarm action, will bring a water buffalo to its knees.

Nancy Banks-Smith

Sarcastic, Two, Water

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Washington has thrown their soldiers on the fire.

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

Funny, Military, Fire

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But I think the image that's thrown out on television is a bad image. Because you see players who want to imitate hip-hop stars. And the NBA is taking advantage of the situation.

Oscar Robertson

Basketball, Stars, Thinking

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What we should be very concerned about is the excesses and the abuses. Where we see hunts where the fox is torn away out of the hole and thrown to the hounds, we have to be very concerned. Where we have hunts where foxes are bred for the sport of it, that is not pest control. That is pure bloody sport.

Huw Irranca-Davies

Sports, Hunting, Abuse

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It appears that all that can be, is. The Creator's hand does not appear to have been opened in order to give existence to a certain determinate number of species, but it seems that it has thrown out all at once a world of relative and non-relative creatures, an infinity of harmonic and contrary combinations and a perpetuity of destructions and replacements. What idea of power is not given us by this spectacle! What feeling of respect for its Author is not inspired in us by this view of the universe!

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

Nature, Science, Views

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I got thrown out of Alcoholics because when the other clients saw me they thought they were having the DT's

Dave Dutton

Alcohol, Saws, Clients

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I want so much for my lover. At night when our beds are drawn close together I waken and see his dear yellow head on the pillow - sometimes his arm thrown over on my bed - and I kiss his hand, very softly so that it will not waken him.

Dawn Powell

Kissing, Night, Hands

Dawn Powell (1998). “The Diaries of Dawn Powell: 1931-1965”, Zoland Books

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About a veteran player thrown out trying to steal second: There was larceny in his heart, but his legs were honest.

Arthur Baer

Honesty, Heart, Player

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The dark shadow we seem to see in the distance is not really a mountain ahead, but the shadow of the mountain behind - a shadow from the past thrown forward into our future. It is a dark sludge of historical sectarianism. We can leave it behind us if we wish.

David Trimble

Distance, Dark, Past

"Peace 1996-2000". Book by Irwin Abrams, 2005.

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A university is not, primarily, a place in which to learn how to make a living; it is a place in which to learn how to be more fully a human being, how to draw upon one's resources, how to discipline the mind and expand the imagination; how to make some sense out of the big world we will shortly be thrown into.

Sydney J. Harris

Life, Learning, Discipline

Sydney J. Harris (1964). “ON THE CONTRARY”

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Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls on the rails. Let us rise early and fast, or break fast, gently and without perturbation; let company come and let company go, let the bells ring and the children cry,-determine to make a day of it.

Henry David Thoreau

Life, Children, Fall

Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.153

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I have always felt that the great lottery of life is unfair. The fact is that I was thrown up on the stage of life called Australia. You don't choose where you are thrown on to this stage. So universal health, universal education, of course plenty of food and clean water.

Tim Costello

Leadership, Australia, Water

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She thought of the last couple of years: the boredom, the narrowness of existence, the dearth of anything to look forward to. Yet now, in a single instant, the curtains had been whipped aside, and the windows been thrown open onto a brillant view that had been there, waiting for her, all the time. A view, moreover, laden with the most marvellous possibilities and opportunities.

Rosamunde Pilcher

Couple, Opportunity, Views

Rosamunde Pilcher (2013). “The Shell Seekers”, p.354, Macmillan

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