Thrown Quotes - Page 32

• Rules are, like an ashtray-in-progress, meant to be thrown, poked and reshaped to suit yourself.

  Sara Genn

  Progress, Suits, Ashtrays

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• Me personally, I'm a guy who it took a long time to figure out what I'm supposed to be doing. I relate to a lot of that finding oneself a little later in the game, or being thrown a curve later in the game.

  Kurt Sutter

  Curves, Games, Long

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• Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Fall, Snow, Heaven

  Bertolt Brecht, Ralph Manheim (1987). “Poems, 1913-1956”, p.99, Taylor & Francis

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• As long as society is absolutely divided as milk is, the cream being at the top and the impoverished milk at the bottom, so long will society be unbalanced, and liable to be thrown into convulsions out of which will spring wars. A circulation throughout keeps it in health.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Spring, War, Long

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• It may be seriously questioned whether the philosophies... which isolate mind and set it over against the world did not have their origin in the fact that the reflective or theoretical class of men elaborated a large stock of ideas which social conditions did not allow them to act upon and test. Consequently men were thrown back into their own thoughts as ends in themselves.

  John Dewey

  Philosophy, Men, Class

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.121, 谷月社

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• Everyone cleaves to the doctrine he has happened upon, as to a rock against which he has been thrown by tempest.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Rocks, Doctrine, Tempest

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• Pleasure, like a kind of bait, is thrown before everything which is really bad, and easily allures greedy souls to the hook of perdition.

  Epictetus

  Soul, Bait, Hook

  Epictetus (1890). “The Discourses of Epictetus: With the Encheiridion and Fragments”

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• I see the waves upon the shore, Like light dissolved in star-showers, thrown.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Stars, Light, Wave

  'Stanzas Written in Dejection, near Naples' (1818)

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• A gentleman does not appear to know more or to be more than those with whom he is thrown into company.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Gentleman, Doe, Company

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• I will tell you what man is. He is a freak, an ejected foetus robbed of his natural development, thrown out into the world with a naked covering of parchment, with too little room for his teeth and a soft bulging skull like a bubble. But nature stirs a pudding there.

  William Golding

  Men, Skulls, World

  "The World and the Book: A Study of Modern Fiction". Book by Gabriel Josipovici, 1971.

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• I do not like poems that resemble hay compressed into a geometrically perfect cube. I like it when the hay, unkempt, uncombed, with dry berries mixed in it, thrown together gaily and freely, bounces along atop some truck-and more, if there are some lovely and healthy lasses atop the hay-and better yet if the branches catch at the hay, and some of it tumbles to the road.

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko

  Perfect, Healthy, Lovely

  New York Times, February 2, 1986.

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• I came into science fiction at a very good time, when the doors were getting thrown open to all kinds of more experimental writing, more literary writing, riskier writing. It wasn't all imitation Heinlein or Asimov. And of course, women were creeping in, infiltrating. Infesting the premises.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Writing, Doors, Fiction

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• I became an altar boy because of the solemn face, but I got thrown out at fourteen for laughing. Because the priest used to mumble everything except the church plate takings.

  Elvis Costello

  Boys, Laughing, Church

  "The Dubliner". Interview with Alan Franks, March 2, 2002.

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• A nature wise With finding in itself the types of all, With watching from the dim verge of the time What things to be are visible in the gleams Thrown forward on them from the luminous past, Wise with the history of its own frail heart, With reverence and sorrow, and with love, Broad as the world, for freedom and for man.

  James Russell Lowell

  Wise, Heart, Character

  James Russell Lowell (1857). “Miscellaneous poems. Memorial verses. Sonnets. I-XXVII. L'Envoi. Vision of Sir Launfal”, p.81

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• Government protection should be thrown around every wild grove and forest on the mountains, as it is around every private orchard, and the trees in public parks. To say nothing of their value as fountains of timber, they are worth infinitely more than all the gardens and parks of towns.

  John Muir

  Garden, Government, Tree

  John Muir, Peter Browning (1988). “John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations”, p.52, Great West Books

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• Anaximander says that men were first produced in fishes, and when they were grown up and able to help themselves were thrown up, and so lived upon the land.

  Plutarch

  Men, Land, Able

  Plutarch (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)”, p.3106, Delphi Classics

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• I stopped acting when I was about nineteen, twenty, when I got thrown out of college. I did act for about ten years. I don't know. I suspect I'm still a reasonably good actor, but I don't really know that I want to get on the stage again ... and having to say all those boring words by me over and over again ... I don't know if I want to do that. Also, I like a certain amount of freedom of movement, and if you're acting, you're stuck in one place for a long time. Having said that, I will probably be onstage next fall.

  Edward Albee

  Fall, College, Years

  Edward Albee (2009). “Stretching My Mind: The Collected Essays of Edward Albee”, p.48, Hachette UK

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• Just as ripples radiate from the place where a stone is thrown into a pool of water, our sometime-unconscious thoughts, feelings, emotions, and beliefs create the “disturbances” in the field that become the blueprints for our lives.

  Gregg Braden

  Unconscious Thoughts, Water, Feelings

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• I'm not called Jude Law, I have three names; I'm called 'Hunk Jude Law' or 'Heartthrob Jude Law'. In England anyway, that's my full name. That's the cheap language that's thrown around, that sums you up in one little bracket. It doesn't look at your life. But if one looks beyond, there is actually a little bit more.

  Jude Law

  Law, Names, Three

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Our inward power, when it obeys nature, reacts to events by accommodating itself to what it faces - to what is possible. It needs no specific material. It pursues its own aims as circumstances allow; it turns obstacles into fuel. As a fire overwhelms what would have quenched a lamp. What's thrown on top of the conflagration is absorbed, consumed by it - and makes it burn still higher.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Fire, Events, Needs

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.37, Modern Library

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• I like street performance because it's garbage time. The subway is garbage time: no one can say I'm wasting their time because they've already thrown that time into the subway. If they don't want to see me they can go to the other end of the platform. But on the street I do feel this disgust towards the audience: why would you waste your time looking at me? Why are you being so respectful of me? You should attack me.

  Kalan Sherrard

  Want, Garbage, Waste

  "Hyper subtle sexual ego". Interview with Peter Nowogrodzki, logger.believermag.com. June 4, 2014.

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• When you start talking about the known knowns and the unknown unknowns, you're thrown into a crazy meta-level discussion. Do I know what I know, do I know what I don't know, do I know what I don't know I don't know. It becomes a strange, Lewis Carroll - like nursery rhyme.

  Errol Morris

  Crazy, Talking, Levels

  "Errol Morris, On Donald Rumsfeld's Inability to Separate Fact from Fantasy". Interview with Calum Marsh, www.esquire.com. April 3, 2014.

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• Whatever market for manufactured goods emerged in colonial and dependent countries did not become the "eternal market" of these countries. Thrown wide open by colonization and by unequal treaties, it became an appendage of the "internal market" of Western capitalism.

  Paul A. Baran

  Country, Colonization, Treaties

  "The Political Economy Of Growth" by Paul A. Baran, Ch. 6, (p. 174), 1957.

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• It's nice to have one worry marched to the wings and forcefully thrown into the alleyway.

  Rob Payne

  Nice, Wings, Worry

  "Working Class Zero". Book by Rob Payne, Chapter 32, 2003.

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• There's not a European country the Jews haven't been thrown out of. When it happens that many times, it's not just persecution. THERE'S NO SMOKE WITHOUT FIRE.

  Mark Collett

  Country, Fire, Persecution

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