Thrown Quotes - Page 38

I've thrown enough punches in my life to know when someone is hurting.

Ally Carter

Hurt, Enough, Knows

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Gansey leaned back, head thrown to the side, drunken and silly with happiness. "I love this car," he said, loud enough to be heard over the engine. "I should buy four more of them. I'll just open the door of one to fall in to the other. One can be a living room, one can be my kitchen, I'll sleep in one..." "And the fourth? Butler's pantry?" Blue shouted. "Don't be so selfish. Guest room.

Maggie Stiefvater

Selfish, Silly, Fall

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This is the true joy of life-the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown to the scrap-heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish clod of ailments and grievances.

George Bernard Shaw

Motivational, Happiness, Laughter

Man and Superman epistle dedicatory (1903)

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In any age courage is the simple virtue needed for a human being to traverse the rocky road from infancy to maturity of personality. But in an age of anxiety, an age of herd morality and personal isolation, courage is a sine qua non. In periods when the mores of the society were more consistent guides, the individual was more firmly cushioned in his crises of development; but in times of transition like ours, the individual is thrown on his own at an earlier age and for a longer period.

Rollo May

Courage, Maturity, Simple

"Man's Search for Himself" by Rollo May, (p.191), 1953.

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Only in time of fear is government thrown back to its primitive and sole function of self-defense and the many interests of which it is the guardian become subordinate to that.

Jane Addams

Fear, Government, Self

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In what a delightful communion with God does that man live who habitually seeketh love! With the same mantle thrown over him from the cross - with the same act of amnesty, by which we hope to be saved - injuries the most provoked, and transgressions the most aggravated, are covered in eternal forgetfulness.

Elias Lyman Magoon

Forgiveness, Men, Amnesty

"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 252), 1895.

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Nature imitates herself. A grain thrown into good ground brings forth fruit; a principle thrown into a good mind brings forth fruit. Everything is created and conducted by the same Master-the root, the branch, the fruits-the principles, the consequences.

Blaise Pascal

Nature, Roots, Mind

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The man who boasts that he habitually tells the truth is simply a man with no respect for it. It is not a thing to be thrown about loosely, like small change; it is something to be cherished and hoarded and disbursed only when absolutely necessary. The smallest atom of truth represents some man's bitter toil and agony; for every ponderable chunk of it there is a brave truth-seeker's grave upon some lonely ash-dump and a soul roasting in Hell.

H. L. Mencken

Lonely, Truth, Lying

1922 Prejudices, 3rd series, ch.14.

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Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt; and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its banner to the last; and fast as it is driven from one field unfurls it in another, never admitting that there is a shade less honor in the second field than in the first, or in the third than in the second.

Helen Hunt Jackson

Hurt, Pride, Vanity

Helen Hunt Jackson (2010). “Ramona”, p.150, Modern Library

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I've thrown away lots of my old diaries - you never know who might get their hands on them. But I have kept a few notes on the good old days.

Steffi Graf

Hands, Diaries, Might

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I wish more fantasy, especially the dominant fantasy that draws heavily on British and Christian lore, would wrestle with its own ethnospecific nature and what that means when the story is set somewhere where more than one belief system is in operation. If all you do is pay lip service to it, you can get the kind of thing where the writer has thrown one Hindu god into a Christianist fantasy (rendering said god by default a demon or otherwise inferior to the dominant religious system of the story, which is such an insult), and the hero is able to vanquish it by chanting a spell in church Latin.

Nalo Hopkinson

Christian, Religious, Latin

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The worst disgrace that can befall a producer is an unkind notice from a New York reviewer. When this happens, the producer becomes a pariah in Hollywood. He is shunned by his friends, thrown into bankruptcy, and like a Japanese electing hara-kiri, he commits suttee.

S. J. Perelman

New York, Hollywood, Pariahs

"Strictly from Hunger". "The Most of S. J. Perelman", p. 47, 1992.

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It's such a paradox for them to say, "Oh, my God, I've thrown away my life," and continue to do that for the last month of their life. I shake them, physically shake them, and say, "What about now? What about now?"

Patch Adams

Healing, Health, Lasts

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I was honored today with having a few stones, dirt, rotten eggs, and pieces of dead cat thrown at me

George Whitefield

Cat, Eggs, Pieces

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I think that I'm throwing but I'm thrown

Lisa Loeb

Thinking, Throwing

Song: Stay I Missed You

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To me if there's an achievement to lighting and photography in a film it's because nothing stands out, it all works as a piece. And you feel that these actors are in this situation and the audience is not thrown by a pretty picture or by bad lighting.

Roger Deakins

Photography, Achievement, Actors

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When you put things together, things that other people have thrown out, you’re really bringing them to life – a spiritual life that surpasses the life for which they were originally created.

Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

Spiritual, People, Together

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Follow through: The part of the swing that takes place after the ball has been hit, but before the club has been thrown.

Henry Beard

Golf, Swings, Balls

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Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Things have been done the hard way. I think you learn better when things are done the hard way.

John Elway

Thinking, Fire, Done

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I got thrown out of school several weeks in my senior year being caught in the girls' dorm. This was 1954, friends. The girls' dorm was off limits. Even to girls, I think.

Robert B. Parker

Girl, Senior, School

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Myths grow all the time. If I was to listen to the number of times I've thrown teacups then we've gone through some crockery in this place. It's completely exaggerated, but I don't like people arguing back with me.

Alex Ferguson

Inspirational, Numbers, People

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If my lips teach the public that men are made mad by bad treatment, and if the police are taught that they may exasperate to madness men they persecute and ill treat, my life will not be entirely thrown away.

Ned Kelly

Wisdom, Men, Australia

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A prudent silence will frequently be taken for wisdom and a sentence or two cautiously thrown in will sometimes gain the palm of knowledge, while a man well informed but indiscreet and unreserved will not uncommonly talk himself out of all consideration and weight. (Alexander Hamilton's 'thesis on discretion' written to his son James shortly before his fatal duel with Burr.)

Ron Chernow

Taken, Son, Men

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World, they have taken the small children like butterflies and thrown them, beating their wings, into the fire--

Nelly Sachs

Children, Taken, Butterfly

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Everything we personally own that’s made, sold, shipped, stored, cleaned, and ultimately thrown away does some environmental harm every step of the way, harm that we’re either directly responsible for or is done on our behalf.

Yvon Chouinard

Environmental, Doe, Done

Yvon Chouinard (2006). “Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman”, p.90, Penguin

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