Toss Quotes - Page 6

• I haven't slept properly for 12 years because of this bloody game. I don't think you do in a competitive game. You toss and turn and you don't sleep.

  Colin Montgomerie

  Sleep, Golf, Thinking

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• Reproductive choice is not some trendy item to toss or keep around the house. If you cannot get an education or a job, if you cannot choose what will or will not happen with your own body, then what freedom do you have?

  June Jordan

  Jobs, Choices, House

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• Wall Street sometimes gets confused between risk and uncertainty, and you can profit handsomely from that confusion. The low-risk, high-uncertainty [situation] gives us our most sought after coin-toss odds. Heads, I win; tails, I don't lose much.

  Mohnish Pabrai

  Wall, Confused, Winning

  Mohnish Pabrai (2011). “The Dhandho Investor: The Low-Risk Value Method to High Returns”, p.108, John Wiley & Sons

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• When scandal has new-minted an old lie,
  Or tax'd invention for a fresh supply,
  'Tis call'd a satire, and the world appears
  Gathering around it with erected ears;
  A thousand names are toss'd into the crowd,
  Some whisper'd softly, and some twang'd aloud,
  Just as the sapience of an author's brain,
  Suggests it safe or dangerous to be plain.

  William Cowper

  Lying, Names, Brain

  William Cowper, Henry Stebbing (1869). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper, Esq: Including the Hymns and Translations from Madame Guion, Milton, Etc. ; with a Memoir of the Author”, p.124

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• Good movies make you care, make you believe in possibilities again. If somewhere in the Hollywood-entertainment world someone has managed to break through with something that speaks to you, then it isn’t all corruption. The movie doesn’t have to be great; it can be stupid and empty and you can still have the joy of a good performance, or the joy in just a good line. An actor’s scowl, a small subversive gesture, a dirty remark that someone tosses off with a mock-innocent face, and the world makes a little bit of sense.

  Pauline Kael

  Stupid, Believe, Dirty

  Pauline Kael (1994). “For keeps”, E P Dutton

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• If we really believe that animals have the same right to be free from pain
  and suffering at our hands, then, of course we’re going to be, as a
  movement, blowing things up and smashing windows … I think it’s a great way
  to bring about animal liberation … I think it would be great if all of the
  fast-food outlets, slaughterhouses, these laboratories, and the banks that
  fund them exploded tomorrow. I think it's perfectly appropriate for people
  to take bricks and toss them through the windows ... Hallelujah to the
  people who are willing to do it.

  Bruce Friedrich

  Pain, Believe, Thinking

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• Drink from the stars and toss your hat over the moon.

  Fay Thomas

  Stars, Women, Moon

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• People think we don't give a toss about the game, but when I walked out of Windsor Park that night I felt lower than a snake's belly. The reality is still there.

  Rio Ferdinand

  Night, Reality, Thinking

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• After the Democrats shoved the 2700 pages of ObamaCare down our throats - and we did find out how expensive, controlling, and coercive the legislation was - a majority of Americans wanted the Supreme Court to toss it aside as unconstitutional.

  Bob Beauprez

  Obamacare, Majority, Pages

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• I don't like people that litter. If you don't throw a wrapper in the trashcan and you just toss it out on the ground I wanna take you and toss you into outer space.

  Dane Cook

  Space, People, Ifs

  Source: mcclainjohnson.com

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• The serve, I think, is the most difficult, you know, in terms of coordination, because you got the two arms going, and you got to toss it up at the right time so.

  Roger Federer

  Thinking, Two, Arms

  "Talk Asia" with Anjali Rao, edition.cnn.com. December 6, 2007.

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• Lights come and go in the night sky. Men, troubled at last by the things they build, may toss in their sleep and dream bad dreams, or lie awake while the meteors whisper greenly overhead. But nowhere in all space or on a thousand worlds will there be men to share our loneliness.

  Loren Eiseley

  Dream, Loneliness, Lying

  Loren Eiseley (2011). “The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature”, p.162, Vintage

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• Everything in my life is in perspective. OK, perspective ebbs and flows. I've had bad days, but they weren't in the last years. A bad day is 2 October 1996: 'We've got bad news for you, you've got advanced testicular cancer and you've got a coin's toss chance of survival.' That's a bad day.

  Lance Armstrong

  Cancer, Bad Day, Years

  "Lance Armstrong interview: An abridged transcript". Interview with Dan Roan, www.bbc.com. January 26, 2015.

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• And what better way to reinvent the form than to toss virtually 99% of everything that's been done with it and start with a brand-new canvas, reinvent it from the ground up? Digital comics gave me the opportunity to do that, and producing things digitally gave me the opportunity to do that.

  Scott McCloud

  Opportunity, Done, Way

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• The right boys I always toss and the wrong ones I keep on top of me like paperweights.

  Daniel Handler

  Boys

  "Adverbs". Book by Daniel Handler, 2006.

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• My wife is very interested in fashion. I am absolutely not. I couldn't give a toss. Fashion is a perfectly valid thing to be interested in. I'm just not particularly interested in pop culture. I think I am more interested in things that have a settled permanence about them.

  Simon Winchester

  Fashion, Thinking, Giving

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• A marathon is a like a roller coaster... You might toss your cookies, jump for joy, pass out, or have to close your eyes and just breathe. Even when it is going smooth, all of a sudden there can be a drop or even better, an acceleration. Hang on, stick to your plan, and enjoy every step of the way. I can't wait to do another....or maybe ten! Get after it!

  Carrie Tollefson

  Running, Eye, Joy

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• Shakespeare possesses the power of subordinating nature for the purposes of expression, beyond all poets. His imperial muse tosses the creation like a bauble from hand to hand, and uses it to embody any caprice of thought that is uppermost in his mind. The remotest spaces of nature are visited, and the farthest sundered things are brought together, by subtle spiritual connection. We are made aware that magnitude of material things is relative, and all objects shrink and expand to serve the passion of the poet.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mother, Spiritual, Nature

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.238, Penguin

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• We are dreamers. We worship love, we hope against hope and toss practicality out the window.

  Pete Wentz

  Life, Dreamer, Worship

  Pete Wentz, James Montgomery (2013). “Gray”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• Truly, that reason upon which we plume ourselves, though it may answer for little things, yet for great decisions is hardly surer than a toss up.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Decision, Answers, May

  Charles Sanders Peirce (1974). “Collected Papers”, p.351, Harvard University Press

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• The school system is the homogenizing hopper into which we toss our integral tots for processing.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Freedom, School, Differences

  Marshall McLuhan, W. Terrence Gordon, Elena Lamberti, Dominique Scheffel-Dunand (2011). “The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man”, p.244, University of Toronto Press

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• Ignorance is a treasure of infinite price that most men squander, when they should cherish its least fragments; some ruin it by educating themselves, others, unable to so much as conceive of making use of it, let it waste away. Quite on the contrary, we should search for it assiduously in what we think we know best. Leaf through a dictionary or try to make one, and you will find that every word covers and masks a well so bottomless that the questions you toss into it arouse no more than an echo.

  Paul Valery

  Education, Ignorance, Men

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• If I could take your troubles
  I would toss them into the sea,
  But all these things I'm finding
  Are impossible for me.
  I cannot build a mountain
  Or catch a rainbow fair,
  But let me be what I know best,
  A friend that is always there.

  Khalil Gibran

  Sea, Rainbow, Poetry

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• It was never a policy of the Kent team that the pitch must be occupied all day after winning the toss.

  Frank Woolley

  Team, Winning, Winner

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• It is an old custom of these people to pick up a stone and toss it on the pile. Perhaps it is a symbolical lightening of the load they carry, perhaps a small offering to the gods of the trails.

  Louis L'Amour

  Journey, Hiking, Offering

  Louis L'Amour (2004). “The Lonesome Gods”, p.74, Bantam

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