Quotes with throwing

  • Perhaps violence, like pornography, is some kind of an evolutionary standby system, a last-resort device for throwing a wild joker into the game?
  • It was as helpful as throwing a drowning man both ends of the rope.
  • We're a long way away from someone like Willie Pep winning a round without throwing a punch.
  • The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the reverberation.
  • Those nations have a very great responsibility at this juncture of the world's affairs, for by throwing their joint weight into the scales of history on the right side, they may tip the balance decisively in favour of peace.
  • You find that all men are successes or failures. Success is the stamp of truth. I will say all men who fail to place their feet on the dome of facts do so by not sieving all truth and throwing the faulty to one side.
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  • Henry David Thoreau Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Audre Lorde Attend me, hold me in your muscular flowering arms, protect me from throwing any part of myself away.
    A Burst of Light: and Other Essays (2017) 108
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Cassandra Clare Creating characters is like throwing together ingredients for a recipe. I take characteristics I like and dislike in real people I know, or know of, and use them to embellish and define characters.
    Cassandra Clare
    American author of young adult fiction (1973 - )
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley Fact I know; and Law I know; but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own mind's throwing?
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • Bob Packwood Historically, the Republicans have been geniuses at throwing away advantages.
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  • Buddha Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Bryan Batt I do find, coming form the stage and all that, I've always been conscious of my posture and my body, but also the style aspect, I do find myself throwing on a blazer and a nice pair of loafers more often. Daddy always likes a new pair of Guccis.
    Bryan Batt
    American actor (1963 - )
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  • Al Oerter I don't think the discus will ever attract any interest until they let us start throwing them at each other.
    Al Oerter
    American athlete (1936 - 2007)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Doug Horton If wishes were fishes we'd all be throwing nets. If wishes were horses we'd all ride.
    Doug Horton
    American Protestant clergyman
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  • Boris Yeltsin International terrorism is throwing down a challenge, and not just to Russia.
    Boris Yeltsin
    Russian politician (1931 - 2007)
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  • Arthur Baer It was as helpful as throwing a drowning man both ends of the rope.
    Arthur Baer
    American journalist and humorist (1886 - 1969)
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  • Bill Flores It's better to negotiate behind closed doors than it is to be out throwing rocks at one another in the public square.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Hermann Goering Our movement took a grip on cowardly Marxism and from it extracted the meaning of socialism. It also took from the cowardly middle-class parties their nationalism. Throwing both into the cauldron of our way of life there emerged, as clear as a crystal, the synthesis - German National Socialism.
    Hermann Goering
    German Nazi politician and military leader
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  • J. G. Ballard Perhaps violence, like pornography, is some kind of an evolutionary standby system, a last-resort device for throwing a wild joker into the game?
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Stephen Hawking So Einstein was wrong when he said, "God does not play dice." Consideration of black holes suggests, not only that God does play dice, but that he sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can't be seen.
    The Nature of Space and Time (1996)
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Bob Uecker The biggest thrill a ballplayer can have is when your son takes after you. That happened when my Bobby was in his championship Little League game. He really showed me something. Struck out three times. Made an error that lost the game. Parents were throwing things at our car and swearing at us as we drove off. Gosh, I was proud.
    Bob Uecker
    American Major League Baseball (MLB) player (1934 - )
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  • Bob Barr The definition of throwing your vote away is to go into that voting booth and vote for one of two parties that will not change the direction this country's going in.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Carlo Ratti The plastic bottle we're throwing away every day still stays there. And if we show that to people, then we can also promote some behavioral change.
    Carlo Ratti
    Italian architect, engineer and activist
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