Throw Quotes - page 2

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights. (Desmond Tutu)
In the school I went to, they asked a kid to prove the law of gravity and he threw the teacher out of the window. View quote
Rodney Dangerfield
A lot of my work has to do with not allowing my characters to have an ego in a way that the stomach doesn't have an ego when it's wanting to throw up. It just does it. View quote
Matthew Barney
Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go. View quote
Erma Bombeck
Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more. View quote
Mark Twain
How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
Although the troops have struck us, we throw it all behind and are glad to meet you in peace and friendship. View quote
Black Kettle
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. View quote
David Brinkley
You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit. View quote
Arthur Miller
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy. View quote
Bob Hope
Like their predecessors, the Presidents of today just throw up their hands. View quote
Stephen Ambrose
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. View quote
David Trimble
Ultimately when I throw myself behind a movie, I have to really believe in that directors vision. View quote
Christine Vachon
So it's a mistake for someone to think that they bailed New York out. They did assist us, for which we are grateful, but it's a mistake to say we bailed New York out by giving them a grant of money to help those poor people who throw it away on welfare. View quote
David Dinkins
It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few. View quote
Pythagoras
Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight. View quote
Rollo May
Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty. View quote
James Madison
At times discretion should be thrown aside, and with the foolish we should play the fool. View quote
Menander
God did not give me my life to throw it away. (Charlotte Brontë)
One of the dangers of the American artist is that he finds himself almost exclusively thrown in with persons more or less in the arts. He lives among them, eats among them, quarrels with them, marries them. View quote
Thornton Wilder
One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away. View quote
Stephen Hawking
To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage. View quote
Samuel Johnson
A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated because of his false way of life. He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment. No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in. View quote
Henry Miller