I have seen one shrike occupy himself for hours in sticking up on thorns, a number of small fishes that the fishermen had thrown on the shore. The fishes dried up and decayed.
Impossibility is a log thrown on the fires of love.
You're thrown to the side and then you think, oh, there's more to life than what we really can just see in front of us. There's something else going on.
Do I have my days when I've thrown a little pity party for myself? Absolutely.
What winning is to me is not giving up, is no matter what's thrown at me, I can take it. And I can keep going.
"I thought this was a cookout. You know, dogs and burgers, Tater Tots, ambrosia salad" Dexter picked up a box of Twinkies, tossing them into the cart. "And Twinkies. " "It is. . . Except that it's a cookout thrown by my mother. " "And?" "And my mother doesn't cook. " He looked at me waiting. "At all. My mother doesn't cook at all. " "She must cook sometimes. " "Nope. " "Everyone can make scrambled eggs, Remy. It's programmed into you at birth, the default setting. Like being able to swim and knowing not to mix pickles with oatmeal. You just KNOW. "
I do not think myself to be a worm, and a grub, grass of the field fit only to be burned, a clod, a morsel of putrid atoms that should be thrown to the dungheap, ready for the nethermost pit. Nor if I did should I therefore expect to sit with Angels and Archangels.
I can be thrown by the wayside, but I'm looking at the stars.
The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history.
I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing the other patients.
Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
You work [as an actor] for a bit, and then the job ends 'cause you get thrown off a bridge. And then, you suddenly don't have a career and you have to wait for the next bit to come along. It's the most strange profession in the world.
If I had had me for a student I would have thrown me out of class immediately.
What you want is practice, practice, practice. It doesn’t matter what we write (at least this is my view) at our age, so long as we write continually as well as we can. I feel that every time I write a page either of prose or of verse, with real effort, even if it’s thrown into the fire the next minute, I am so much further on.
What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does is thrown back at all Jews.
Let us make that one point - that no child will be unwanted, unloved, uncared for, or killed and thrown away.
Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history.
I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.
Machines are the opium of the masses. If all the machines in England were thrown into the North Sea tomorrow, we should be back in the Garden of Eden. And the weather would probably improve.
A good saying often runs the risk of being thrown away when quoted as the speaker's own. [Fr. , C'est souvent hasarder un bon mot et vouloir le perdre que de le donner pour sien. ]