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Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And, while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
william cowper— 1785 The Task, bk.4,'The Winter Evening', l.34-9.
Who digs hills because they do aspire, Throws down one mountain to cast up a higher.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Pericles, Prince of Tyre (c. 1607-08), Act I, scene 4, line 6.
Technology, while adding daily to our physical ease, Throws dailyanother loop of fine wire around our souls. It contributes hugely to our mobility, which we must not confuse with freedom. The extensions of our senses, which we find so fascinating, are not adding to the discrimination of our minds, since we need increasingly to take the reading of a needle on a dial to discover whether we think something isgood or bad, or right or wrong.
— 1955 'My Faith in Democratic Capitalism', in Fortune, Oct.
Nature's only interest is in having you procreate, then it Throws you away.
Fay originally Franklin Birkinshaw Weldon— 1992 In The Guardian,15 Jan.
"When I was a freshman, I fooled around with shooting free Throws this way: For some reason, I thought you had to stay within the top half of that free-throw circle, so I would step back to just inside the top of the circle, take off from behind the line and dunk. They outlawed that, but I wouldn't have done it in a game, anyway. I was a good free throw shooter in college." Actually he was a 62% free throw shooter, which is poor except in comparison to his 51% as a pro.
wilt chamberlain— Ostler, Scott (1989-02-12). "The Leaping Legends of Basketball". The Los Angeles Times.
It is as though a star Throws the whole secret history of its being into its spectrum, and we have only to learn how to read it aright in order to solve the most abstruse problems of the physical Universe.
herbert dingle— Introduction, page xxv
Hello Fry, it's a ... *[stops mid-sentence, Throws a D20 and a D6]* pleasure to meet you.
gary gygax— Voicing himself in "Anthology of Interest I" on Futurama (21 May 2000)
Music is for me like a beautiful mosaic which God has put together. He takes all the pieces in his hand, Throws them into the world, and we have to recreate the picture from the pieces.
jean sibelius— Quoted by Jalmari Finne, June 28, 1905. [1]
It is better to ride a pony than a horse which Throws you.
navjot singh sidhu— Referring to Dinesh Mongia, who was like a reliable pony than Sachin Tendulkar who at that time, was more like an unreliable horse, on a television broadcast (11 July 2002), during a one day match with Sri Lanka in England.
A wise player ought to accept his Throws and score them, not bewail his luck.
Sophocles— Fragment 862.
She Throws a kiss, and bids me runIn whispers sweet as roses’ breath;I know I can not win the race,And at the end, I know, is death.
maurice thompson— Atalanta’s Race.
How far that little candle Throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice (late 1590s), Act V, scene 1, line 90.
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, Throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
joseph addison— No. 115 (12 July 1711).
I said earlier that I do not believe an artist's life Throws much light upon his works. I do believe, however, that, more often than most people realize, his works may throw light upon his life. An artist with certain imaginative ideas in his head may then involve himself in relationships which are congenial to them.
wystan hugh auden— "The Greatest of the Monsters", p. 247
[My father] impressed upon me from the first, that the manner in which the world came into existence was a subject on which nothing was known: that the question, “Who made me?” cannot be answered, because we have no experience or authentic information from which to answer it; and that any answer only Throws the difficulty a step further back, since the question immediately presents itself, “Who made God?”
john stuart mill— Ch. 2: Moral Influences in Early Youth. My Father's Character and Opinions.
The part which is nearest to the earth... is without knots and is "clear." But the upper part, on account of the great heat in it Throws up branches into the air through the knots and this... is called "knotwood" because of its hardness and knottiness. The lowest part, after the tree is cut down and the sapwood of the same thrown away, is split up into four pieces and prepared for joiner's work, and so is called clearstock.
vitruvius— Chapter IX, Sec. 7
Proudhon goes on to suggest that the real laws by which society functions have nothing to do with authority; they are not imposed from above, but stem from the nature of society itself. He sees the free emergence of such laws as the goal of social endeavour. … Proudhon conceiving a natural law of balance operating within society, rejects authority as an enemy and not a friend of order, and Throws back at the authoritarians the accusations leveled at anarchists; in the process he adopts the title he hopes to have cleared of obloquy.
George Woodcock— Prologue (Anarchism : A History of Libertarian Ideas and Movements (1962))
When the captain Throws out his sheet-anchor, and the ship "rides at anchor," as it is called, there is a great strain on every link of that chain; and if one bad link breaks, off goes the anchor, and the ship is driven before the winds, and may be destroyed. Now, our character is very much like the chain; one bad piece vitiates and spoils it. So we must have a pure character.
— John Hall, p. 44. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
This is a free country. A free society Throws up these kinds of people, who exercise their freedom in unusual ways. And if this is how he wants to do it, I must accept his constitutional right to do so.
— Mayor of Capetown Helen Zille — cited in: Cape Argus staff (7 May 2008). "Artist uses a different stroke on Zille portrait". Cape Argus (South Africa: Independent Online): p. 3.
I see their scattered gravestones gleaming white Through the pale dusk of the impending night. O'er all alike the imperial sunset Throws Its golden hues mingled with the rose; We give to each a tender thought and pass Out of the graveyards with their tangled grass.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Morituri Salutamus, line 120.
We have for the first time a standard of Macedonian royal burial by which to judge other rich tombs. We have much new information on the military equipment of the era. We have a whole new chapter in the history of Greek tomb paintings, a fragmentary field but one which Throws unique and contemporary light on the whole lost achievement of Greek free painting.
— Michael Crawford, Fergus Millar, Emilio Gabba, "Sources for Ancient History", p. 181, Cambridge University Press
She wads up the t-shirt, uses it to wipe a trickle of santorum from her ass, and Throws it under the cot.
— Dunn, Jack R. (2005). Hard. p. 134.
Yet, all beneath the unrivall'd rose, The lowly daisy sweetly blows; Tho' large the forest's monarch Throws His army shade, Yet green the juicy hawthorn grows, Adown the glade.
Robert Burns— Robert Burns, The Vision (1786), Duan II, Stanza 21.
Mathematicians believed that prediction was just a function of keeping track of things. If you knew enough, you could predict anything… Chaos theory Throws it right out the window because in fact there are great categories of phenomena that are inherently unpredictable.
— Michael Crichton (1991), in Hobart A. Burch Basic Social Policy and Planning: Strategies and Practice Methods, Psychology Press, 1996, p.63
If people would only realize when they ask me why I don't do a picture with him - they ask me that all the time, and were quite keen on it while I was in Hollywood - if they'd only realize that he's gone 'way ahead of me. Why I couldn't begin to keep up with him. I couldn't even reach the steps he Throws away.
— Adele Astaire op. cit. (Dance partners on Astaire)
Note: Character is a vampire who says this to Buffy while fighting with her, when she appears to be threatening him with a cymbal stand. She then Throws it through a window, and while Luke is distracted temporarily by the blinding glare of a streetlamp that shines through the broken window, Buffy stakes him in the back, killing him.
— Who: Principal Robert Flutie (Ken Lerner)
— Source: Episode 1.06 "The Pack"
— Note: Character is eaten alive in his office by hyena-possessed students.
Perhaps, moreover, he whose genius appears deepest and truest excels his fellows in nothing save the knack of expression ; he Throws out occasionally a lucky hint at truths of which every human soul is profoundly though unutterably conscious.
Nathaniel Hawthorne— Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mosses from an Old Manse, The Procession of Life
