Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
| Inspirational Quotes Zone
Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul | |
|
Quotes Zone Home | Suggest a Quote | Email This Page | |
|
| Quote:I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.[Barbara Bush] Quote:Aim at Heaven and you will get Earth thrown in. Aim at Earth and you get neither.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.[Siddhartha Buddha] Quote:It is never okay to throw away veteran underwear. A real guy checks the garbage regularly in case somebody - and we are not naming names but this would be his wife - is quietly trying to discard his underwear, which she is frankly jealous of, because the guy seems to have a more intimate relationship with it than with her.[Dave Barry] Quote:I assume you are on the Internet. If you are not, then pardon my French, but vous ehzeh un big loser. Today EVERYBODY is on the Internet, including the primitive Mud People of the Amazon rain forest. In the old days, when the Mud People needed food, they had to manually throw spears at wild boars; whereas today they simply get on the Internet, go to www.spear-a-boar.com and click their mouse a few times (the Mud People use actual mice). Within three business days, a large box is delivered to them by a UPS driver, whom they eat.[Dave Barry] Quote:Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.[Dale Carnegie] Quote:Not only does God play dice, but he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.[Stephen Hawking] Quote:This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.[Dorothy Parker] Quote:They (Christians) would throw me in jail and write bad articles about me and then go to church on Sunday and say Jesus is a wonderful man and he's coming back to save us. But they don't understand that when he comes back, that these crazy greedy capitalistic men are gonna kill him again.[Mike Tyson] Quote:I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam: I looked into the soul of another boy.[Woody Allen] Quote:Calm, lasting beauty comes only in a dream, and this solace the world had thrown away when in its worship of the real it threw away the secrets of childhood and innocence.[H.P. Lovecraft] Quote:The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.[Doug Larson] Quote:The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.[Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:If your kid makes one of those little homemade guitars out of a cigar box and rubber bands, don't let him just play it once or twice and then throw it away. Make him practice on it, every day, for about three hours a day. Later, he'll thank you.[Jack Handey] Quote:The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.Workers of all countries...unite![Frederick Engels] Quote:Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them. [Jewish Proverb] Quote:Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them. [Fran Lebowitz] Definitions of: throwDefinition: Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe.Definition: To fling, cast, or hurl with a certain whirling motion of the arm, to throw a ball; -- distinguished from to toss, or to bowl. Definition: To fling or cast in any manner; to drive to a distance from the hand or from an engine; to propel; to send; as, to throw stones or dust with the hand; a cannon throws a ball; a fire engine throws a stream of water to extinguish flames. Definition: To drive by violence; as, a vessel or sailors may be thrown upon a rock. Definition: To cause to take a strategic position; as, he threw a detachment of his army across the river. Definition: To overturn; to prostrate in wrestling; as, a man throws his antagonist. Definition: To cast, as dice; to venture at dice. Definition: To put on hastily; to spread carelessly. Definition: To divest or strip one's self of; to put off. Definition: To form or shape roughly on a throwing engine, or potter's wheel, as earthen vessels. Definition: To give forcible utterance to; to cast; to vent. Definition: To bring forth; to produce, as young; to bear; -- said especially of rabbits. Definition: To twist two or more filaments of, as silk, so as to form one thread; to twist together, as singles, in a direction contrary to the twist of the singles themselves; -- sometimes applied to the whole class of operations by which silk is prepared for the weaver. Definition: The act of hurling or flinging; a driving or propelling from the hand or an engine; a cast. Definition: A stroke; a blow. Definition: The distance which a missile is, or may be, thrown; as, a stone's throw. Definition: A cast of dice; the manner in which dice fall when cast; as, a good throw. Definition: An effort; a violent sally. Definition: The extreme movement given to a sliding or vibrating reciprocating piece by a cam, crank, eccentric, or the like; travel; stroke; as, the throw of a slide valve. Also, frequently, the length of the radius of a crank, or the eccentricity of an eccentric; as, the throw of the crank of a steam engine is equal to half the stroke of the piston. Definition: A potter's wheel or table; a jigger. See 2d Jigger, 2 (a). Definition: A turner's lathe; a throwe. Definition: The amount of vertical displacement produced by a fault; -- according to the direction it is designated as an upthrow, or a downthrow. |
Interesting Links: Quotation Reference Love Quotes Comedy Quotations From Dr. Robbins |