29 Tossed Quotes for You to Enjoy

The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions are governed not from within, but from without. He is like a float tossed about by the waves of a turbulent sea. Nikola Tesla

Human Being Control Waves Though Willful Tossed About Entirely He Like Within Without Governed His Human Being Influences Predetermined Turbulent Sea Actions Appear Float External

Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim. James A. Garfield

Best Man Poverty Young Nine Out Tossed Ten Uncomfortable Overboard Sink Times Happen Young Man Swim Compelled Thing

The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas. Alfred Noyes

Moon Ghostly Tossed Cloudy Seas

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking. Khalil Gibran

Me People Water Drinking Spring Easier Would Would-Be Tossed Well Dry Pass Were Than Stones Which Avoid Flowing Thirsty

Writing on a computer makes saving what's been written too easy. Pretentious lead sentences are kept, not tossed. Instead of sitting surrounded by crumpled paper, the computerized writer has his mistakes neatly stored in digital memory. P. J. O'Rourke

Memory Writing Digital Pretentious Mistakes Too Saving Paper Easy Tossed Computer Writer Computerized Lead Written Instead Makes Been His Surrounded Sitting Stored Sentences Neatly Kept

The tricky thing about songwriting is that, more often than not, what you consider to be your best work generates a collective shrug, and something you've simply tossed off bowls people over. Dan Hill

A lot of our music came out of a lot of weird psychology and weird emotions. When you play the whole body of work, you get tossed all over the place. It's not easy listening. It's not even comfortable to listen to. Dave Davies

When tempest tossed, embrace chaos. Dean Koontz

Chaos Embrace Tossed Tempest

Early education is the type of issue politicians nod their heads at, and then when it comes time to make a tough decision, a financial trade-off, inevitably it's about the first item tossed from the table. J. B. Pritzker

This is a unique legal loophole in the U.S.: If a non-native comes on a reservation and commits any crime, the non-native should be prosecuted by a federal court. Tribal law can arrest and hold someone for a year, but tribal law cannot prosecute non-natives. So since the federal courts are so overloaded, some of the cases get tossed out. Jason Momoa

Legal Law Crime Tribal Year Reservation Out Tossed Some Someone Cases Federal Prosecuted Since Loophole Court Overloaded Arrest Courts Get Any Hold Cannot Should Unique

America has tossed its cap over the wall of space. John F. Kennedy

Space Tossed Over Wall America Cap

I was tossed all over the place growing up, which I guess prepared me for the music business, but the one thing that has always been there, that has never ever left me, has been country music. Kellie Pickler

Music Me Business Country Music Business Guess Has-Been One Thing Tossed Never Over Country Music Always Been Left Up The One Thing Place Which Prepared Growing Growing Up Ever Thing

Looking back, I wince at the careless way I tossed out my opinions. Luke Ford

Looking Looking Back Careless Back Way Out Tossed Wince Opinions

Health care has become a political football that is being tossed back and forth by both sides in Washington. And it's divided our country. Matthew Heineman

Health Political Care Country Become Back Our Sides Tossed Both Both Sides Divided Football Health Care Being Forth Washington

From the moment when he catches sight of the light of the world, a man seeks to find out himself and get hold of himself out of its confusion, in which he, with everything else, is tossed about in motley mixture. Max Stirner

I remember tearing up the first time I read Nabokov's description, in 'Speak, Memory,' of his father being tossed on a blanket by cheering muzhiks, with its astonishingly subtle foreshadowing of grief and mourning. Michael Chabon

Time Grief Memory Speak Remember Father First Tossed Blanket Cheering Read First Time His Up Mourning Being Subtle Description Tearing

I believe in infrastructure, I believe in investing in your hard assets. Where I think government starts to fail is when it starts getting itself weighed down with the social programs. And I think the American public just feels like a lot of that money is tossed aside and wasted. Mick Cornett

Government Money Down Believe Think Starts Programs Tossed Weighed Investing Fail Feels Like Lot Itself American Getting Just Where Public Infrastructure Social Aside American Public Your Hard Assets Wasted

The 1950s felt so safe and smug, the '60s so raw and raucous, the revolutions stacked one on top of another, in race relations, gender roles, generational conflict, the clash of church and state - so many values and vanities tossed on the bonfire, and no one had a concordance to explain why it was all happening at once. Nancy Gibbs

Conflict Church Values Gender State Relations Once Top Church And State Clash Tossed Had No-One Raw Generational Safe Another Felt Smug Roles Revolutions Stacked Happening Explain Race Race Relations Many Why Bonfire

If you create a fun environment, people will take liberties and grow and expand. And then you'll get your final screenplay in my favorite style, which is 'tossed away' - as if the actor just thought of it. Nia Vardalos

When the machine had been fastened with a wire to the track, so that it could not start until released by the operator, and the motor had been run to make sure that it was in condition, we tossed a coin to decide who should have the first trial. Wilbur won. Orville Wright

First Trial Machine Released Run Tossed Could Wire Had Until Make Track Sure Operator Been Condition Motor Won Decide Should Who Fastened Start Coin

I wasn't necessarily frustrated in Fall Out Boy, but there were things that didn't get satisfied, desires left wanting. We didn't all meet on the same kind of music. When bands break up, there are all these buzz words that get tossed around to maintain a front for the audience, but in this case there literally were creative differences. Patrick Stump

Music Creative Words Fall Differences Satisfied Meet Out Kind Tossed All-Out Case Maintain Around Audience Boy Were Left Up Bands Get Same Front Literally Wanting Break Break Up Frustrated Things Necessarily Buzz Desires

Unfunny people should be locked up, the key tossed into a smelter. Patrick deWitt

People Key Locked Locked Up Tossed Up Should

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