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
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Patience permits us to cling to our faith in the Lord when we are tossed about by suffering as if by surf. When the undertow grasps us we will realize that we are somehow being carried forward even as we tumble. We are actually being -helped even as we cry for help.
Neal A. Maxwell
Or you could just have a big object tossed in close to the star. It goes into orbit and it will get torn apart by the gravity of the star once it gets close enough.
Ben Zuckerman
You never want to see a situation where kids get tossed out. A good scorer and a top defenseman for us were out. Central had good players out as well.
Jim Scanlan
No woman wants a dress that another has tossed off, but in men they aren't so choosy.
Francoise Sagan
Just having your name tossed around, it's amazing.
Lastings Milledge
That the Levi guidelines had been tossed into the wastebasket.
James Sensenbrenner
Concepts of individual responsibility and free choice are tossed overboard [in these suits], all in the name of 'protecting the kids'. The end result will be a society that is worse, not better, for both us and our children.
Sam Kazman
We tossed a few bombs at each other now and then, but that is a side issue for us. We both share a common vision that biometrics are a great way to initiate transactions.
Tim Robinson
1996, they won the Super Bowl in '97. I figured in such a year like that too much was going on. It got tossed away never to be returned.
Daniel Obremski
Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church, is often labeled today as a fundamentalism. ... Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and 'swept along by every wind of teaching,' looks like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards.
Pope Benedict Xvi
For a good book has this quality, that it is not merely a petrifaction of its author, but that once it has been tossed behind, like Deucalion's little stone, it acquires a separate and vivid life of its own.
Spencer Tracy
In the first half I thought we did a halfway decent job of taking away the passing lanes for Reid and she tossed some shots up. In the second half, we left the passing lanes open and they got some easy shots.
Jeff Rivero
This is an idea that has been suggested. It's been mentioned as one of several ideas that have been tossed about. It's no more of an idea than other ideas.
Wendy Johnson
[Without electricity, there was no air conditioning. Johnston withstood hot, sticky days, with temperatures rising into the 90s.] The heat index made it above 100 degrees. Boredom is the killer here, ... By 11 a.m. every day, it's too hot, and by 8 p.m., you have to go to sleep because, without electricity, it's dark and there's nothing to do. I tossed and turned until I fell asleep around 3 a.m.,
Jim Johnston
Genius is a word too often tossed around in musical circles.
Stanley Jordan
Canada has never been a melting pot; more like a tossed salad.
Arnold Edinborough
They are saying they don't want anyone to even touch the water. Now I know how a flounder feels. I was getting tossed all over the place.
Kathy Carroll
I didn't think I was going to get tossed.
Maurice Taylor
We were on deck and all tossed our hats up in the air with joy. Some went overboard. Ship's horns blared in the harbor at Guam where we were. Then the officer of the day came on the ship's intercom and ordered no more throwing of hats, ... There was no more celebrating.
Russell Collins
It was the dream vacation up to that point. Right before sunset he (Larry) was tossed over a wave and came down where it's a little more shallow that you'd expect.
Stuart Faris
They understand that everything they put into this may be tossed.
Robert Mullins
That was a solid win for us. Riverside is always a tough team. Donny was on his game that day. He was throwing hard and getting his breaking ball over the plate. He tossed a lot of first-pitch strikes.
Rich Carroll
True love is night jasmine, a diamond in darkenss, the heartbeat no cardiologist has ever heard. It is the most common of miracles, fashioned of fleecy clouds, a handful of stars tossed into the night sky.
Jim Bishop
We have never been a melting pot. The fact is we are more like a tossed salad. We are green, some of us are oily and there's a little vinegar injected when you get up to Ottawa.
Arnold Edinborough
The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window.
Stephen King
This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
Dorothy Parker
When he got fired, of course he was shocked. I don't think he was ever given a reason for it. They packed him up and tossed him out. If they had just paid him, he probably would have just gone his way.
Jack Ferguson
There are vehicles tossed hither and yon just like throwing pick-up sticks.
George Johnson
I don't know why she is not tossed up there in that group more. There were a lot of questions how she would adjust coming out of Liberty (University), and she has been great. I'm not saying she should be rookie of the year, but she should be a part of the discussion.
Dan Hughes
They were probably tossed. I doubt if they were purposely strategically placed.
Jim Amormino
It's possible they were formed by some object getting tossed in too close to Saturn and it got torn apart by gravity.
Ben Zuckerman
I just tossed it. I didn't even look at where I tossed it. I was just so ... mad.
Kevin Garnett
Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church, is often labeled today as a fundamentalism... Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and 'swept along by every wind of teaching,' looks like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards.
Joseph Ratzinger
At one of the mosques, two rocks, about the size of two baseballs, were tossed through a window which was shattered.
Guy Lajeunesse
Tossed around like a kid would throw dominoes.
Wayne Wright
It was an awesome game. We tied the game at 52-52 with eight seconds to go, but they (the Indians) drove the length of the floor and missed a shot. They grabbed the rebound and tossed it back in at the buzzer.
Aaron Palmer
Let me say this flatly: Leaks are good. They are the way we hold paranoid and secretive governments accountable. Historically, leaks have virtually never harmed national security in even a minor way, despite plenty of shrill commentary to the contrary. Reporters should be allowed to print them without fear of being tossed in jail.
Kevin Drum
One kid at the table tossed it back. It was absolutely nowhere near Terrence Johnson.
Forrest Pearson
I was against the same type of guy and I was up 16-2. I didn't wrestle smart and he tossed me with 15 seconds left. I learned a lot from that mistake.
Sterling Coons
High and mighty king, your grace, and these your nobles here present, may be pleased benignly to bow your ears, to hear the tragedy of a young man, that by right ought to hold in his hand the ball of a kingdom; but by fortune is made himself a ball, tossed from misery to misery, and from place to place.
Perkin Warbeck
I've witnessed an announcer getting tossed before. I just never thought it would happen to me.
James O'brien
This is one of the worst things the Senate has ever done. On the back of a cocktail napkin they have tossed aside protections of individual liberty that have been in existence for centuries.
Gita Gutierrez
Diversity is a phrase that's tossed around, but we actually approach this as a business subject and measure how effective diversity management is in Corporate America.
Luke Visconti
In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: ''Is there someone new?''.
Edna O'brien
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