F.D.R. achieved greatness not by means of imposing his temperament and intellect on the world but by reacting to what the world threw at him.
She have lit the fire and I threw myself upon it. O' heart be her lover O' fire emblaze.
Threw you the obvious and you flew with it on your back, A name in your recollection, down among a million same." - A Perfect Circle.
I spent so long studying really hard to become a fine actor, but threw it all away because I got the adulation and the fame so easily.
In high school, I threw a party to get a guy's attention. I wanted him to think I was cool, so I let him and his friends DJ and basically take over the house.
I was terrible at interviews, lost in my own loss of identity and struggling at home as a wife and mother. It was a household that preferred me working, which threw me off completely.
A few years ago I was at a party and this guy threw me over his shoulder, ran across the street, put me in his car, and stuck his tongue in my mouth.
I'm still that little girl who lisped and sat in the back of the car and threw vegetables at the back of her head when we drove home from the market. That never goes.
My mother accidentally gave me food poisoning. She fed me baby carrots for a snack before Christmas dinner - but they had expired in June! I threw up for the next 24 hours.
These natives are a very good people; for when they saw that I would not remain, they supposed that I was afraid of their bows; and, taking their arrows, the broke them in pieces and threw them into the fire.
People that were in my life for a long time turned sinister and tried to control me, and all kinds of weird stuff happened. But there was no conscience involved; that threw me more than anything.
Once the Supreme Court in 1973 decided that infanticide could be legal, it not only ended America's 'inalienable right to life,' it threw the Golden Rule right off the shores of this continent.
I wrote five issues of that and got the sack. Actually, they paid me for eight, but they changed their minds about the direction and threw three issues out the window.
My first job was a film called 'Storm Damage' for the BBC. I was 16 and working with really respected British actors. I didn't have an agent at the time, and it kind of threw me into real acting.
Clément Mathieu: [some of the boys are hitting Morhange] Hey, why are you hitting him? Pépinot enfant: Because Morhange threw an ink bomb at you.
Indiana Jones: [gesturing to a window where he just threw out a Nazi Officer] No ticket.
[after their adventure] Dash: Dad, that was so cool when you threw that car! Mr. Incredible: Not as cool as you running on water!
Dirk Calloway: [to Max] I just wanted to say, I'm sorry I threw rocks at you that day.
My Mom said she learned how to swim when someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. I said, 'Mom, they weren't trying to teach you how to swim.'
If you threw your shoe to someone’s head, you spread your own stench.” ~ Angelica Hopes, If I Could Tell You
I was under contract to Paramount. They wanted to make me into somebody which I was not. So I got so scared and rebelled, so they threw me out of the studio.
