Top 1200 Throwing Away Quotes & Sayings

The game of basketball is not played with throwing punches, throwing elbows.

I can assure you that there is no question of us throwing away the tradition of the Grammar Schools.

About 30% of fresh food is thrown away in supermarkets every day, although they will deny it. British households are throwing an estimated 30% of their food away, too.

I'm just like my country, I'm young, scrappy and hungry, and I'm not throwing away my shot.

You can always avert throwing yourself in front of an oncoming train. There is something that just pulls you away - and it has pulled me away, because I'm not dead yet - just at the brink of impact. Sometimes I have been really grazed by that train.

Throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet.

Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else.

Whenever you see riot footage on TV - you know, someone throwing a brick in Pakistan or somebody throwing a fiery piece of pooh through a Starbucks window up in Seattle - you ever see anybody throwing anything underhand? I think it just takes all the aggression out of the act.

Nothing beats reason for keeping tigers away. But be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater.

Most men are secretly still mad at their mothers for throwing away their comic books. They would be valuable now.

A man often runs the risk of throwing away a witticism if he admits that it is his own.

One is forever throwing away substance for shadows.

I told my father I had to try political science for a year. He thought I was throwing my life away.

President Bush's campaign is now attacking John Kerry for throwing away some of his medals to protest the Vietnam War. Bush did not have any medals to throw away, but in his defense he did have all his services records thrown out.

I don't have any personal challenges about throwing away the past. If you're not changing, you're giving others a chance to catch up.

There was nothing wrong with the performance, apart from throwing away the game.

Consumerism has accustomed us to waste. But throwing food away is like stealing it from the poor and hungry.

Throwing young men out of work, throwing people into poverty and ending business life don't promote stability in the Palestinian territories,.

Regardless of how long it took or what I had to go through to get there, I had visualizations of throwing no-hitters or throwing shutouts.

To do nothing but grumble and not to act - that is throwing away one's life.

You know, it's a different deal - throwing a football as opposed to throwing a baseball.

People don't realize that we're spending money throwing food away rather than feeding people.

I am not throwing away my shot.

This is something that, as artists, we constantly deal with-throwing away the past, slaying the father, and creating the new. This desire to throw away the old rules.

I used to tell Jackie (Robinson) sometimes when they were throwing at him, 'Jackie, they aren't throwing at you because you are black. They are throwing at you because they don't like you.

What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

Throwing blondes at Locke Lamora was not unlike throwing lettuce at sharks.

Historically, the Republicans have been geniuses at throwing away advantages.

It is throwing our life away, to think of the wrong things.

Take it from me - every vote counts. In our Democracy, every vote has power. And never forget - that power is yours. Don't let anyone take it away or talk you into throwing it away. And let's make sure that this time every vote is counted.

A woman's happiness is in throwing everything away to live for love.

One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code.

I've always kept fit but I've been doing gym and yoga and will be throwing my stilettoes away for a while!

Short of throwing away all television sets, I really don't know what we can do about writing.

A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.

Throwing stones is the birthright and duty of anyone subject to foreign rule. Throwing stones is an action as well as a metaphor of resistance.

When I graduated from high school, the teacher said I was throwing my life away following music.

Throwing a knuckleball for a strike is like throwing a butterfly with hiccups across the street into your neighbor's mailbox.

There appears to be a deeply embedded uneasiness in our culture about throwing away junk that can be reused. Perhaps, in part, it is guilt about consumption. Perhaps it also feels unnatural. Mother Nature doesn't throw stuff away. Dead trees, birds, beetles and elephants are pretty quickly recycled by the system.

The ocean is tired. It's throwing back at us what we're throwing in there.

The plastic bottle we're throwing away every day still stays there. And if we show that to people, then we can also promote some behavioral change.

Anytime you do something in this arena, whether it's public records or ethics, it's not like throwing a stone in a quiet pond. It's like throwing a boulder.

Examples of human stupidity. Blasphemy in Pakistan can now include spelling errors by children or throwing away a card bearing the name "Muhammad".

It’s hard to throw away history. It was like you were throwing away a part of yourself.

We practice throughout the week throwing jump balls, throwing fades, throwing all these little things. But when the game comes, you never know what's going to come up.

There are no rules in writing. There are useful principles. Throw them away when they're not useful. But always know what you're throwing away.

With all their attack ads, the President is just throwing away money...and he's pretty experienced at that.

We're a long way away from someone like Willie Pep winning a round without throwing a punch.

the metabolism of a consumer society requires it continually to eat and excrete, every day throwing itself away in plastic bags.

Write a lot. And I mean a ridiculous amount. You have to write so much that you don't mind throwing away and changing things that you've written - which is the second thing you have to do. A lot of young writers are very precious about their words. Don't be - you've got to be ready to burn stuff. You're not as good as you think you are, at least not yet. The more you write, the faster you'll write, and the less you'll mind throwing stuff out.

I'm not a sympathetic guy when I see people throwing their lives away and using their life's obstacles as excuses to fail. I just don't buy into that.

The day I think about throwing the ball away at the beginning of a play, I should stop playing.

Throwing away food is like stealing from the table of those who are poor and hungry.

Americans are really good at throwing their hands up and walking away from things.

I still do believe that form and content are very much related. I think throwing away some of the rule books on that is a good thing.

When an opportunity comes, it holds possibilities. And when you move away from it or don't sense it or grasp it, you're really throwing away your future; you're throwing away your tomorrow.

Understanding means throwing away your knowledge.

There seems to be a common strain of miserliness in the American people when it comes to throwing away toothpaste tubes which havea little left in the bottom.

We should all remember... that throwing food away is like stealing from the tables of the poor, the hungry! I encourage everyone to reflect on the problem of thrown away and wasted food to identify ways and means that, by seriously addressing this issue, are a vehicle of solidarity and sharing with the needy.

I find beauty almost everywhere. Now more and more I find almost everything beautiful. That is why I have great difficulty in throwing away things because I think they are quite beautiful. Even the garbage, but I have to throw that away!