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Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.
Joan of Arc
Love
,
God
,
Nothing
As a reward for their efforts, however, those early Christians were beaten, stoned to death, thrown to the lions, tortured and crucified. Every conceivable method was used to stop them from talking.
Josh McDowell
Death
,
Used
,
Stop
We now have contestants who will not let anything get in their way of victory. Some contestants have thrown each other under the bus this season.
Ryan Seacrest
Victory
,
Season
,
Bus
In the past, I've thrown myself into work so much there's been very little room for anything else.
Amanda Holden
Work
,
Past
,
Else
I find it difficult to believe that words have no meaning in themselves, hard as I try. Habits of a lifetime are not lightly thrown aside.
Stuart Chase
Hard
,
Words
,
Find
I like getting toilet paper thrown at me.
Joel Madden
Getting
,
Paper
,
Toilet
In the past I've thrown my wicket away on certain occasions.
Kevin Pietersen
Past
,
Away
,
Occasions
I don't know if it's naivete or just narcissism, but I start out with this notion that I can do anything. It's not until I get into it that I realize what I've thrown myself into, and then I will do anything not to humiliate myself. And that, I think, is the secret to my success.
Michelle Pfeiffer
Success
,
Start
,
Secret
In my twenties, I thought I was Robert De Niro and I invested all of myself in my acting. But, as I've got older, I've calmed down a bit. I've thrown my game plan out of the window.
Matthew Rhys
Game
,
Down
,
Thought
I'm not called Jude Law, I have three names; I'm called 'Hunk Jude Law' or 'Heartthrob Jude Law'. In England anyway, that's my full name. That's the cheap language that's thrown around, that sums you up in one little bracket. It doesn't look at your life. But if one looks beyond, there is actually a little bit more.
Jude Law
Life
,
Law
,
Around
We were never thrown into the situation in the middle of our lives, but grew up doing it. This is all we know, and some people who were thrown into it don't really know what to do or how to react and this is just kind of natural for us.
Mary-Kate Olsen
Lives
,
Situation
,
Natural
Saturday Night Live is such a comedy boot camp in a way, because you get to work with so many different people who come in to host the show and you get thrown into so many situations and learn how to think on your feet, so filmmaking actually feels slow, in a good way.
Will Ferrell
Work
,
Good
,
Live
There were a lot of signs being thrown at me, a lot of angels I was meeting, inspiring me to get back into show business.
Anna Chlumsky
Business
,
Show
,
Angels
The return of democracy in our land has indeed thrown the problems of development into bolder relief.
Ibrahim Babangida
Democracy
,
Problems
,
Return
I really didn't even have time to get that many lessons, to be honest, because I was suddenly on the road. I was kind of thrown in the deep end. But that wasn't a bad thing when I look back at it.
Caroline Corr
Time
,
End
,
Bad
It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Strange
,
Energy
,
Away
No one wants to go back to a situation where, if you have a pre-existing medical condition, you, you can be deprived of coverage. No one wants to go back to a situation where, if you get seriously ill, you can get thrown off your insurance. Seniors don't want to go back to paying more for their prescription drugs.
David Axelrod
Medical
,
Off
,
Situation
But we are not going to stand by and go back to allowing people with preexisting conditions to be discriminated against, go back to the situation where people can be thrown off their insurance simply because they become seriously ill or you can't get on your parents' insurance after the age of 20.
David Axelrod
Age
,
Parents
,
After
Sometimes when you're just thrown into something, you are more ready for it than when you have time to think it over and get nervous about it.
Lara Flynn Boyle
Time
,
Sometimes
,
Ready
I found at an early age the times when I learned the most about myself was when I got thrown out there on a stage in front of a microphone when you didn't really want to be out there, where you're kind of afraid.
Andrew Shue
Age
,
Learned
,
Afraid
I went to a Catholic high school and it seemed like every time I drew something for a class project, it either got thrown away by the teacher or something.
Mike Judge
Time
,
Teacher
,
School
There's so much going on in the world. There's so much information being thrown at us - so many things are being sold to us, and we're being told how we should appear and how to be more successful, blah, blah, blah. How does that manifest itself? In the pressures, the stress, this need to escape.
Michael Fassbender
Successful
,
Stress
,
Escape
I think it's being thrown at the wolves, we call it in our business.
Dick Van Dyke
Business
,
Call
,
Wolves
I've had horror movies thrown at me and I just don't want to do any because violence isn't really good for society.
Luke Ford
Good
,
Society
,
Movies
On the other hand, I don't understand the enthusiasm for everything in the antique shop that Grandma threw out. There, the sense of quality has declined; otherwise Grandma wouldn't have thrown it out.
Arne Jacobsen
Everything
,
Understand
,
Sense
I wrote my thesis on the benefits of war and very near got thrown out of college. But I can show you where the greatest advancement of mankind comes under stress and strain, not comfort.
Don Young
War
,
Greatest
,
Stress
I was thrown into the Parliament right away. From 1976 to 1978 I was concerned with the abortion issue, later on with that of divorce.
Emma Bonino
Away
,
Divorce
,
Concerned
The budget enforcement rules of the 1990s were an important part of getting the budget back into balance. It was done on a bipartisan basis. Those pay-as-you-go rules were tested and they worked. We are now in a one-party system, and we have thrown them out.
Melissa Bean
Important
,
Done
,
Getting
Sometimes, as is the case of peach and plum trees, which are often dwarfed, the plants are thrown into a flowering states, and then, as they flower freely year after year, they have little inclination to make vigorous growth.
Robert Fortune
After
,
Sometimes
,
Flower
Usually, there's nothing being thrown toward the stage or at me. Then I feel pretty good about it.
Wanda Sykes
Good
,
Nothing
,
Pretty
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