Famous quotes containing the words free, throws and/or attempted:
“Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon anothers great tribulation; not because any mans troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant.”
—Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus)
“Why should I apologize because God throws in crystal chandeliers, mahogany floors, and the best construction in the world?”
—Jim Bakker (b. 1940)
“There is ... a class of fancies, of exquisite delicacy, which are not thoughts, and to which, as yet, I have found it absolutely impossible to adapt language.... Now, so entire is my faith in the power of words, that at times, I have believed it possible to embody even the evanescence of fancies such as I have attempted to describe.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (18091849)