Quotes About Life Throws Curve Balls

#1. Life doesn't exactly give us what we need when it's the perfect time. It's not a pitching machine straight over the plate. Life throws curve balls - hard and fast, unpredictable. But you still have to hit that sucker or strike out swinging.

Kandi Steiner

#2. When life throws you curve balls, become a curve ball hitter.

C.L. Swinney

#3. Now what on earth or under it has happened?" said Thorin. "Certainly not the dragon, or he would not go on squeaking.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#4. Life throws many curve balls, and if you don't swing ... you're never going to hit any!

Taylor Hicks

#5. You were supposed to be my wingman, not my freaking kamikaze pilot.

Katelin LaMontagne

#6. Civility is just lying to people about your true feelings. Hiding for personal gain.
Popular people, well, they're just the best liars.

Rick Remender

#7. 50,000-63,000 individuals in the United States and 19,000-25,000 in the UK die prematurely from cancer annually due to insufficient vitamin D.

John Cannell

#8. You may as well say, 'That's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

William Tecumseh Sherman

#9. The existing confusion of conflicting creeds and sects is fitly represented by the term "Babylon," which prophecy (Revelation 14:8) applies to the world-loving churches of the last days.

Ellen G. White

#10. But life inevitably throws us curve balls, unexpected circumstances that remind us to expect the unexpected. I've come to understand these curve balls are the beautiful unfolding of both karma and current.

Carre Otis

#11. Wolfram," Dan mused, a far-off look in his eye. "I've heard of that from somewhere." Amy was skeptical. "Are you sure you're not thinking of Wolfgang?

Gordon Korman

#12. Sharing one umbrella,
We have to hold each other,
Round the waist to keep together,
You ask me why I'm smiling-
It's because I'm thinking,
I want it to rain forever.

Vicki Feaver

#13. Keeping house is as unpleasant and filthy as coal mining, and the pay's a lot worse.

P. J. O'Rourke

#14. Theseus made unscrupulous use of Ariadne (whom he left on an island where Bacchus later found her-I always think that really meant she took to drink, poor girl).

Diana Wynne Jones

#15. The rights essential to happiness ... We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings and Lord of all the earth.

John Dickinson

#16. You may have a plan, but life throws you curve balls. Put God first; his plan is better anyway.

Lisa Vidal

#17. Life has a funny way of creating it's own tests. It throws curve balls that make you do and think and feel things that are in direct conflict with what you had planned and don't allow you to operate in terms of black and white.

K.A. Tucker

#18. I want to be made better personally. That is the gig.

Keith Carter

#19. Adventure! People talked about the idea as if it were something worthwhile, rather than a mess of bad food, no sleep and strange people inexplicably trying to stick pointed objects in bits of you.

Terry Pratchett