Thrown Under Bus Quotes

#1. Thrown under the bus by my own kids. I just can't believe it."
"I wouldn't throw you under the bus, Daddy," Kristen said seriously.
"Thank you, sweetie.

Nicholas Sparks

#2. Isn't it time that, in love, we freed ourselves
from the loved one and, trembling, endured:
as the arrow endures the string, collecting itself
to be more than itself as it shoots?

Rainer Maria Rilke

#3. If you don't like to read, you haven't found the right book.

J.K. Rowling

#4. Honesty, integrity, and accountability, the values, which should be the hallmark of this government, have instead been thrown under the bus by an arrogant majority, casualties in a misguided campaign to shield from accountability those who abuse this House.

Louise Slaughter

#5. The job is nothing but a twenty-ring circus-with a whole lot of bad actors.

Herbert Hoover

#6. If you want a quality, act as if you already have it. If you want to be courageous, act as if you were - and as you act and persevere in acting, so you tend to become.

Norman Vincent Peale

#7. Learn from competitors but never copy them. Copy them and you will die.

Porter Erisman

#8. John McCain from the very beginning has been unflinchingly loyal to Sarah Palin. He has never thrown her under the bus. He has never conceded it was a bad decision to pick her. He has never ever said a bad word against her.

Rachel Maddow

#9. if you want to create and capture lasting value, don't build an undifferentiated commodity business.

Peter Thiel

#10. 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

#11. I opened my mouth to tell him he was full of shit, to tell him I knew he'd thrown me under the bus, but all that came out was, Braaiinns.

Diana Rowland

#12. A new theory is guilty until proven innocent, and the pre-existing theory innocent until proven guilty ... Continental drift was guilty until proven innocent.

David M. Raup

#13. The first book is the book you have to write to get back at your parents; the book you always had in you. Once you get that out of your way, you can start writing books,

Shirley Jackson

#14. One more cockeyed optimist thrown under the reality bus.

Deborah Coonts

#15. Our break-up had been a resounding anti-climax. I wanted to be wept over, bitterly. I wanted to be fought for. Mourned, or regretted just a little.
I wanted to feel like I was someone who'd been worth having in the first place.

Catherine Sanderson

#16. Anything is grand if it's done on a large enough scale.

Donna Tartt