Fling Quotes

• Find your purpose and fling your life out to it. Find a way or make one. Try with all your might. Self-made or never made.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Self, Inspire, Trying

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• Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!

  Virginia Woolf

  Death, Tombstone, Memorial

  The Waves (1931)

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• It's not the thing you fling, it's the fling itself.

  J. Christopher Stevens

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• Go, forget me! why should sorrow
  O'er that brow a shadow fling?
  Go, forget me, and to-morrow
  Brightly smile and sweetly sing!
  Smile,—though I shall not be near thee;
  Sing,—though I shall never hear thee!

  Charles Wolfe

  Happiness, Smile, Laughter

  Charles Wolfe (1827). “Remains of the Late Rev. Charles Wolfe ...: With a Brief Memoir of His Life”, p.44

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• Sweet, sweet burn of sun and summer wind, and you my friend, my new fun thing, my summer fling.

  K. D. Lang

  Summer, Sweet, Fun

  Song: Summerfling

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• We die in proportion to the words we fling around us.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Writing, Proportion, Dies

  "A Short History of Decay". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1949.

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• It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what.

  John Galsworthy

  Spring, Men, May

  John Galsworthy (2013). “The Forsyte Saga”, p.114, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The gods spend the wealth the universe gathers, they scan the wonders and fling them to nothingness. That's why they're the gods! I told you they were devils.

  Fritz Leiber

  Devil, Wonder, Wealth

  Fritz Leiber (2014). “The Wanderer”, p.341, Open Road Media

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• Whenever I'm out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think, I fling myself down on my back, throw my arms and legs out so that I look like an asterisk, and gaze at the sky.

  Alan Bradley

  Thinking, Doors, Sky

  Alan Bradley (2016). “The Flavia de Luce Series 7-Book Bundle”, p.272, Delacorte Press

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• Having a fling with you doesn't appeal to me. You're handsome, but you're too inexperienced to be good in bed. Having ridden many horses doesn't make you a good rider; it just proves that you can't recognize a good one or don't know how to keep her.

  Ilona Andrews

  Horse, Bed, Handsome

  Ilona Andrews (2012). “Steel's Edge”, p.68, Penguin

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• If you do not fling old ideas out of your mind, you cannot give birth to new ones.

  Peter Deunov

  Ideas, Giving, Mind

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• Get into the habit of dealing with God about everything. Unless in the first waking moment of the day you learn to fling the door wide back and let God in, you will work on a wrong level all day; but swing the door wide open and pray to your Father in secret, and every public thing will be stamped with the presence of God.

  Oswald Chambers

  God, Faith, Letting Go

  Oswald Chambers (1994). “My Utmost for His Highest: The Golden Book of Oswald Chambers : Features the Author's Daily Prayers”, Discovery House Pub

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• On the geological time scale, a human lifetime is reduced to a brevity that is too inhibiting to think about deep time. ... Geologists ... see the unbelievable swiftness with which one evolving species on the Earth has learned to reach into the dirt of some tropical island and fling 747s across the sky ... Seeing a race unaware of its own instantaneousness in time, they can reel off all the species that have come and gone, with emphasis on those that have specialized themselves to death.

  John McPhee

  Thinking, Islands, Race

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• And I was afraid. She frightens me because she can knock me down with a word. Because she does not know that writing is walking on a dizzying silence setting one word after the other on emptiness. Writing is miraculous and terrifying like the flight of a bird who has no wings but flings itself out and only gets wings by flying.

  Helene Cixous

  Writing, Wings, Silence

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• I need to admit up front that I don't know how to have a fling. I'm not good at playing around and then saying good-bye. I'm throwing myself at your feet because I'm hoping for a shot at forever." Henry Jenkins/Mr. Nobley

  Shannon Hale

  Bye, Feet, Forever

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• I think I hoped for something more. Maybe I even hoped that I could find in Richard what I had with Ben. But it is suddenly very clear: Richard is not fallin in love with me and I'm not falling in love with Richard. We are not creating anything permanent or special. We are only having fun together. It is a fling- a fling just like he said last night- a fling with an ending yet to be determined. I feel relieved to have it defined

  Emily Giffin

  Falling In Love, Fun, Night

  "Baby Proof". Book by Emily Giffin, June, 2006.

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• That was our first time together. Interesting, an interesting experience, but not earth-shaking. But then, I never expected it to be earth-shaking, not with him. What I was determined to avoid was emotional entanglement. A passing fling was one thing, an affair of the heart quite another. Of myself I was fairly sure. I was not about to lose my heart to a man about whom I knew next to nothing.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Heart, Men, Emotional

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• Help me to fling my life like a flaming firebrand into the gathering darkness of the world.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Darkness, Gathering, World

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• With their tinted windows up, the cars of the rich go like dark eggs down the roads of Delhi. Every now and then an egg will crack open a woman's hand, dazzling with gold bangles, stretches out an open window, flings an empty mineral water bottle onto the road and then the window goes up, and the egg is resealed.

  Aravind Adiga

  Dark, Hands, Eggs

  Aravind Adiga (2008). “The White Tiger”, p.81, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• If you will fling yourself under the wheels, Juggernaut will go over you; depend upon it.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Over You, Juggernaut, Wheels

  William Makepeace Thackeray, Edgar F. Harden (2005). “The Snobs of England: And, Punch's Prize Novelists”, p.11, University of Michigan Press

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• No man can hope to accomplish anything great in this world until he throws his whole soul, flings the force of his whole life, into it. It is not enough simply to have a general desire to accomplish something. There is but one way to do that; and that is, to try to be somebody with all the concentrated energy we can muster.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Men, Soul, Desire

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• Jev stroked his chin. "Do I look like a summer fling?

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Summer, Looks, Chins

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.742, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm wondering how someone who goes around wearing a wedding ring succeeded in the dating pool. Normally a wedding ring sends a flashing "Do Not Enter" message - except to those looking for flings with married people.

  Emily Yoffe

  People, Dating, Messages

  "Ring of Ire". "Dear Prudence" with Emily Yoffe, www.slate.com. December 12, 2011.

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• But if you are a poor creature--poisoned by a wretched up-bringing in some house full of vulgar jealousies and senseless quarrels--saddled, by no choice of your own, with some loathsome sexual perversion--nagged day in and day out by an inferiority complex that makes you snap at your best friends--do not despair. He knows all about it. You are one of the poor whom He blessed. He knows what a wretched machine you are trying to drive. Keep on. Do what you can. One day He will fling it on the scrap-heap and give you a new one. And then you may astonish us all - not least yourself.

  C. S. Lewis

  Blessed, Giving, House

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• I met a guy, very exotic to me - he was blonde with blue eyes - and I just had a fling that turned out to be love. I moved to San Francisco to spend a week with him and get him out of my system; I'm still here 26 years later.

  Isabel Allende

  Eye, Blue, Years

  "The Mystery Of Isabel Allende: Author Explores New Genre". "All Things Considered" with Kelly McEvers, nwpr.org. January 25, 2014.

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