Fling Quotes - Page 2

• I'm a firm believer that all sports will eventually be global. Someday, we may have a quarterback from China named Yao Fling.

  Paul Tagliabue

  Funny, Sports, Football

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• If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Moments, Existence

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2003). “Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None”, p.3, Algora Publishing

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• I wish I could just fling myself into bed with you, but I can’t. I don’t want to be used that way and I don’t want to use you! Can’t you understand that?

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Wish, Bed, Use

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2002). “Fantasy Lover”, p.89, Macmillan

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• Even if I had stayed she wouldn't have ever wanted me. She didn't want me for anything more than a summer fling. I was a way of moving on for her.

  Abbi Glines

  Summer, Moving, Want

  Abbi Glines (2013). “While It Lasts”, p.244, Simon and Schuster

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• The smell of the sea swept over the wall and in through the empty window-hole, wide and wild with a million intoxicating secrets. I don't trust that smell. It hooks us somewhere deeper than reason or civilization, in the fragments of our cells that rocked in oceans before we had minds, and it pulls till we follow mindlessly as rutting animals....It lures us to leap off high cliffs, fling ourselves on towering waves, leaves behind everyone we love and face into thousands of miles of open water for the sake of what might be on the far shore.

  Tana French

  Wall, Ocean, Animal

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• The beauty is forever there before us, forever piping to us, and we are forever failing to dance. We could not help but dance if we could see things as they really are. Then we should kiss both hands to Fate and fling our bodies, hearts, minds, and souls into life with a glorious abandonment, an extravagant, delighted loyalty, knowing that our wildest enthusiasm cannot more than brush the hem of the real beauty and joy and wonder that are always there.

  Margaret Prescott Montague

  Life, Loyalty, Real

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• New material demands new methods, and new methods fling a challenge to old convention.

  Lawren Harris

  Challenges, Demand, Methodology

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• In France, for example, it is not unusual for a husband to have a wife and a mistress. However, if in addition to these two he's also having a fling with a fringe tootsie, both the wife and the mistress are outraged and the combination lover, husband, and cheat may well wind up with a large French bread knife between his ribs.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Husband, Humorous

  Groucho Marx (2008). “Memoirs Of A Mangy Lover”, p.192, Da Capo Press

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• The morality of an action depends on the motive from which we act. If I fling half a crown to a beggar with intention to break his head and he picks it up and buy victuals with it, the physical effect is good. But with respect to me the action is very wrong.

  Samuel Johnson

  Crowns, Half, Morality

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1824). “The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished”, p.349

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• Characters aren't a fling. They aren't a one-night stand. Getting to know them takes time and hard work. It takes excessive free writes and multiple experiments.

  Margaret Foley

  Hard Work, Writing, Character

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• With the broad and powerful swing of the hand which Zola in The Earth gave to his ploughman, L'Auto, journal of ideas and action, is going to fling across France today those reckless and uncouth sowers of energy who are the great professional riders of the world... From Paris to the blue waves of the Mediterranean, from Marseille to Bordeaux, passing along the roseate and dreaming roads sleeping under the sun, across the calm of the fields of the Vendée, following the Loire, which flows on still and silent, our men are going to race madly, unflaggingly.

  Henri Desgrange

  Dream, Powerful, Sleep

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• There is a subtle danger in a man thinking that he is "fixed" for life. It indicates that the next jolt of the wheel of progress is going to fling him off.

  Henry Ford

  Men, Thinking, Progress

  Henry Ford (2015). “My Life and Work: Top Biography”, p.29, 谷月社

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• Every life has dark tracts and long stretches of somber tint, and no representation is true to fact which dips its pencil only in light, and flings no shadows on the canvas.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Inspirational, Dark, Light

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• How often might a man, after he had jumbled a set of letters in a bag, fling them out upon the ground before they would fall into an exact poem, yea, or so much as make a good discourse in prose? And may not a little book be as easily made by chance as this great volume of the world?

  John Tillotson

  Education, Book, Fall

  John Tillotson (1714). “The works of the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson, late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury: containing fifty four sermons and discourses on several occasions. Together with The Rule of Faith. Being all that were published by His Grace himself and now collected into one volume, to which is added an alphabetical table of the principle matter”, p.15

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• Are you looking for something real in this world of illusions? Call me. Casual Flings need not apply. I am looking for Love.

  Aprilynne Pike

  Real, World, Looking For Love

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• Seeing and playing with physical objects can enable access to symbolic ideas. When I studied physics and math at university it was all done through equations and textbooks whereas artists go to art school and start making stuff; they fling paint at the walls, they dance and bash things together with giant bits of metal. Our society has come to think of science as being a very abstractified thing, and art as being a materialized thing.

  Margaret Wertheim

  Art, Wall, School

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Nothing but blackness above And nothing that moves but the cars... God, if you wish for our love, Fling us a handful of stars!

  Louis Untermeyer

  Stars, Moving, Car

  LOUIS UNTERMEYER (1921). “MODERN AMERICAN POETRY”

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• I've always wanted to sail to the South Seas, but I can't afford it. What these men can't afford is not to go. They are enmeshed in the cancerous discipline of security. And in the worship of security we fling our lives beneath the wheels of routine — and before we know it our lives are gone.

  Sterling Hayden

  Men, Sea, Discipline

  Sterling Hayden (2015). “Wanderer”, p.42, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Come, therefore, and let us fling mud at them!

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Funny, Mud

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2004). “The Scarlet Letter - Second Edition: A Romance”, p.161, Broadview Press

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• Seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert him from laying violent hands upon the ship.

  Jonathan Swift

  Hands, Whales, Amusement

  Jonathan Swift, William Wotton (1811). “A tale of a tub,: written for the universal improvement of mankind. To which is added, An account of a battle between the ancient and modern books in St. James's Library”, p.43

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• His chains chinked softly. I seldom fling children from towers to improve their health. Yes, I meant for him to die.

  George R. R. Martin

  Children, Towers, Chains

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.1291, Bantam

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• I had rather chop this hand off at a blow,
  And with the other fling it at thy face.

  William Shakespeare

  Sassy, Blow, Hands

  William Shakespeare (2013). “First Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III”, p.650, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Because beyond their practical function, all gestures have a meaning that exceeds the intention of those who make them; when people in bathing suits fling themselves into the water, it is joy itself that shows in the gesture, notwithstanding any sadness the divers may actually feel. When someone jumps into the water fully clothed, it is another thing entirely: the only person who jumps into the water fully clothed is a person trying to drown; and a person trying to drown does not dive headfirst; he lets himself fall: thus speaks the immemorial language of gestures.

  Milan Kundera

  Fall, Sadness, Water

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• He doesn't deserve it. he can have any girl in the world's love and he took yours. someone who deserves so much more than a summer fling

  Abbi Glines

  Girl, Summer, World

  Abbi Glines (2013). “Breathe”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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• To-morrow would bring its own trial with it; so would the next day, and so would the next; each its own trial, and yet the very same that was now so unutterably grievous to be borne. The days of the far-off future would toil onward, still with the same burden for her to take up, and bear along with her, but never to fling down; for the accumulating days, and added years, would pile up their misery upon the heap of shame.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Years, Next Day, Toil

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1935). “The Scarlet Letter (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.38, Sparklesoup LLC

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