Fling Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• Come, fill the Cup, and in the Fire of Spring The Winter Garment of Repentance fling: The Bird of Time has but a little way To fly-and Lo! the Bird is on the Wing.

  Omar Khayyam

  Spiritual, Spring, Winter

  Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald (1993). “The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam”, p.21, Wordsworth Editions

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

  Lawren Harris

  Challenges, Demand, Methodology

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• Resolve that whatever you do, you will bring the whole man to it; that you will fling the whole weight of your being into it.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Commitment, Champion, Weight

  Orison Swett Marden (2015). “An Iron Will, He Can Who Thinks He Can & Pushing To The Front (Wisdom & Empowerment Series): How to Achieve Self-Reliance Which Leads to Vigorous Self-Faith, Personal Growth & Success”, p.84, e-artnow

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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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• 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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• Evasion of the unadorned immediacy of life is as deep-seated as it is relentless. Even with the ardent desire to be aware and alert in the present moment, the mind flings us into tawdry and tiresome elaborations of past and future. This craving to be otherwise, to be elsewhere, permeates the body, feeling, perceptions, will - consciousness itself. It is like the background radiation from the big bang of birth, the aftershock of having erupted into existence.

  Stephen Batchelor

  Past, Feelings, Mind

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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 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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• Retirement, it seems, is the final fling. The love boat, the trip-around-the-world.

  Klaus H. Carl

  Retirement, Finals, World

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• In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Knives, Civilization, Voice

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). “God in search of man: a philosophy of Judaism”

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• Fling me across the fabric of time and the seas of space. Make me nothing and from nothing-everything.

  Rumi

  Time, Sea, Space

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I must fling myself down and writhe; I must strive with every piece of force I possess; I bruise and batter myself against the floor, the walls; I strain and sob and exhaust myself, and begin again, and exhaust myself again; but do I feel pain? Never. How can I feel pain? There is no place for it.

  Harry Houdini

  Wall, Pain, Bruises

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Fling out, fling out, with cheer and shout, To all the winds of Our Country's Banner! Be every bar, and every star, Displayed in full and glorious manner! Blow, zephyrs, blow, keep the dear ensign flying! Blow, zephyrs, sweetly mournful, sighing, sighing, sighing!

  Abraham Coles

  Country, Stars, Cheer

  Abraham Coles (1880). “The microcosm, and other poems”

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• Earth does not understand her child,
  Who from the loud gregarious town
  Returns, depleted and defiled,
  To the still woods, to fling him down.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Children, Doe, Earth

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (1934). “Wine from these grapes”

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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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