Fling Quotes - Page 4

• Prayer is the little implement
  Through which Men reach
  Where Presence - is denied them.
  They fling their Speech
  By means of it - in God's Ear -
  If then He hear -
  This sums the Apparatus
  Comprised in Prayer

  Emily Dickinson

  Prayer, Mean, Men

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.276, Harvard University Press

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• One thing you cannot know: The sudden extinction of every alternative, The unexpected crash of the iron cataract. You do not know what hope is, until you have lost it. You only know what it is not to hope: You do not know what it is to have hope taken from you Or to fling it away, to join the legion of the hopeless Unrecognized by other men, though sometimes by each other.

  T. S. Eliot

  Hope, Taken, Men

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.290, Faber & Faber

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• Fling away your soul once for all, your own small self; if you will find it again. Count not even on immortality.

  James Anthony Froude

  Self, Soul, Immortality

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The nemesis of faith”, p.141

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• When the imagination is continually led to the brink of vice by a system of terror and denunciations, people fling themselves over the precipice from the mere dread of falling.

  William Hazlitt

  Fall, People, Imagination

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1484, Delphi Classics

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• Never give up! it is wiser and betterAlways to hope, than once to despair.Fling off the load of Doubt's cankering fetter,And break the dark spell of tyrannical care.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Giving Up, Dark, Doubt

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1849). “Poetical works”

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• I used to teach on a college level, and I've taught in schools where kids just wanted to be artists, and I used to be furious with them if they didn't read, because they just seemed so - their education seemed so thin if all they could do was pick up a paint-loaded brush and fling it at a canvas. I mean, there was nothing to express there, except maybe their own personal feelings. But if they're not - if they don't have a grounding in the way these things have been expressed by other people down through the centuries, then they're lost.

  David Small

  School, Mean, Kids

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 18, 2009.

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• Economists must leave to Adam Smith alone the glory of the Quarto, must pluck the day, fling pamphlets into the wind, write always sub specie temporis , and achieve immortality by accident, if at all.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Writing, Wind, Glory

  John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1971). “The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes: Essays in biography”

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• What has here happened is that the instinct of cruelty, which has turned inwards, has become self-torture, and all man's animal instincts have been reinterpreted as guilt towards God. Every Nay man utters to his nature, to his real being, he flings out as a Yea, an affirmation of reality applied to God's sanctity

  Georg Brandes

  Real, Animal, Men

  Georg Brandes (2015). “Friedrich Nietzsche (English Edition)”, p.22, WILLIAM HEINEMANN

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• Artists freeze themselves into these weird postures that are meant to be impressive and involving, then they fling them out into the world like Polaroids, and then they move on. And I'm stuck in this intense relationship to the Polaroid.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Moving, Artist, World

  "Fear of Music". Interview with Jayson Greene, pitchfork.com. May 29, 2012.

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• The good thing is in my case I'm all about love and communications, so there was no hard feelings, it was like ok we reached the end of this season and I wish you well and it's time to move on. As a pop song it's definitely open to many different interpretations, I received a call from a cousin saying that it helped her heal after an abusive relationship and another friend said it represented her of a summer fling. We tried to write carefully so that it can be relatable to cover a wide audience.

  Alyson Stoner

  Summer, Song, Cousin

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• I was never capable of being an average pupil. I would either seem refractory to any teaching and give the impression of being completely dumb or I would fling myself on my work with a frenzy, a patience, and a willingness to learn that astonished everybody. But to awaken my zeal, it was necessary to offer me something I liked. Once my appetite had been whetted, I became ravenously hungry.

  Salvador Dali

  Teaching, Average, Giving

  "Diary of a Genius". Book by Salvador Dali, pp. 5-6, 1964.

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• August is ripening grain in the fields blowing hot and sunny, the scent of tree-ripened peaches, of hot buttered sweet corn on the cob. Vivid dahlias fling huge tousled blossoms through gardens and joe-pye-weed dusts the meadow purple.

  Jean Hersey

  Weed, Sweet, Garden

  Jean Hersey (1967). “The Shape of a Year”

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• Up, then, with speed, and work;
  Fling ease and self away--
  This is no time for thee to sleep--
  Up, watch, and work, and pray!

  Horatius Bonar

  Sleep, Self, Watches

  Horatius Bonar (1858). “Hymns of Faith and Hope ... Third edition”, p.262

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• And when it has got in; as one not finding what it seeks, whatever that may be, it wails and howls to issue forth again: and not content with stalking through the aisles, and gliding round and round the pillars, and tempting the deep organ, soars up to the roof, and strives to rend the rafters: then flings itself despairingly upon the stones below, and passes, muttering, into the vaults.

  Charles Dickens

  Issues, May, Stones

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Dickens' Christmas Spirits: A Christmas Carol and Other Tales”, p.212, Courier Corporation

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• To tell men that they cannot help themselves is to fling them into recklessness and despair.

  James Anthony Froude

  Men, Despair, Helping

  James Anthony Froude (2004). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.3, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• What a strange joy it was to talk, to fish gleefully into the past and fling its fragments about us, with the unfailing aroma of pleasantness that pasts always seem to possess!

  Anne Bosworth Greene

  Past, Joy, Aroma

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• What we once fling away never comes again to us.

  Ethel M. Dell

  Rejection

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• This is a marvel of the universe:
  To fling a thought across a stretch of sky--
  Some weighty message, or a yearning cry,
  It matters not; the elements rehearse
  Man's urgent utterance, and his words traverse
  The spacious heav'ns like homing birds that fly
  Unswervingly, until, upreached on high,
  A quickened hand plucks off the message terse.

  Josephine Preston Peabody

  Men, Hands, Sky

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• It is the impulse of our century, with its nearly religious belief in magnitude, to fling an institution into every void.

  Shirley Hazzard

  Religious, Void, Belief

  Shirley Hazzard (1991). “Countenance of truth: the United Nations and the Waldheim case”, Vintage

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• O what a flowery track lies spread before me, henceforth! What dust clouds shall spring up behind me as I speed on my reckless way! What carts I shall fling carelessly into the ditch in the wake of my magnificent onset!

  Kenneth Grahame

  Spring, Lying, Clouds

  Kenneth Grahame, Seth Lerer (2009). “The Wind in the Willows: An Annotated Edition”, p.75, Harvard University Press

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• I should like to say that I left off smoking because I considered it a mean form of slavery, to be condemned for moral as well as physical reasons; but though I see the folly of smoking clearly now, I was blind to it for some months after I had smoked my last pipe. I gave up my most delightful solace, as I regarded it, for no other reason than that the lady who was willing to fling herself away on me said that I must choose between it and her.

  James M. Barrie

  Mean, Smoking, Slavery

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• Lay down the axe; fling by the spade;
  Leave in its track the toiling plough;
  The rifle and the bayonet-blade
  For arms like yours were fitter now;
  And let the hands that ply the pen
  Quit the light task, and learn to wield
  The horseman's crooked brand, and rein
  The charger on the battle-field.

  William C. Bryant

  War, Light, Hands

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• For we let our young men and women go out unarmed in a day when armor was never so necessary. By teaching them to read, we have left them at the mercy of the printed word. By the invention of the film and the radio, we have made certain that no aversion to reading shall secure them from the incessant battery of words, words, words. They do not know what the words mean; they do not know how to ward them off or blunt their edge or fling them back; they are prey to words in their emotions instead of being the masters of them in their intellects.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Teaching, Reading, Mean

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• What man's life is not overtaken by one or more of those tornadoes that send us out of the course, and fling us on rocks to shelter as best we may?

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Men, Rocks, Shelter

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2014). “Henry Esmond: The English Humourists; The Four Georges”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• Nowhere has truth such a short life as in Sicily; a fact has scarcely happened five minutes before its genuine kernel has vanished, been camouflaged, embellished, disfigured, squashed, annihilated by imagination and self interest; shame, fear, generosity, malice, opportunism, charity, all the passions, good as well as evil, fling themselves onto the fact and tear it to pieces; very soon it has vanished altogether.

  Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

  Short Life, Passion, Self

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