Fling Quotes - Page 7

• I know why the caged bird sings, ah me, When his wing is bruised and his bosom sore,- When he beats his bars and would be free; It is not a carol of joy or glee, But a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core, But a plea, that upward to Heaven he flings- I know why the caged bird sings!

  Paul Laurence Dunbar

  Prayer, Heart, Wings

  Paul Laurence Dunbar (2012). “Selected Poems”, p.28, Courier Corporation

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• And wheresoe'er thou move, good luck Shall fling her old shoe after.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Moving, Good Luck, Shoes

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.511, Delphi Classics

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• When I was little, my friends would gush over wedding gowns and honeymoons. But I saw too many people flush decades together down the toilet over money or kids or meaningless flings. My own parents chose to stay married, which I think is rather funny, since they show about as much affection for each other as pit bulls in a ring. Tying the knot means slipping a noose around love and choking it to death.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Mean, Kids, Thinking

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• I think I'm just a summer fling that people will soon forget.

  John Oliver

  Summer, Thinking, People

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• I knew that I had seen, had seen at last
  That girl my unremembering nights hold fast
  Or else my dreams that fly
  If I should rub an eye,
  And yet in flying fling into my meat
  A crazy juice that makes the pulses beat.

  William Butler Yeats

  Girl, Dream, Crazy

  William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.233, Hayes Barton Press

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• Look, I know what you're thinking. You're thinking I said no because the whole thing would just be too Dirty Dancing , right? Summer fling at the resort, only with the roles reversed: you know, the poor working girl and the rich doctor's son, nobody puts Baby in the corner, blah blah blah. That kind of thing.

  Meg Cabot

  Summer, Girl, Baby

  Meg Cabot (2009). “Young Blood”, p.26, Pan Macmillan

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• Here, my dear Lucy, hide these books. Quick, quick! Fling "Peregrine Pickle" under the toilette -throw "Roderick Random" into the closet -put "The Innocent Adultery" into "The Whole Duty of Man"; thrust "Lord Aimworth" under the sofa! cram "Ovid" behind the bolster; there -put "The Man of Feeling" into your pocket. Now for them.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Book, Reading, Men

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• I had fun. That’s what I believe in. Fun, flings, the sizzle. It starts as a shiver, when you see a man for the first time. And then he meets your eye and the shiver runs down your back and becomes a sizzle in your stomach and you think 'I want to dance with that man.' You dance, you have a cocktail or two, you flirt.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Running, Fun, Believe

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• If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Spring, Adversity, Winter

  Anne Bradstreet (1867). “The Works of Anne Bradstreet in Prose and Verse”, p.51

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• Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!'

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Motivational, Easter

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• If we had not winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Inspirational, Life, Appreciation

  Anne Bradstreet, Adelaide P. Amore (1982). “A woman's inner world: selected poetry and prose of Anne Bradstreet”

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  You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.

  Pablo Neruda

  Inspiring, Hope, Spring

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• High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces.

  Camille Paglia

  Struggle, Fire, Lovely

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• Bearing in his right paw the shovel that digs to the truth beneath appearances, cut the roots of useless attachments, and flings damp sand on the fires of greed and war; His left paw in the Mudra of Comradely Display - indicating that all creatures have the full right to live to their limits and that deer, rabbits, chipmunks, snakes, dandelions, and lizards all grow in the realm of the Dharma.

  Gary Snyder

  War, Cutting, Animal

  Gary Snyder (2009). “Back on the Fire: Essays”, p.125, Counterpoint

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• That's beautiful: the hurrah game! well — it's our game: that's the chief fact in connection with it: America's game: has the snap, go fling, of the American atmosphere — belongs as much to our institutions, fits into them as significantly, as our constitutions, laws: is just as important in the sum total of our historic life.

  Walt Whitman

  Beautiful, Law, Games

  "With Walt Whitman in Camden". Book by Horace Traubel, Vol. IV (p. 508), 1906.

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• An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Light, Lamps, Sentences

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1852). “Romance and reality”, p.70

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• Fling yourself at life and let yourself feel what you do feel upon the very tick of the second; snatch the images of life that fly through the brain. If you are very frank with yourself and don't mind how ridiculous anything that comes to you may seem, you will have a chance of capturing the symbols of your direct reactions. Thus, you will, perhaps, find yourself reaching a heightened sense of awareness completely outside the realm of mundane experience.

  Mina Loy

  Brain, Finding Yourself, Mind

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• If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself into the yawning gulf, as the soldier flings himself into the enemy's trenches, and if, once in this crater, he does not work like a miner on whom the walls of his gallery have fallen in; if he contemplates difficulties instead of overcoming them one by one ... he is simply looking on at the suicide of his own talent.

  Honore de Balzac

  Suicide, Wall, Writing

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• The people with very hard problems are understood by God. He knows what wretched machines they are trying to drive. Some day he will fling them away and give those people new ones; then they may astonish everyone, for they learned their driving in a hard school. Some of the last will be first and some of the first will be last.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, School, People

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• To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Coffee, Drink, Good Work

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• In times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings--artists, scientists, clowns and philosophers--to create order. In times such as ours, however, when there is too much order, too much management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery. To relive the repression of the human spirit, they must sow doubt and disruption.

  Tom Robbins

  Men, Artist, Order

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.215, Bantam

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• As the genuine religious impulse becomes dominant, adoration more and more takes charge. 'I come to seek God because I need Him', may be an adequate formula for prayer. 'I come to adore His splendour, and fling myself and all that I have at His feet', is the only possible formula for worship.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Religious, Prayer, Feet

  Evelyn Underhill (2002). “Worship”, p.9, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.

  Winston Churchill

  Book, Writing, Adventure

  Winston Churchill (1965). “Winston Churchill, His Wit and Wisdom: Selections from His Works and Speeches”

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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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• 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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