Hurling Quotes - Page 2

• Rather than sitting on the sidelines & hurling judgment & advice, we must dare to show up & let ourselves be seen. This is vulnerability. This is daring greatly.

  Brené Brown

  Advice, Sitting, Judgment

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• When people start hurling insults at you, you know their minds are closed and there's no point in debating. You disengage yourself as quickly as possible from the situation.

  Judith Martin

  People, Mind, Insult

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• An individual dies ... when, instead of taking risks and hurling himself toward being, he cowers within, and takes refuge there.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Risk, Individual, Refuge

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• Publishing a book is like stuffing a note into a bottle and hurling it into the sea.

  Margaret Atwood

  Book, Sea, Bottles

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• As a rule reading fiction is as hard to me as trying to hit a target by hurling feathers at it. I need resistance to celebrate!

  William James

  Reading, Book, Trying

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• In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries you have these great nation states hurling their young men at one another. The victory was really going to rest on who could do the best job of bringing up their kids to become efficient and effective soldiers. That's pretty grandiose, I guess, but I do think that, and thank God it's been the armies of democracy that have emerged from this as the triumphant armies.

  Stephen Ambrose

  Peace, Jobs, War

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• The husband was a teetotaller, there was no other woman, and the conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling them at his wife.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Husband, Wife, Teeth

  Arthur Conan Doyle, Scott McKowen (2004). “The Adventures and the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes”, p.34, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• Rage - Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus' son Achilles, murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses, hurling down to the House of Death so many sturdy souls, great fighters' souls, but made their bodies carrion, feasts for the dogs and birds, and the will of Zeus was moving toward its end. Begin, Muse, when the two first broke and clashed, Agamemnon lord of men and brilliant Achilles.

  Homer

  Dog, Moving, Loss

  Homer (2002). “The Iliad”, Spark Notes

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• and she had succeeded, on the second try, in hurling herself out of the world

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Trying, World, Virgin Suicides

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.28, Macmillan

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• Publishing a book is like stuffing a note into a bottle and hurling it into the sea. Some bottles drown, some come safe to land, where the notes are read and then possibly cherished, or else misinterpreted, or else understood all too well by those who hate the message. You never know who your readers might be.

  Margaret Atwood

  Hate, Book, Sea

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• If I didn't have writing, I'd be running down the street hurling grenades in people's faces.

  Paul Fussell

  Running, Writing, People

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• The world is MADE up of language. We can SAY that the world is composed of little demons doing calisthenics, each one the size of a pissant's eyebrow.... Or we can SAY the world is made of tiny wave mechanical packets of matter hurling through space at near the speed of light.... But notice that what we get each time are WORDS.

  Terence McKenna

  Eyebrows, Space, Light

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• I approximated the Black Friday experience at home by hurling myself into a wall a number of times and then ordering online.

  Kumail Nanjiani

  Thanksgiving, Friday, Wall

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• It's not fear of striking out that makes me reluctant to step up to the plate. It's the fear of getting hit in the head by a 90 mph fastball, the pitcher coming off of the mound to stomp me with her cleats while I am down, the rest of the opposing team rushing out of the dugout hurling insults as they kick me and spit on me, while all along the crowd in the stands is cheering them on and laughing at my failure. So, no, it's not the fear of striking out that keeps me from stepping up to the plate.

  Jim Copeland

  Cheer, Fear, Team

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• You say to me that there is more to life than hurling but if you want to carry on like a fella who is not an inter-county hurler, well then there will be more to life than hurling. Lots more. But there won't be hurling. That's the reality of it.

  Brian Cody

  Reality, Want, More To Life

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• They charge us with anti-Semitism…The truth is, those hurling these charges harbor a 'passionate attachment' to a nation not our own that causes them to subordinate the interests of their own country and to act on an assumption that, somehow, what's good for Israel is good for America.

  Pat Buchanan

  Country, Israel, Attachment

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• I would rather play with forked lightning, or take in my hand living wires with their fiery current, than to speak a reckless word against any servant of Christ, or idly repeat the slanderous darts which thousands of Christians are hurling on others, to the hurt of their own souls and bodies.

  A. B. Simpson

  Christian, Hurt, Soul And Body

  A.B. Simpson “The Holy Spirit, or, Power from on high”, Рипол Классик

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• This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.

  Terence McKenna

  Mind Blowing, Magic, Bed

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• We humans are obsessed with lights...Perhaps it is our way of hurling the constellations back at the sky.

  Diane Ackerman

  Light, Sky, Way

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• One of the great things about being ignorant is that I often think my ideas are original. It's a wonderful feeling. That's why I try to avoid any knowledge that would spoil the sensation. Sometimes it isn't easy. People keep hurling knowledge at me, and I can't always duck.

  Scott Adams

  Knowledge, Thinking, Ideas

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• Outside, you don't hear a single bird, and a deathly, oppressive silence hangs over the house and clings to me as if it were going to drag me into the deepest regions of the underworld.... I wander from room to room, climb up and down the stairs and feel like a songbird whose wings have been ripped off and who keeps hurling itself against the bars of its dark cage.

  Anne Frank

  Dark, Wings, House

  Anne Frank (2011). “The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition”, p.86, Bantam

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• Later on, when I tried to imagine how I might have ruined things, that would occur to me - that I'd so rarely resisted, that I hadn't made it hard enough for him. Maybe it was like gathering your strength and hurling your body against a door you believe to be locked, and then the door opens easily - it wasn't locked at all - and you're standing looking into the room, trying to remember what it was you thought you wanted.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Believe, Doors, Trying

  Curtis Sittenfeld (2005). “Prep: a novel”

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