Fling Quotes
125 quotes by 116 authors
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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,…
— Harry Houdini
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Who is to blame for this most recent of sports disgraces in America? The culture that flings young athletes like Tyson up out of obscurity,…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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You see? Characters in books do not read books. Oh, they snap them shut when somebody enters a room, or fling them aside in disgust…
— Michael Swanwick
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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…
— Henri Desgrange
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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…
— John Tillotson
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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…
— Henry Ford
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Sweet, sweet burn of sun and summer wind, and you my friend, my new fun thing, my summer fling.
— K D Lang
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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
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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…
— Evelyn Underhill
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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,…
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Whenever I'm out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think, I fling myself down on my back, throw my arms and legs out…
— Alan Bradley
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Retirement, it seems, is the final fling. The love boat, the trip-around-the-world.
— Klaus H. Carl
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Fling me across the fabric of time and the seas of space. Make me nothing and from nothing-everything.
— Rumi
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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…
— Margaret Prescott Montague
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In the course of that night I suddenly realized that there are many tiny windows between the body and the spirit. If they're open, emotions…
— Susanna Tamaro
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We should be careful of the insults we fling at others, lest they return and land at our feet, newly minted to apply to those…
— Alexander McCall Smith
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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…
— C.S. Lewis
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Let God fling you out (as seed), and do not go until He does. If you select your own spot, you will prove an empty…
— Oswald Chambers
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The day dawns; the morning star is bright upon the horizon! The iron gate of our prison stands half open. One gallant rush from the…
— Frederick Douglass
Who Wrote These Fling Quotes
116 authors contributed a total of 125 Fling Quotes, led by these top contributors: