Flung Quotes

144 quotes by 123 authors

Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass. — Rupert Brooke
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and… — Willa Cather
...for those whose favorite season is autumn with its days of cloudless sky, of spacious and clear, far-flung panoramas - those who view nature with… — Charlton Ogburn
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth of… — John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry above may cause us to… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. You cannot… — Mark Twain
The grace of God, says Luther, "is like a flying summer shower." It has fallen upon more than one land, and passed on. Judea had… — Alexander MacLaren
Over my head his arm he flung, Against the world. — Robert Browning
Every ordinary thing in your life is a word of God's love: your home, your work, the clothes you wear, the air you breathe, the… — Caryll Houselander
Again the early-morning sun was generous with it's warmth. All the sounds dear to a horseman were around me-the snort of the horses as they… — Wynford Vaughan-Thomas
Human societies as temporally and spatially far-flung as the Mesopotamians, Mayans, and Easter Islanders likely came to ruin by expanding beyond the capacity of their… — William E. Rees
I am to be broken. I am to be derided all my life. I am to be cast up and down among these men and… — Virginia Woolf
I see at last that all the knowledge I wrung from the darkness - that darkness flung me - Is worthless as ignorance: nothing comes… — Randall Jarrell
Consider the many special delights a lawn affords: soft mattress for a creeping baby; worm hatchery for a robin; croquet or badminton court; baseball diamond;… — Katharine Sergeant Angell White
Ignorant men do not know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away. — Sophocles
The hood-winked husband shows his anger, and the word jealous is flung in his face. Jealous husband equals betrayed husband. And there are women who… — August Strindberg
there is a world, in a far-flung corner of our galaxy, where women have no nipples and motor cars, though legally capable of 70 mph… — Trevor Beattie
A word is all it takes to put a man in prison, or to seize his property, or to end his life. A saber might… — Galen Beckett
SACERDOTALIST, n. One who holds the belief that a clergyman is a priest. Denial of this momentous doctrine is the hardest challenge that is now… — Ambrose Bierce
Infidelity gives nothing in return for what it takes away. What, then, is it worth? Everything valuable as a compensating power. Not a blade of… — Thomas Chalmers

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