Flung Quotes
144 quotes by 118 authors
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But there was not a moment when she did not see Carol in her mind, and all she saw, she seemed to see through Carol.…
— Patricia Highsmith
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Sometimes there aren't words. The silence between us is flung wide as an ocean. But I manage to reach across it, to wrap my arms…
— Jodi Picoult
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The fortune my spirit is not to be blown into coins of brass and flung to the winds as alms for the poor of the…
— Ayn Rand
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Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one’s life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one’s…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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There was something about being in the vicinity of Grahame Coats that always made Fat Charlie (a) speak in cliches and (b) begin to daydream…
— Neil Gaiman
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To be loved, feelings must be rationed. To love, the doors of hysteria, fantasy, and madness may be flung open.
— Anton Szandor LaVey
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I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen,…
— Emily Bronte
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I flung open the door. I got a momentary flash of about a hundred and fifteen cats of all sizes and colours scrapping in the…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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If in some smothering dreams you too could pace Behind the wagon that we flung him in, And watch the white eyes writhing in his…
— Wilfred Owen
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Let eloquence be flung to the dogs rather than souls be lost. What we want is to win souls. They are not won by flowery…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Sometimes a crumb falls From the tables of joy, Sometimes a bone Is flung. To some people Love is given, To others Only heaven.
— Langston Hughes
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Heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the angels were so…
— Emily Bronte
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The secret of fortune is joy in our hands. Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I stood looking down out of the window. The street seemed miles down. Suddenly I felt as if I'd flung myself out of the window.…
— Doris Lessing
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He flung his arms around her neck, but only once he saw Silvertoungue's back was turned. He never knew with fathers. "I'll save him, Meggie!"…
— Cornelia Funke
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While we are actually subjected to them, the 'moods' and 'spirits' of nature point no morals. Overwhelming gaiety, insupportable grandeur, sombre desolation are flung at…
— C.S. Lewis
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She would be quiet at first. Then she would say a word about something small, something she had noticed, and then another word, and another,…
— Amy Tan
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They played at hearts as other children might play at ball; only, as it was really their two hearts that they flung to and fro,…
— Gaston Leroux
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Almost as swiftly as he had imagined it, she had torn her clothes off, and when she flung them aside it was with that same…
— George Orwell
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And at last father flung the rug off as if it were hampering him and strode over to the table saying, 'cocoa, cocoa!'-- it might…
— Dodie Smith
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