Hurling Quote by Jeffrey Eugenides Download Open image “and she had succeeded, on the second try, in hurling herself out of the world” — Jeffrey Eugenides ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Hurling Success Trying World
She had to have faith not just in trying but in failing. Was she strong enough to fail Was she strong enough not to — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
Success is an absurd, erratic thing. She arrives when one least expects her and after she has come may depart again almost because of… — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
“Over the sea there dwelt a queen whose like was never known, for she was of vast strength and surpassing beauty. With her love… — The Nibelungenlied Copy Share Image
“She'd convinced herself that Subhash was her rival, and that she was in competition for him for Bela, a competition that felt insulting, unjust.… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
Nothing was easy, and sometimes she failed, and sometimes she thought that the fairy stories were right, that there must indeed be easier ways… — Sonya Hartnett Copy Share Image
What were the odds that she'd turn away at the same instant the ball came flying her way? And that she'd be holding a soda in a crowd at a volleyball game she didn't even want to watch, in a place she didn't want to be? In a million years, the same thing should probably never happen again. With odds… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share
She was a mischief, and that was a satisfaction; no longer was she a huntress of corralled game — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
From a purely physical standpoint she didn't have a chance, but her attitude was that death was better than capitulation. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even if it meant that she had failed, she was glad. And if what she'd wanted had been impossible from the start, still there… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
I think she was ready to go. Not to be kicked out. Go at the top. Undefeated. — Denis Thatcher Copy Share Image
All her life she had made her own mistakes and her own successes, both usually by trying what others said she could not do. — Vonda N. McIntyre Copy Share Image
“Only the Lisbon house remained dark, a tunnel, an emptiness, past our smoke and flames.” — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“She had just started living like a grown-up and she'd never felt more vulnerable, frightened or confused in her life.” — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
It's often said that a traumatic experience early in life marks a person forever, pulls her out of line, saying, "Stay there. Don't move. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“The window was still open,” Mr Lisbon said. “I don’t think we’d ever remembered to shut it. It was all clear to me. I… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I was aware that you weren't supposed to write about suburbia, that it was undignified in some way, the subject matter not momentous enough.… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“Dr. Armonson stitched up her wrist wounds. Within five minutes of the transfusion he declared her out of danger. Chucking her under the chin,… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“I don't approve of women driving, mind you. And now they get to vote!" He grumbled to himself. "Remember that play we saw ("The… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I know that attaching memories to books may be going out of the world, but while it lasts, it's a strong record of your… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I spend most of every day writing. I like to write every day if I can. I don't start extremely early. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I was at Mount Tamalpais near San Francisco hiking when a boulder came hurling down the mountainside and smashed my left hand. When I… — Pablo Casals Copy Share Image
Time is the warp and matter the weft of the woven texture of beauty in space, and death is the hurling shuttle. — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Publishing a book is like stuffing a note into a bottle and hurling it into the sea. Some bottles drown, some come safe to… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Publishing a book is like stuffing a note into a bottle and hurling it into the sea. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries you have these great nation states hurling their young men at one another. The victory was really going… — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
Sean Óg ó Hailpín… his father's from Fermanagh, his mother's from Fiji, neither a hurling stronghold. — Micheal O Muircheartaigh Copy Share Image
Rather than sitting on the sidelines & hurling judgment & advice, we must dare to show up & let ourselves be seen. This is… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
The world is MADE up of language. We can SAY that the world is composed of little demons doing calisthenics, each one the size… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it is when… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Hurling looks a bit like a cross between lacrosse and second degree murder. — David Feherty Copy Share Image
You say to me that there is more to life than hurling but if you want to carry on like a fella who is… — Brian Cody Copy Share Image
