Fling Quotes

We die in proportion to the words we fling around us. (Emil Cioran)
He flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions. View quote
Stephen Leacock
The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness. View quote
André Malraux
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 stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world. View quote
Willa Cather
Go, forget me! why should sorrow O'er that brow a shadow fling? Go, forget me, and to-morrow Brightly smile and sweetly sing! Smile,-though I shall not be near thee; Sing,-though I shall never hear thee! View quote
Charles Wolfe
Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away. View quote
Sophocles
At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities. View quote
Jean Houston
Over my head his arm he flung Against the world. View quote
Robert Browning
Seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert him from laying violent hands upon the ship. View quote
Jonathan Swift
Unwind my riddle. Cruel as hawks the hours fly; Wounded men seldom come home to die; The hard waves see an arm flung high; Scorn hits strong because of a lie; Yet there exists a mystic tie. Unwind my riddle. View quote
Stephen Crane
The gods spend the wealth the universe gathers, they scan the wonders and fling them to nothingness. That's why they're the gods! I told you they were devils. (Fritz Leiber)
The people are never so perfectly backed, but that they will kick and fling if not stroked at seasonable times. View quote
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
Come, fill the Cup, and in the fire of Spring Your Winter-garment of Repentance fling: The Bird of Time has but a little way To flutter - and the Bird is on the Wing. View quote
Omar Khayyám
How many we know who have fled the sweetness of a tranquil life in their homes, among the friends, to seek the horror of uninhabitable deserts; who have flung themselves into humiliation, degradation, and the contempt of the world, and have enjoyed these and even sought them out. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
Wise words are like arrows flung at your forehead. What do you do? Why, you duck of course. View quote
Steven Erikson
Life - give me life until the end, That at the very top of being, The battle-spirit shouting in my blood, Out of the reddest hell of the fight I may be snatched and flung Into the everlasting lull, The immortal, incommunicable dream. View quote
William Ernest Henley
I don't keer w'at you do wid me, Brer Fox,' sezee, 'so you don't fling me in dat brier-patch. Roas' me, Brer Fox' sezee, 'but don't fling me in dat brier-patch,' sezee. View quote
Joel Chandler Harris
I was never capable of being an average pupil. I would either seem refractory to any teaching and give the impression of being completely dumb or I would fling myself on my work with a frenzy, a patience, and a willingness to learn that astonished everybody. But to awaken my zeal, it was necessary to offer me something I liked. Once my appetite had been whetted, I became ravenously hungry. View quote
Salvador Dalí
Fling but a stone, the giant dies. View quote
Matthew Green
Joseph is the wearisomest and self-righteous Pharisee who ever ransacked the Bible to rake the promises to himself and fling the curses on his neighbor. View quote
Emily Brontë
That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions. (Larry Wall)
Economists must leave to Adam Smith alone the glory of the Quarto, must pluck the day, fling pamphlets into the wind, write always sub specie temporis, and achieve immortality by accident, if at all. View quote
John Maynard Keynes
In accordance with my conception of life, I have chosen not to bring children into the world. A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung out into the cosmic brutality without hesitation. View quote
Peter Wessel Zapffe
I'm a lot less travelled as an adult than I was as a child, but I think living in far flung places gives you a perspective on the world and people that adds flavour to your writing. View quote
Sarah Pinborough
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, they had to be very, very handy to catch them, each time, without hurting them. View quote
Gaston Leroux