Top 100 Fling Quotes
#1. Come, fill the Cup, 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
Omar Khayyam
#2. In dinner talk it is perhaps allowable to fling any faggot rather than let the fire go out.
James M. Barrie
#3. And every moment one expects the sky to fling a barrage from clouds so leaden they hang low across the city roofs and drown the horizon.
Anne Perry
#4. I had gone far in search of the sun, and the sun, found at last, was hostile to me. And if I were to fling myself off a cliff? While I was making such rather grim speculations, considering these pines, these rocks, these waves, I suddenly felt how bound I was to this lovely, accursed universe.
Emil M. Cioran
#6. Don't be overwise; fling yourself straight into life, without deliberation; don't be afraid - the flood will bear you to the bank and set you safe on your feet again.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#7. Brandt and a couch-or worse, an empty master bedroom-were a very bad combo. He morphed from vaguely risque fling to bad-boy octopus man whenever he was in the vicinity of any marginally promising flat surface.
Diana Peterfreund
#8. Up, then, with speed, and work;
Fling ease and self away
This is no time for thee to sleep
Up, watch, and work, and pray!
Horatius Bonar
#9. The fact that she made this beeline for me both warmed my soul and made me want to turn around, walk out the door, and find a cliff to fling myself off of.
Lia Habel
#11. A low standard of prayer means a low standard of character and a low standard of service. Those alone labor effectively among men who impetuously fling themselves upward towards God.
Charles Brent
#12. Part of me wanted to fling myself on the bed and hold him. Part of me wanted to fling myself on the bed and pummel him.
Susan Nielsen
#13. What a strange joy it was to talk, to fish gleefully into the past and fling its fragments about us, with the unfailing aroma of pleasantness that pasts always seem to possess!
Anne Bosworth Greene
#14. With chemistry like theirs, this was the perfect setup for a fling ... and Sherry wanted to go out on a high note.
BRING ON THE ROADIE!
Rachel Harris
#15. [I don't get it. You guys look down on chimps for flinging their own poo but you think it's fine to fling other kinds of poo around? I mean, you get opposable thumbs and this is what you do with them?]
Kevin Hearne
#16. 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 pod. If God sows you, you will bring forth fruit.
Oswald Chambers
#17. When the imagination is continually led to the brink of vice by a system of terror and denunciations, people fling themselves over the precipice from the mere dread of falling.
William Hazlitt
#18. We live not in our moments or our years:
The present we fling from us like the rind
Of some sweet future, which we after find
Bitter to taste.
Richard Chenevix Trench
#19. When your eyes meet my solitude
Silence ripens, a fruit,
And sleep turns into storm.
Forbidden doors fling open
And water learns to suffer.
Joumana Haddad
#21. The day will come when we strike you down," she's saying. "Mark my words. We will haunt your nightmares."
I clench my fists and fling an illusion of pain across her body. "I am the nightmare.
Marie Lu
#22. Changed loves are but changed sorts of meat,
And when he hath the kernel eat,
Who doth not fling away the shell?
John Donne
#23. To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace
Vincent Van Gogh
#24. 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.
Jonathan Swift
#25. Here was a short-term kind of girl begging for a long-term relationship from a long-term kind of guy who wanted a fling.
It was movie-worthy.
Lauren Layne
#26. What man's life is not overtaken by one or more of those tornadoes that send us out of the course, and fling us on rocks to shelter as best we may?
William Makepeace Thackeray
#27. Come, fill the Cup, and in the Fire of Spring The Winter Garment of Repentance fling: The Bird of Time has but a little way To fly-and Lo! the Bird is on the Wing.
Omar Khayyam
#29. I think you should, yeah. You should wash your beard, then shave it off, nail it to a Frisbee and fling it over a rainbow.
Dylan Moran
#30. We cannot fling ourselves into the blank future; we can only call up images from the past. This being so, the important principle follows, that how many images we have largely depends on how much past we have.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#32. Winter glanced over at Cirrus again and found him glaring at Moon and Kinkajou with an expression of searing hatred, so intense that Winter wanted to run across the clearing and fling up his wings to shield Moon from it.
Tui T. Sutherland
#33. Indeed. Oh, and Fal?"
"Yeah?"
"Get laid, while you're up there, won't you?"
"Oh, God."
"Seriously. Your hymen's going to grow back, it's been so long. Have a fling. It might lighten you up."
"Goodbye, Rache."
Meg Maguire, The Reluctant Nude
Meg Maguire
#34. Help me to fling my life like a flaming firebrand into the gathering darkness of the world.
Albert Schweitzer
#35. He is not in the habit of explaining himself. He is not in the habit of discussing his successes. But whenever good fortune has called on him, he has been there, planted on the threshold, ready to fling open the door to her timid scratch on the wood.
Hilary Mantel
#36. Characters aren't a fling. They aren't a one-night stand. Getting to know them takes time and hard work. It takes excessive free writes and multiple experiments.
Margaret Foley
#37. After several months in our trio relationship, my husband and I started telling friends about our girlfriend... No one seemed to mind the concept of an occasional three-way fling with a stranger, but the concept of dating a third person was a bit much for polite company.
Victoria Vantoch
#38. And so blinded was she by those gleams of glory which the stars fling into the eyes of young lovers, that she saw perfection where none existed ... p146
Radclyffe Hall
#39. My mood, I say, was one of exaltation. I felt as a seeing man might do, with padded feet and noiseless clothes, in a city of the blind. I experienced a wild impulse to jest, to startle people, to clap men on the back, fling people's hats astray, and generally revel in my extraordinary advantage.
H.G.Wells
#40. What if I become a lawyer?' 'Please don't do that,' says Ruiz. 'Why not?' 'They're like monkeys who get dressed up and fling poo at each other.
Michael Robotham
#41. Earth does not understand her child,
Who from the loud gregarious town
Returns, depleted and defiled,
To the still woods, to fling him down.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#42. You know enough of me to believe me when I say I am not going anywhere. Not without you. You stay, I stay. You're not a fling, Amelia. For me, you are the reason to stop running.
Susan May Warren
#43. His eyes were closed, waiting. I tilted my head, slowly taking in every detail of his face.
And suddenly, something remarkable happened, like a switch turned on deep inside my chest. Instead of wanting to make out, to have a summer fling ... I wanted to fall in love.
Ophelia London
#44. I've recovered my tenderness by long looking;
I'm a Socrates of small fury.
The waves bends with the fish. I'm taught
As water teaches stone. Believe me, extremest oriole,
I can hear light on a dry day.
The world is where we fling it; I'm leaving where I am.
Theodore Roethke
#45. Why, if the Soul can fling the Dust aside,
And naked on the Air of Heaven ride,
Is it not a Shame
is it not a Shame for him
So long in this Clay suburb to abide!
Omar Khayyam
#46. Dreams are the subtle Dower
That make us rich an Hour
Then fling us poor
Out of the purple door.
Emily Dickinson
#47. You can't fling the hands up in a passionate gesture when you are driving a car at fifty miles an hour. Otherwise, I should have done so.
P.G. Wodehouse
#48. On of the prerequisites for my mobile phone is that I have to be able to fling it at a wall if I lose my temper.
Sara Sheridan
#49. People could see by your actions on the park that you cared about it. If we got beat, I'd fling the Sunday papers in the bin and wouldn't read them.
Drew Busby
#50. It is the impulse of our century, with its nearly religious belief in magnitude, to fling an institution into every void.
Shirley Hazzard
#51. E continues to cling to the forlorn hope that I will turn into one of those swooning females ... and fling myself squeeling at him whenever anything happens. Like all men, he clings to his illusions.
Elizabeth Peters
#52. O what a flowery track lies spread before me, henceforth! What dust clouds shall spring up behind me as I speed on my reckless way! What carts I shall fling carelessly into the ditch in the wake of my magnificent onset!
Kenneth Grahame
#53. It's good to share a life - and it's good to share minutes and hours, too, Danny thinks. With a wife. With a husband. With a boyfriend, girlfriend, best friend. With a fling. With a brother.
David Levithan
#54. Won't hurt you." "Says the man who turns into a freaking lion." "Hey, don't act like you're so surprised. I told you I did." "But I didn't think you meant it," she said with a fling of her
Eve Langlais
#55. I knew that I had seen, had seen at last
That girl my unremembering nights hold fast
Or else my dreams that fly
If I should rub an eye,
And yet in flying fling into my meat
A crazy juice that makes the pulses beat ...
William Butler Yeats
#56. To horse and away To the heart of the fray! Fling care to the Devil for one merry day!
William Henry Ogilvie
#57. Now, Max, I have told you many times that you are my publisher, and permanently, as far as one can fling about the word in this too mutable world....The idea of leaving you has never for one single moment entered my head.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#58. Never give up! it is wiser and betterAlways to hope, than once to despair.Fling off the load of Doubt's cankering fetter,And break the dark spell of tyrannical care.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
#59. Are you telling me we're fling into Jupiter?"
"No, we'll probably crash into Io first," Shirosaki said.
"The thought of diving head first into a sea of magma doesn't exactly turn me on.
Sayuri Ueda
#60. I met a guy, very exotic to me - he was blonde with blue eyes - and I just had a fling that turned out to be love. I moved to San Francisco to spend a week with him and get him out of my system; I'm still here 26 years later.
Isabel Allende
#61. This was exhausting. If she was going to make this kind of emotional investment in someone, he should at least be a proper boyfriend. But for a casual fling? She could drive herself crazy.
Lauren Weisberger
#62. We did some cool wire work in 'The Pact' - they had me strapped to a harness underneath my shirt so they could fling me around the house and slam me into doors. I definitely got some bruises even with all the padding!
Caity Lotz
#63. Conroy writes that, while part of him was following the basketball game from the bench, the other part, an embassy of a completely sovereign nation, would fling its doors open to the most authentic part of me.
Pat Conroy
#64. His chains chinked softly. I seldom fling children from towers to improve their health. Yes, I meant for him to die.
George R R Martin
#65. So the being grows rings; identity becomes robust. What was fiery and furtive like a fling of grain cast into the air and blown hither and thither by wild gusts of life from every quarter is now methodical and orderly and flung with a purpose
so it seems.
Virginia Woolf
#66. He preferred to ease his way into the day, whereas Amelia liked to fling herself at it full tilt.
Lisa Kleypas
#67. You're treating your relationship with God like a fling. As it means nothing to Him and nothing to you. As if you can walk away from each other. But God doesn't operate that way.
Susan May Warren
#68. If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#69. 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.
John Maynard Keynes
#70. Fling out, fling out, with cheer and shout, To all the winds of Our Country's Banner! Be every bar, and every star, Displayed in full and glorious manner! Blow, zephyrs, blow, keep the dear ensign flying! Blow, zephyrs, sweetly mournful, sighing, sighing, sighing!
Abraham Coles
#71. I'm telling you, go hook up. It isn't like you'll ever see him again. Fun Florida Fling. Ha-ha, the three Fs!" I want to laugh, but I shake my head. "No way. That's all I need. To have sex, get pregnant or get an STD, or worse, catch feelings for the dude. He's obviously a player.
Toni Aleo
#72. Fling away your soul once for all, your own small self; if you will find it again. Count not even on immortality.
James Anthony Froude
#73. I can't promise you forever, Blaine. Hell, I don't even know if I can promise you tomorrow. And you deserve so much more than a fling.
Nya Rayne
#75. My heart trips over itself in a race to get closer to her. Something is happening. Something strange and completely foreign. My heart is speaking a language I don't understand as it tries to fling itself at Charlotte. Great. Now, that's two organs I have to do battle with every day.
Lauren Blakely
#76. August is ripening grain in the fields blowing hot and sunny, the scent of tree-ripened peaches, of hot buttered sweet corn on the cob. Vivid dahlias fling huge tousled blossoms through gardens and joe-pye-weed dusts the meadow purple.
Jean Hersey
#77. Sweet, sweet burn of sun and summer wind, and you my friend, my new fun thing, my summer fling.
K.d. Lang
#78. Hot tip: If you're a human having a fling with a werewolf, break it off. Now.
Glen Duncan
#79. What we once fling away never comes again to us.
Ethel M. Dell
#80. Social mores change all the time. In the mid-1970s, it would've been astonishing, say, to see two men holding hands in the streets. And the attitude to having a fling with a girl, or whatever, was quite different then.
Robert Harris
#81. The world has its fling at lawyers sometimes, but its very denial is an admission. It feels, what I believe to be the truth, that of all secular professions this has the highest standards.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#82. Love wasn't a fling in a back room at a party. It was something you lived and died for.
Richelle Mead
#83. 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 who had first coined them.
Alexander McCall Smith
#85. This has always been the way of presidential politics. The president rises above the fray while his surrogates go on the attack. They throw the spears and fling the mud; he sits upon the throne.
John Podhoretz
#86. 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 adequate formula for prayer. 'I come to adore His splendour, and fling myself and all that I have at His feet', is the only possible formula for worship.
Evelyn Underhill
#87. It is the way of mortals. They fling themselves at life and emerge broken.
Patricia Briggs
#88. Retirement, it seems, is the final fling. The love boat, the trip-around-the-world.
Klaus H. Carl
#89. In the business I meet some beautiful women, but to be honest, 80 per cent of them are raving lunatics and are to be avoided. It's just insecurity; actors are generally quite insecure. I wouldn't date, or I've never had a fling with an actress, and I'd quite like to keep it that way.
Rory McCann
#90. May love's kindred treasure box fling your luminescent glove.
Isabel Yosito
#91. Horses have hoofs to carry them over frost and snow; hair, to protect them from wind and cold. They eat grass and drink water, and fling up their heels ... Such is the real nature of horses.
Zhuangzi
#92. He was being mighty chary with my money. Now that I was so rich, I could fling open the windows and doors and set the thermostat on forty, if I wanted to do something so foolish and wasteful.
Charlaine Harris
#93. Hello?"
"How's it going?" Dane asked.
I relaxed at the familiar voice. "I'm having a fling with a younger man," I told him. "He's kind of short for me, and there's a little incontinence problem ... but we're working to get beyond all that.
Lisa Kleypas
#94. The morality of an action depends on the motive from which we act. If I fling half a crown to a beggar with intention to break his head and he picks it up and buy victuals with it, the physical effect is good. But with respect to me the action is very wrong.
Samuel Johnson
#95. There are so many ideas that you just come up with on a day-to-day basis when you're a writer that it's very difficult to want to go back to an old fling, so to speak.
Pierce Brown
#96. him with someone who'd signed up for a no-strings fling, which gave him a free pass for a mindless fuck with no guilt.
Jennifer Probst
#98. I'm a firm believer that all sports will eventually be global. Someday, we may have a quarterback from China named Yao Fling.
Paul Tagliabue
#99. My mother told me Homer Ditto was not my father. Nope. Mom had had a fling with some other guy who was my dad. Some dude who didn't stick around too long who Mom was happy to get rid of. She chose Homer, and Homer chose me, so he lent me his name even though I didn't have his blood.
Beth Ditto
#100. Find your purpose and fling your life out to it. Find a way or make one. Try with all your might. Self-made or never made.
Orison Swett Marden
