Quotes About Flings

#1. Brief flings and the companionship of a professional are no match for the love and trust between a husband and wife.

Barbara Longley

#2. Every life has dark tracts and long stretches of somber tint, and no representation is true to fact which dips its pencil only in light, and flings no shadows on the canvas.

Alexander MacLaren

#3. In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#4. I feel giddy with the intimacy of being where he thinks and dreams, where he changes his clothes and flings them absolutely all over the place, where he's naked.

Jandy Nelson

#5. I'm wondering how someone who goes around wearing a wedding ring succeeded in the dating pool. Normally a wedding ring sends a flashing "Do Not Enter" message - except to those looking for flings with married people.

Emily Yoffe

#6. I'm not one for flings, I can tell you that.

Julian Lennon

#7. The fox when it sees a flock of herons or magpies or birds of that kind, suddenly flings himself on the ground with his mouth open to look as he were dead; and these birds want to peck at his tongue, and he bites off their heads.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#8. Are you looking for something real in this world of illusions? Call me. Casual Flings need not apply. I am looking for Love.

Aprilynne Pike

#9. ...He's a wonderful person and I'd fall head over heels in love with him if I haven't already, there's no doubt about it. And there's no doubt that he'd eventually leave me. There's no way anything between us would go somewhere. I'm done with flings. I want the next thing--the real thing.

Karyn Bosnak

#10. To be a Christian is not a pious pose. It is not a long list of restrictions. Christianity flings open the windows to the real joy of living. Those who have been truly converted to Jesus Christ know the meaning of abundant living.

Billy Graham

#11. I know why the caged bird sings, ah me, When his wing is bruised and his bosom sore,- When he beats his bars and would be free; It is not a carol of joy or glee, But a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core, But a plea, that upward to Heaven he flings- I know why the caged bird sings!

Paul Laurence Dunbar

#12. An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#13. Then the short man disappears through the huge doors. Minutes later, the aide-de-camp flings open the shutters of an upstairs window and gazes a moment across the rooftops before unfurling a crimson flag over the brick and securing its eyelets to the sill.

Anthony Doerr

#14. White Chocolate. Intense, sweet. But not deep. Okay for prom dates or flings, but not to get serious..Milk chocolates are guys you could date for like a few months, and dark chocolates are for love.

E. Lockhart

#15. Oh how the family affections combat
Within this heart, and each hour flings a bomb at
My burning soul! Neither from owl nor from bat
Can peace be gained until I clasp my wombat.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

#16. Still from the fount of joy's delicious springs Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom flings.

Lord Byron

#17. Lose your balance for a moment and there you go, the world flings you off its spinning surface and its not so easy to scramble back on.

Christina Sunley

#18. The world is a looking-glass which flings back to us the reflection of ourselves. If we laugh it laughs back at us. If we shed tears, it reflects a sorrowful face.

Orison Swett Marden

#19. Affairs are the stuff movies are made of; flings are for TV.

Gisela Hausmann

#20. But china is seldom thrown from a great height; it is one of the rarest of human actions. You have to find in conjunction a very high house, and a woman of such reckless impulse and passionate prejudice that she flings her jar or pot straight from the window without thought of who is below.

Virginia Woolf

#21. Autumn flings her fiery cloak over the sumac, beech and oak.

Susan Lendroth

#22. Who is to blame for this most recent of sports disgraces in America? The culture that flings young athletes like Tyson up out of obscurity, makes millionaires of them and watches them self-destruct?

Joyce Carol Oates

#23. At Harvard I was taking an African-American studies class, and we were reading about the tragic mulatto. Invariably, the tragic mulatto can't fit in either world and flings herself off a bridge. So I'm reading, and I'm like, 'Oh, my God, I think I'm in literature,' but my life was never like that.

Soledad O'Brien

#24. Whirl man's mind around about so fast under the pumping hands of publishers, exploiters, broadcasters that the centrifuge flings off all unnecessary, time-wasting thought!

Ray Bradbury

#25. What then? Joy-jaunts, impassioned flings, Love and its ecstasy, Will always have been great things, great things to me!

Thomas Hardy

#26. I didn't toss aside my plan to steer clear of meaningless rebound flings because I can't resist a French maid costume. I didn't say yes to bedding my boss, the woman signing my paychecks, because you showed up at my door looking like a male fantasy. I couldn't resist you." "You

Sara Jane Stone

#27. Summer flings always seemed amazing in movies, though that might be because the leading man did not ever call his romantic interest dude.

Thomm Quackenbush

#28. I'm not interested in light little flings, skin-deep attractions, or long loveless marriages. With you, I only want raw, full-blooded connection, to share a bond full of passion and breathtaking adventure. After all, love is not a pastime but a privilege.

Beau Taplin

#29. He was always greedy; though what he grasps with one hand he flings away wit the other.

Emily Bronte

#30. Tis Fate that flings the dice,
And as she flings
Of kings makes peasants,
And of peasants kings.

John Dryden

#31. There was something savage and elemental and feral in him. The fact that he was a savant only added to the intrigue.
I always go for the dangerous boys, Leesha thought.

Cinda Williams Chima

#32. Summer bachelors like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.

Nora Ephron

#33. Stop worrying about when this ends. You can't tell me the thought hasn't crossed your mind that it won't.

Scarlet Wolfe

#34. Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly.

William Shakespeare

#35. He appreciated you. But he couldn't feed your soul for the rest of your life. Can't you just appreciate that he was great for you for that period of time?

Susan E. Isaacs