Quotation Explorer - 'Flung'

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out the window by man, but coaxed downstairs, a step at a time. - Mark Twain
Fight ever on: this earthly stuff If used God’s way will be enough. Face to the firing line o friendFight out life’s battle to the end. One soldier, when the fight was red,Threw down his broken sword and fled.Another snatched it, won the day, With what his comrade flung away. - Edwin Markham
He judged the instant and let go; he flung himself loose into the stars. - Annie Dillard
Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away. - Sophocles
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. - Andre Malraux
Lord Ronald said nothing; he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions. - Stephen Leacock
At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities. - Jean Houston
I get my share of mud flung my way, but the secret is to dance in the rain and the mud will wash away. - Philip Catshill
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 around him. - Jodi Picoult
Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. - Mark Twain
MEDICINE, n. A stone flung down the Bowery to kill a dog in Broadway. - Ambrose Bierce
SACERDOTALIST, n. One who holds the belief that a clergyman is a priest. Denial of this momentous doctrine is the hardest challenge that is now flung into the teeth of the Episcopalian church by the Neo-Dictionarians. - Ambrose Bierce
Our imagination loves to be filled with an object or to grasp at anything that is too big for it's capacity. We are flung into a pleasing astonishment at such unbounded views and feel a delightful stillness and amazement in the soul at the apprehension of them. - Joseph Addison
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