“ I was born and bred in a distant region that cosmographers call Finlandia, a beautiful and far-flung country unknown to most educated people. ”
- Mika Waltari- Copy
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“ Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass. ”
- Rupert Brooke- Copy
- 1.6K
“ Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away. ”
- Sophocles- Copy
- 3.3K
“ 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- Copy
- 1.3K
“ O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells; Rise up - for you the flag is flung - for you the bugle trills. ”
- Walt Whitman- Copy
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“ At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities. ”
- Jean Houston- Copy
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“ Lord Ronald said nothing; he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions. ”
- Stephen B. Leacock- Copy
- 2.7K
“ I am to be broken. I am to be derided all my life. I am to be cast up and down among these men and women, with their twitching faces, with their lying tongues, like a cork on a rough sea. Like a ribbon of weed I am flung far every time the door opens. ”
- Virginia Woolf- Copy
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“ She flung herself full-length on the stage, drummed with her feet and, taking the corner of a small Persian rug in her teeth, worried it while I sat rigid and appalled on the sofa, pressed back against the chintz cushions. ”
- Alec Guinness- Copy
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“ Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung wide: him all tongues greet, all honors crown, all eyes follow with desire. Our love goes out to him and embraces him, because he did not need it. We solicitously and apologetically caress and celebrate him, because he held on his way and scorned our disapprobation… ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Willa Cather- Copy
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“ The hood-winked husband shows his anger, and the word jealous is flung in his face. Jealous husband equals betrayed husband. And there are women who look upon jealousy as synonymous with impotence, so that the betrayed husband can only shut his eyes, powerless in the face of such accusations. ”
- Johan August Strindberg- Copy
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“ The grace of God, says Luther, "is like a flying summer shower." It has fallen upon more than one land, and passed on. Judea had it, and lies barren and dry. These Asiatic coasts had it, and flung it away. ”
- Alexander Maclaren- Copy
- 2.2K
“ In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry above may cause us to forget their existence, and the buried ones, or prisoners whom they hide. But sometimes, and oftenest at midnight, those dark receptacles are flung wide open… ”
- Nathaniel Hawthorne- Copy
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