Hurling Quotes:

and she had succeeded, on the second try, in hurling herself out of the world

- Jeffrey Eugenides

topic: Trying, World, Hurling, Virgin Suicides

You say to me that there is more to life than hurling but if you want to carry on like a fella who is not an inter-county hurler, well then there will be more to life than hurling. Lots more. But there won't be hurling. That's the reality of it.

- Brian Cody

topic: Reality, Want, Hurling, Fellas

I can hardly forbear hurling things at him.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1809). “The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.258

topic: Hurling, I Can

An individual dies ... when, instead of taking risks and hurling himself toward being, he cowers within, and takes refuge there.

- Emile M. Cioran

topic: Risk, Individual, Hurling

I have something to tell you non-smokers that I know for a fact that you don't know, and I feel it's my duty to pass on information at all times. Ready?. . . . Non-smokers die every day . . . Enjoy your evening. See, I know that you entertain this eternal life fantasy because you've chosen not to smoke, but let me be the 1st to POP that bubble and bring you hurling back to reality . . . You're dead too.

- Bill Hicks

topic: Reality, Information, Evening, Smokers, Back To Reality

Sean Óg ó Hailpín.... his father's from Fermanagh, his mother's from Fiji, neither a hurling stronghold.

- Micheal O Muircheartaigh

topic: Mother, Father, Fiji, Strongholds, Hurling

A Kerry footballer with an inferiority complex is one who thinks he's just as good as everybody else.

- John B. Keane

topic: Thinking, Inferiority, Inferiority Complex, Ireland And The Irish, Hurling

Pat Fox out to the forty(yard line) and grabs the sliothar(ball), I bought a dog from his father last week. Fox turns and sprints for goal, the dog ran a great race last Tuesday in Limerick. Fox to the 21 fires a shot, it goes to the left and wide......and the dog lost as well.

- Micheal O Muircheartaigh

topic: Dog, Father, Race, Limerick, Great Race

When my friends were besotted with Jason Donovan, my heroes were Colm O'Rourke and Barney Rock

- John B. Keane

topic: Hero, Rocks, Jason, Hurling

Life isn't all beer and skittles.

- Thomas Hughes

source: Tom Brown's Schooldays pt. 1, ch. 2 (1857)

topic: Life, Beer, Skittles, Hurling

No, I'm not mistaken. I know you don't love me. But I'm going to fight for your love. There are some things in life that are worth fighting for to the end. You are worth it.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Fighting, Ends, You Don't Love Me, Worth Fighting For, Things Worth Fighting For

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

- Octavia Butler

topic: Friendship, Letting Go, Art, Songs And Friendship, Special Friendship

Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.

- Terence McKenna

topic: Dream, Teacher, Commitment, Impossible Dream, Nature Love

Hurling looks a bit like a cross between lacrosse and second degree murder.

- David Feherty

topic: Lacrosse, Degrees, Looks, Hurling

In biblical times, I stoned people to death. Now they are repaying me by hurling pucks at my head.

- Gilles Gratton

topic: Biblical, Hockey, People, Goalies, Repaying

Truth usually makes no sense. If your desire is for everything to make perfect sense, then you should take refuge in fiction. In fiction, all threads tie together in a neat bow and everything moves smoothly from one point to the next to the next. In real life, though... nothing makes sense. Bad things happen to good people. The pious die young while the wicked live until old age. War, famine, pestilence, death all occur randomly and senselessly and leave us more often than not scratching our heads and hurling the question 'why?' into a void that provides no answers.

- Peter David

source: Peter David (2008). “Tigerheart”, p.85, Del Rey

topic: Real, War, Moving, Pious, Nothing Makes Sense

Maybe that’s what religion is, hurling yourself off a cliff and trusting that something bigger will take care of you and carry you to the right place.

- Maria Semple

source: "Where'd You Go, Bernadette". Book by Maria Semple, www.npr.org. 2012.

topic: Hurling

You're more than Dauntless," he says in a low voice. "But if you want to be just like them, hurling yourself into ridiculous situations for no reason and retaliating against your enemies without any regard for what's ethical, go right ahead. I thought you were better than that, but maybe I was wrong.

- Veronica Roth

topic: Voice, Enemy, Want, Hurling

I took delight in hurling books across the room if I knew I would not be reading the second chapter. Then I’d go and pick them up again, because they are books, after all, and we are not savages.

- Neil Gaiman

topic: Book, Reading, Savages, Hurling

Zen cuts straight through the Quidditch match in progress and almost gets taken down by a Beater hurling a Nerf quaffle right at his machopartes.

- Megan McCafferty

topic: Taken, Cutting, Progress, Quidditch, Hurling

Rodney set a plate in front of me and one in front of my mother. I almost fainted when she began to eat instead of hurling it at him. Had one of the vampires gotten tired of her bitching and bitten her into a better mood? She caught my flabbergasted look. "I watched what he put in it" she said defensively. Rodney, instead of being insulted, just laughed. "You're welcome, Justina.

- Jeaniene Frost

topic: Mother, Tired, Vampire, You Re Welcome, Hurling

I was at Mount Tamalpais near San Francisco hiking when a boulder came hurling down the mountainside and smashed my left hand. When I looked at my mangled bloody fingers, I had a strange reaction. 'Thank God I will never have to play again,' I said. The fact is that dedication to one's art does involve a sort of enslavement.

- Pablo Casals

topic: Art, Work, Dedication, Enslavement, Hurling

What we were trying to do was take the notion of Greek tragedy, of fated and doomed people, and instead of these Olympian gods, indifferent, venal, selfish, hurling lightning bolts and hitting people in the ass for no reason — instead of those guys whipping it on Oedipus or Achilles, it’s the postmodern institutions . . . those are the indifferent gods.

- David Simon

source: "Stealing Life" by Margaret Talbot, www.newyorker.com. October 22, 2007.

topic: Selfish, Oedipus, People, Olympian Gods, Lightning Bolts

If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions, not wholly unworthy of its almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly, alone, hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.

- Abraham Lincoln

source: Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45”, p.65, Library of America

topic: Country, Soul, World, Hurling

Almost without exception, members of great groups see themselves as winning underdogs, as a feisty David hurling fresh ideas at a big, backward-looking Goliath. They always have an "enemy."

- Warren G. Bennis

source: Source: bobmorris.biz

topic: Winning, Ideas, Enemy, Fresh Ideas, Feisty

The candidates unleashing heated words about race, bigotry, and intolerance. Donald Trump chasing the minority vote and hurling a blistering accusation at his opponent.

- Martha Raddatz

source: Source: abcnews.go.com

topic: Race, Minorities, Opponents, Unleashing, Hurling

Time is the warp and matter the weft of the woven texture of beauty in space, and death is the hurling shuttle.

- Annie Dillard

topic: Space, Woven, Texture, Warp, Hurling

...a vocal minority of scientists so mistrusts the models and the complex fragmentary data, that some claim that global warming is a hoax. They have made public statements accusing other scientists of deliberate fraud in aid of their research funding. Both sides are now hurling personal epithets at each other, a very bad development in Earth sciences.

- Joanne Simpson

topic: Data, Research, Development, Accusing, Earth Science

Rather than sitting on the sidelines & hurling judgment & advice, we must dare to show up & let ourselves be seen. This is vulnerability. This is daring greatly.

- Brené Brown

topic: Advice, Sitting, Judgment, Daring Greatly, Sidelines

When people start hurling insults at you, you know their minds are closed and there's no point in debating. You disengage yourself as quickly as possible from the situation.

- Judith Martin

topic: People, Mind, Insult, Hurling

Publishing a book is like stuffing a note into a bottle and hurling it into the sea. Some bottles drown, some come safe to land, where the notes are read and then possibly cherished, or else misinterpreted, or else understood all too well by those who hate the message. You never know who your readers might be.

- Margaret Atwood

topic: Hate, Book, Sea, Misinterpreted, Hurling

As a rule reading fiction is as hard to me as trying to hit a target by hurling feathers at it. I need resistance to celebrate!

- William James

topic: Reading, Book, Trying, Reading Fiction, Hurling

In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries you have these great nation states hurling their young men at one another. The victory was really going to rest on who could do the best job of bringing up their kids to become efficient and effective soldiers. That's pretty grandiose, I guess, but I do think that, and thank God it's been the armies of democracy that have emerged from this as the triumphant armies.

- Stephen Ambrose

topic: Jobs, War, Kids, Hurling

The husband was a teetotaller, there was no other woman, and the conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling them at his wife.

- Arthur Conan Doyle

source: Arthur Conan Doyle, Scott McKowen (2004). “The Adventures and the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes”, p.34, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

topic: Husband, Wife, Teeth, Winding Up, Hurling

Rage - Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus' son Achilles, murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses, hurling down to the House of Death so many sturdy souls, great fighters' souls, but made their bodies carrion, feasts for the dogs and birds, and the will of Zeus was moving toward its end. Begin, Muse, when the two first broke and clashed, Agamemnon lord of men and brilliant Achilles.

- Homer

source: Homer (2002). “The Iliad”, Spark Notes

topic: Dog, Moving, Loss, Sturdy, Agamemnon

If I didn't have writing, I'd be running down the street hurling grenades in people's faces.

- Paul Fussell

topic: Running, Writing, People, Hurling

The world is MADE up of language. We can SAY that the world is composed of little demons doing calisthenics, each one the size of a pissant's eyebrow.... Or we can SAY the world is made of tiny wave mechanical packets of matter hurling through space at near the speed of light.... But notice that what we get each time are WORDS.

- Terence McKenna

topic: Eyebrows, Space, Light, Calisthenics, Hurling

I approximated the Black Friday experience at home by hurling myself into a wall a number of times and then ordering online.

- Kumail Nanjiani

topic: Thanksgiving, Friday, Wall, Black Friday, Hurling

It's not fear of striking out that makes me reluctant to step up to the plate. It's the fear of getting hit in the head by a 90 mph fastball, the pitcher coming off of the mound to stomp me with her cleats while I am down, the rest of the opposing team rushing out of the dugout hurling insults as they kick me and spit on me, while all along the crowd in the stands is cheering them on and laughing at my failure. So, no, it's not the fear of striking out that keeps me from stepping up to the plate.

- Jim Copeland

topic: Fear, Cheer, Team, Striking Out, Cleats

They charge us with anti-Semitism…The truth is, those hurling these charges harbor a 'passionate attachment' to a nation not our own that causes them to subordinate the interests of their own country and to act on an assumption that, somehow, what's good for Israel is good for America.

- Pat Buchanan

topic: Country, Israel, Attachment, Subordinates, Hurling

I would rather play with forked lightning, or take in my hand living wires with their fiery current, than to speak a reckless word against any servant of Christ, or idly repeat the slanderous darts which thousands of Christians are hurling on others, to the hurt of their own souls and bodies.

- A. B. Simpson

topic: Christian, Hurt, Hands, Darts, Hurling

We humans are obsessed with lights...Perhaps it is our way of hurling the constellations back at the sky.

- Diane Ackerman

topic: Light, Sky, Way, Hurling

One of the great things about being ignorant is that I often think my ideas are original. It's a wonderful feeling. That's why I try to avoid any knowledge that would spoil the sensation. Sometimes it isn't easy. People keep hurling knowledge at me, and I can't always duck.

- Scott Adams

topic: Knowledge, Thinking, Ideas, Being Ignorant, Hurling

Outside, you don't hear a single bird, and a deathly, oppressive silence hangs over the house and clings to me as if it were going to drag me into the deepest regions of the underworld.... I wander from room to room, climb up and down the stairs and feel like a songbird whose wings have been ripped off and who keeps hurling itself against the bars of its dark cage.

- Anne Frank

source: Anne Frank (2011). “The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition”, p.86, Bantam

topic: Dark, Wings, House, Songbirds, Hang Over

Later on, when I tried to imagine how I might have ruined things, that would occur to me - that I'd so rarely resisted, that I hadn't made it hard enough for him. Maybe it was like gathering your strength and hurling your body against a door you believe to be locked, and then the door opens easily - it wasn't locked at all - and you're standing looking into the room, trying to remember what it was you thought you wanted.

- Curtis Sittenfeld

topic: Believe, Doors, Trying, Hurling