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  • 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.

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

    Mother   Father   Fiji  
  • There are some things in life that are worth fighting for to the end.

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

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

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

  • 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.

  • This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.

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

  • 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.

    Reality   Want   Hurling  
  • and she had succeeded, on the second try, in hurling herself out of the world

    Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.28, Macmillan
  • 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.

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

    Dog   Father   Race  
  • 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.

    Book   Reading   Savages  
  • Hurling looks a bit like a cross between lacrosse and second degree murder.

  • 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.

    "Stealing Life" by Margaret Talbot, www.newyorker.com. October 22, 2007.
  • Time is the warp and matter the weft of the woven texture of beauty in space, and death is the hurling shuttle.

    Space   Woven   Texture  
  • 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.

    Care   Cliffs   Bigger  
    "Where'd You Go, Bernadette". Book by Maria Semple, www.npr.org. 2012.
  • 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.

    People   Mind   Insult  
  • 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.

    Eyebrows   Space   Light  
  • Life isn't all beer and skittles.

    Life   Beer   Skittles  
    Tom Brown's Schooldays pt. 1, ch. 2 (1857)
  • ...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.

  • 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.

    Believe   Doors   Trying  
    Curtis Sittenfeld (2005). “Prep: a novel”
  • 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.

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

  • 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.

    Art   Work   Dedication  
  • 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.

    Real   War   Moving  
    Peter David (2008). “Tigerheart”, p.85, Del Rey
  • 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.

    Mother   Tired   Vampire  
    Jeaniene Frost (2010). “At Grave's End: A Night Huntress Novel”, p.46, Hachette UK
  • 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.

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

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