- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fling Quotes
Short-lived moments, said in passing.
A fling can mean a brief romance or, quite literally, something thrown through space, and this collection plays with both senses of the word alongside notes on shifting attitude.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Social mores change all the time. In the mid-1970s, it would've been astonishing, say, to see two men holding hands in the streets. And the attitude to having a fling with a girl, or whatever, was quite different then.
- Grains
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bullets are fast - even a 9-millimeter handgun launches lead at Mach 1. And the bigger the bullet gets, the more grains of gunpowder it carries, the faster it goes. Modern rifles can fling the small pieces of metal at half the velocity needed to escape the gravitational pull of the Moon.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
May love's kindred treasure box fling your luminescent glove.
- Fish
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- Nov 07, 2020
A great lie is like a great fish on dry land; it may fret and fling and make a frightful bother, but it cannot hurt you. You have only to keep still, and it will die of itself.
- Proportion
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- Nov 07, 2020
We die in proportion to the words we fling around us.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
A British porch is a musty, forbidding non-room in which to fling a sodden umbrella or a muddy pair of boots; a guard against the elements and strangers. By contrast the good ol' American front porch seems to stand for positivity and openness; a platform from which to welcome or wave farewell; a place where things of significance could happen.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People get married when they're 18 and spend their whole lives together. I think their greatest fear is that someone will see it as a fling because they were young and it didn't mean anything.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020