Sean Óg ó Hailpín. . . . his father's from Fermanagh, his mother's from Fiji, neither a hurling stronghold.
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.
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.
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.
I can hardly forbear hurling things at him.
In biblical times, I stoned people to death. Now they are repaying me by hurling pucks at my head.
An individual dies. . . when, instead of taking risks and hurling himself toward being, he cowers within, and takes refuge there.
If I didn't have writing, I'd be running down the street hurling grenades in people's faces.
and she had succeeded, on the second try, in hurling herself out of the world
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.
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. "
