Everything hinges on how you look at things

It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small…

— Norman Vincent Peale

There are times when we can feel destiny close around us like a fist around a doorknob. Sure, we can resist. But a knob…

— Tom Robbins

Big doors swing on small hinges.

— Vincent Archer

As part of our ongoing series of reports on the environment, 'America Goes Green,' we take on the question that can make otherwise competent…

— Brian Williams

Heaven open'd wide Her ever during gates, harmonious sound, On golden hinges moving.

— John Milton

“If people feel lost and alone and helpless and broken and hopeless today, what will it be like if the world really begins to…

— Brandon Andress

Success in business hinges mostly on the ability to get the important things done.

— William Feather

Back on its golden hinges The gate of Memory swings, And my heart goes into the garden And walks with the olden things.

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Ultimately, our lives hinge on the ability to make right choices and decisions. By God's grace, I made the most important decision a person…

— R.A. Dickey

I think [director] Malcolm Lee is a real master at being able to make you laugh while bringing serious subject-matter, so the movie doesn't…

— Ice Cube

The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside the other…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Power is the pivot on which everything hinges. He who has the power is always right; the weaker is always wrong.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“He'd pull a door off its hinges rather than work out how to turn a key.”

— Kerry Greenwood

Simplicity hinges as much on cutting nonessential features as on adding helpful ones.

— Walter Bender

Should the poor be flattered? No; let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, and crook the pregnant hinges of the knee where thrift may…

— William Shakespeare