Cling Quotes

509 Cling quotes by 400 unique authors

I think the older you are, the more you're going to cling to the printed word as being sacred. — Buzz Bissinger
Where two or three are met together, the prayer of one strikes fire from the soul of another; and the latter in his turn leads… — James Stalker
When mortals are alive, they worry about death. When they're full, they worry about hunger. Theirs is the Great Uncertainty. But sages don't consider the… — Bodhidharma
You can live a life of either trusting your inner voice or distrusting your inner voice. You can cling to familiar expectations, conventions, and "reasonable"… — Tama J. Kieves
If you know that everything comes from the mind, don't become attached. Once attached, you're unaware. But once you see your own nature, the entire… — Bodhidharma
Cling, swing, Spring, sing, Swing up into the apple tree. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
I have always been thinking of the different ways in which Christianity is taught, and whenever I find one way that makes it a wider… — George Eliot
Conservatism is sometimes a symptom of sterility. Those who have nothing in them that can grow and develop must cling to what they have in… — Eric Hoffer
But the thing that stands eternally in the way of really good writing is always one: the virtual impossibility of lifting to the imagination those… — William Carlos Williams
This is a world in which each of us, knowing his limitations, knowing the evils of superficiality and the terrors of fatigue, will have to… — J. Robert Oppenheimer
People who have few possessions cling tightly to those they have. That is one of the facts that make life so discouraging. — Sherwood Anderson
There is always new life trying to emerge in each of us. Too often we ignore the signs of resurrection and cling to part of… — Joan D. Chittister
I cling to nowhere until I fall - the crash of Nothing... — Emily Dickinson
The past is our only real possession in life. It is the one piece of property of which time cannot deprive us; it is our… — Grace King
Like a candle in the wind, never knowing who to cling to until the rain set it. — Elton John
It is essential to grasp the incontestable truth that a Marxist must take cognisance of real life, of the true facts of reality, and not… — Vladimir Lenin
Dust as we are, the immortal spirit grows Like harmony in music; there is a dark Inscrutable workmanship that reconciles Discordant elements, makes them cling… — William Wordsworth
There is that might-have-been which is the single rock we cling to above the maelstrom of unbearable reality. — William Faulkner
You can order yourself to treasure a moment, to cling tight to a feeling and never let it fade, but it's your brain, that three-pound… — Isaac Marion
The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and… — Allen Ginsberg
Rescue someone unwilling to look after himself, and he will cling to you like a dangerous illness. — Mason Cooley
We Hoosiers hold to some quaint notions. Some might say we 'cling' to them, though not out of fear or ignorance. We believe in paying… — Mitch Daniels
The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for… — Daniel Dennett
We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable. — William James
But I still read Shaw on a regular basis. What I love is the nakedness of the polemic and the irresistible good humour. For me,… — Tony Kushner

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