Cling Quotes

509 Cling quotes by 400 unique authors

It is women who love horror. Gloat over it. Feed on it. Are nourished by it. Shudder and cling and cry out-and come back for… — Bela Lugosi
We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains. — Anne Sullivan Macy
Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling. — Yann Martel
Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other but does not create true… — Henri Nouwen
The resistance to praying is like the resistance of tightly clenched fists. This image shows a tension, a desire to cling tightly to yourself, a… — Henri Nouwen
When we have nothing to cling to as our own and cease thinking of ourselves as people who must defend privileges, we can open ourselves… — Henri Nouwen
It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or… — Barack Obama
I happily cling to my guns and my God, even if President Obama thinks that that is a simpleminded thing in his elitist heart. — Rick Perry
And yet, there are still people in American politics who, for some reason, cling to this belief that America is better off adopting the economic… — Marco Rubio
Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not… — George Sand
I love it when the left and when the president say, 'Don't try to impose your values on us, you folks who hold your Bibles… — Rick Santorum
I am a regular, if not exactly enthusiastic, patron of my local bookshop. I try to buy at least some books there because I cling… — Will Self
The most effective leaders are actually better at guarding against danger when they acknowledge it that it exists. Cowards, in contrast, cling to the hope… — Simon Sinek
The world has changed and it's going to keep changing, but God never changes; so we are safe when we cling to Him. — Charles R. Swindoll
Taking one’s chances is like taking a bath, because sometimes you end up feeling comfortable and warm, and sometimes there is something terrible lurking around… — Daniel Handler
Drowning men, it is said, cling to wisps of straw. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
[Words] cling to the very core of our memories and lie there in silence until a new desire reawakens them and recharges them with loving… — Laura Esquivel
Change isn't easy... changing the way you live means changing what you believe about life. That's hard... When we make our own misery, we sometimes… — Dean Koontz
Don't cling to things because everything is impermanent. — Mitch Albom
They are Man's and they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance and this girl is Want. Beware them both, and… — Charles Dickens
If you take a book with you on a journey," Mo had said when he put the first one in her box, "an odd thing… — Cornelia Funke
a fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he's already got. He'll cling to trouble… — William Faulkner
I think joy and sweetness and affection are a spiritual path. We're here to know God, to love and serve God, and to be blown… — Anne Lamott
Having been borne across the world, we are translated men. It is normally supposed that something always gets lost in translation; I cling, obstinately, to… — Salman Rushdie
No one who has studied Western history can cling to the belief that the Nazis invented genocide. — Wallace Stegner

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