Best Clinging Thoughts
210 Clinging quotes by 158 unique authors
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I was clinging to all that had been and, in an ideal world, all that we had hoped for. He, he wanted out.
— Freya North
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Pain is the only reward for clinging to impossible dreams." (Harry Braxton)
— Connie Brockway
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All this time…ever since I sold my soul, I’ve been clinging to this idea that there is something pure and decent out there. That there…
— Richelle Mead
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The wonder is that so many OCDs manage to live productive lives, just the same. They work, they eat (often not enough or too much,…
— Stephen King
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The shadow had followed behind them, clinging to their steps; and the two children little suspected its presence when they at last sat down, trustingly,…
— Gaston Leroux
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The truth is we never stop being children, terrible children covered in sores and knotty veins and tumors and age spots, but ultimately children, in…
— Roberto Bolano
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Nobody dares to solve the problems-because the solution might contradict your philosophy, and for most people clinging to beliefs is more important than succeeding in…
— Michael Crichton
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...no man can cause more grief than the one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancesters.
— William Faulkner
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There are new gods growing in America, clinging to growing knots of belief: gods of credit card and freeway, of Internet and telephone, of radio…
— Neil Gaiman
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Normal. She wasn't normal. A girl Graced with killing, a royal thug? A girl who didn't want the husbands Randa pushed on her, perfectly handsome…
— Kristin Cashore
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Clinging to any form of conservatism can be dangerous. Become too conservative and you are unprepared for surprises. You cannot depend on luck. Logic is…
— Frank Herbert
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He tasted deeper, holding himself over me, and suddenly he was everywhere; his knee trapping my leg, his lips grazing warm, rough, sensuous. He splayed…
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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The knowledge of the past stays with us. To let go is to release the images and emotions, the grudges and fears, the clingings and…
— Jack Kornfield
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Elizabeth studied the blurry tabloid photo, which showed her cousin Mary Stuart leaving a Paris disco at dawn, drunkenly clinging to the arm of a…
— Barbara Taylor Bradford
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If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.
— Alan Watts
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And suddenly, it's as if there's no one in the world but these two, crashing through space to reach each other. They collide, enfold, lose…
— Suzanne Collins
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The heat of the bread burned into my skin, but I clutched it tighter, clinging to life.
— Suzanne Collins
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As we walk our individual life journeys, we pick up resentments and hurts, which attach themselves to our souls like burrs clinging to a hiker's…
— Richard Paul Evans
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She felt as if the world were tilting and she was clinging on helplessly, trying to keep from tumbling into a black abyss.
— Cassandra Clare
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Say a word, say a thousand to me on the telephone and I shall choose the wrong one to cling to as though you had…
— William Gaddis
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People sometimes accuse me of knowing a lot. "Stephen," they say, accusingly, "you know a lot." This is a bit like telling a person who…
— Stephen Fry
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When you were straight, evil thoughts and memories came pouring up out of the darkness inside you; buzzing black flies clinging to the insides of…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Can we just do this?” Ray asked tightly, clinging to Zheng’s already slightly elongated arm. Because Louis-Cesare wasn’t the only one with a master power…
— Karen Chance
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I tilted my chin up a fraction. "You can't f-force me to stay here." I'd only agreed to come this far because I didn't want…
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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When I sleepwalk into your room, and pick you up, and hold you up in the moonlight, you cling to me hard, as if clinging…
— Galway Kinnell
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