Clings Quotes

117 quotes by 105 authors

Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere. — Thomas Carlyle
Sweet, can I sing you the song of your kisses? How soft is this one, how subtle this is, How fluttering swift as a bird's… — Arthur Symons
No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings - the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By… — Lucretius
Grief allows you to let go of something you have lost only when you begin to accept what you now have in its place. As… — Daniel J. Siegel
The more illegal a profit, the more tenaciously a man clings to it. — Honore de Balzac
The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation. — Sri Aurobindo
You are good when you strive to give of yourself. Yet you are not evil when you seek gain for yourself. For when you strive… — Khalil Gibran
One correspondent, who is into psychology, notes that in his experience people who are hoplophobes are nearly always nutty in other ways, too. Hoplophobia [fear… — Jeff Cooper
Don't get hung up on a snag in the stream, my dear. Snags alone are not so dangerous-it's the debris that clings to them that… — Anne Monroe
In the sheltered heart of the clumps last year's foliage still clings to the lower branches, tatters of orange that mutter with the passage of… — Jacquetta Hawkes
It has been said that the immortality of the soul is a grand peut-tre -but still it is a grand one. Everybody clings to it… — Lord Byron
This deep agnosticism is more than the refusal of conventional agnosticism to take a stand on whether God exists or whether the mind survives bodily… — Stephen Batchelor
The darkness which clings to every personality is the door into the unconscious and the gateway of dreams, from which those two twilight figures, the… — Carl Jung
Anyone who clings to the historically untrue-and thoroughly immoral-doctrine that, 'violence never settles anything' I would advise to conjure the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and… — Robert A. Heinlein
I ask but one thing of you, only one, That always you will be my dream of you; That never shall I wake to find… — Amy Lowell
The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European… — Anthony Burgess
Monks, when ignorance is abandoned, and knowledge arises in the monk, with the ending of ignorance and the arising of knowledge he clings neither to… — Gautama Buddha
Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a polluted mind, suffering will follow… — Gautama Buddha
I am as wrapped up in her as a vine that clings to a tree seeking for sustenance. She's tied me to her for eternity.… — Colleen Houck
The life of faith is not the perfect life; it is the life which clings on to what God has said he will do. — Timothy Keller

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