“ When one clings to the myth of superiority, one must constantly overlook the virtues and abilities of others. ”
- Anne W. Schaef- Copy
- 3.5K
“ We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away. ”
- Chuang tzu- Copy
- 809
“ We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable. ”
- William James- Copy
- 2.6K
“ The more I like a book, the more reluctant I am to turn the page. Lovers, even book lovers, tend to cling. No one-night stands or reads for them. ”
- Anatole Broyard- Copy
- 1.2K
“ There is nothing to which men cling more tenaciously than the privileges of class. ”
- Leonard Sidney Woolf- Copy
- 3K
“ The worst thing you can do is to try to cling to something that's gone, or to recreate it. ”
- Johnette Napolitano- Copy
- 1.2K
“ The prisoner is not the one who has committed a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over. ”
- Henry Miller- Copy
- 2.7K
“ 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. ”
- Ghose Aurobindo- Copy
- 1.4K
“ Whenever words fly up at me from a printed page as I read, I intercept them instantly, knowing they are for me. I turn them over carefully in my mind and cling to them hard. ”
- David Grayson- Copy
- 1.5K
“ We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
- 551
“ Hey, we just enjoy it. I think we think we're getting the hang of this thing, you know? ”
- Keith Richards- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Continuing to cling to the patterns you know inhibits your ability to discover what you don't know. ”
- Eric Allenbaugh- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Guido clung to this thought like a drowning man clutching at a straw. He was rich and famous now, he told himself, and wasn't that what he'd always dreamed of? ”
- Michael Ende- Copy
- 3.8K
“ It's not a how-to-do-it school but more nearly a confessional in which people who have spent their lives at the writing process itemize their failures while clinging to their hopes. ”
- John Ciardi- Copy
- 1.4K
“ Don't get hung up on a snag in the stream, my dear. Snags are not so dangerous — it's the debris that clings to them that makes the trouble. Pull yourself loose and go on. ”
- Anne Shannon Monroe- Copy
- 236
“ Churchgoers are like coals in a fire. When they cling together, they keep the flame aglow; when they separate, they die out. ”
- Billy Graham- Copy
- 1.9K
“ An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft. ”
- Walter Bagehot- Copy
- 343
“ Men are clinging to football on a level we aren't even aware of. For centuries, we ruled everything, and now, in the last ten minutes, there are all these incursions by women. It's our Alamo. ”
- Tony Kornheiser- Copy
- 383
“ I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. ”
- Abraham Lincoln- Copy
- 806
“ It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart. ”
- Anne Frank- Copy
- 2.6K
“ It's wisdom to recognize necessity, when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope. ”
- J. R. R. Tolkien- Copy
- 441
“ When one has nothing left to lose one becomes courageous. We are timid only when we have something left to cling to. ”
- Don Juan Matus- Copy
- 1.6K
“ We hate the very idea that our own ideas may be mistaken, so we cling dogmatically to our conjectures. ”
- Karl Popper- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated. ”
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley- Copy
- 2.8K
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