Quotes of: Cling Keyword

Expansion. That is the idea the novelist must cling to. Not completion. Not rounding off, but opening out.

Aspects of the Novel

It’s December in Florida, and there are still a few leaves clinging on the branches for dear summer.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Humans tend to cling on to a picture that was painted in front of their eyes, instead of opening up their mind to the painting that was already there...

Lionel Suggs

One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next time his film will somehow bear a closer resemblance to it.

Galen Rowell

We need the compassion and the courage to change the conditions that support our suffering. Those conditions are things like ignorance, bitterness, negligence, clinging, and holding on.

Sharon Salzberg

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

Why does everyone cling to the masculine imagery and pronouns even though they are a mere linguistic device that has never meant that God is male?

Carol P. Christ

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

Occasional soreness upon my heart. I am sure it is the past that clings like a needy child.

Evelyn Leilou Colon

Dream chasers are full of strength, are full of desire, are passionate and they cling unto their dreams until they produce life.

Euginia Herlihy

When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous. We are timid only when there is something we can still cling to.

Don Juan

Words contract a significance which clings to them long after the condition of things to which they owe it has passed away.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

Louis: [clinging to the automobile in the chase sequence] I'd really prefer to be in the car, Mother!

Castle in the Sky

Hey, I'm a Catholic deer hunter, I am happy to be clinging to my guns and my religion.

Paul Ryan

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 yet be fully alive.

Allen Ginsberg

So too, friend, purification of virtue is for the sake of reaching purification of mind; purification of mind is for the sake of reaching purification of view; purification of view is for the sake of reaching purification by overcoming doubt; purific...

The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Majjhima Nikaya

We cling to the comfortable rather than step out into the possible.

Cravings: A Catholic Wrestles with Food, Self-Image, and God

Her metaphors for her children included barnacles encrusting a ship and limpets clinging to a rock.

The Edible Woman

Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to a mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on a rock." - Frankenstein p115

Frankenstein

It is not the outer objects that entangle us. It is the inner clinging that entangles us." - Tilopa

Awakening the Buddha Within: Tibetan Wisdom for the Western World

It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, 'We are born alone. We live alone. We die alone. And anything in between that can give us the illusion that we're not, we cling to.'

Gabriel Byrne