Quotes About Clings

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.

The more illegal a profit, the more tenaciously a man clings to it.

Anyone, Eliza is thinking, who describes dying as 'slipping away' or 'peaceful' has never witnessed it happen. Death is violent, death is a struggle. The body clings to life, as ivy to a wall, and will not easily let go, will not surrender its grip without a fight.

In former days the Earl had been a man quite capable of making himself disagreeable, and probably had not yet lost the power of doing so. Of all our capabilities this is the one which clings longest to us.

In a crisis perhaps it is old clichés one clings to, like a child to a parent.

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

what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on the rock.

Alas! Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.

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

Fire has no form of its own, but clings to the burning object. Light clings to darkness. —Cogitor philosophy

My God! O let me call Thee mine! Weak, wretched sinner though I be, My trembling soul would fain be Thine, My feeble faith still clings to Thee.

Sweat and death clung to the air thick as gauze.

When an individual develops his heaven nature, he shines like the sun. Such a person keeps conscious of, and clings to, what is good and great within himself.

Gradually the magic of the island [Corfu] settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen.

Fear clings to and clutches all that we have, love gives all that we have away. Fear holds close, love holds dear. Fear grasps, love lets go. Fear rankles, love soothes. Fear attacks, love amends.

The mass," Goldman wrote bitterly, echoing Marx, "clings to its masters, loves the whip, and is the first to cry Crucify!"23

The mind is like an object that picks up dust. The object doesn't know, any more than the mind does, why what clings to it clings.

Women know no perfect love: Loving the strong, they can forsake the strong; Man clings because the being whom he loves Is weak and needs him.

Love is the essence of life; love touches all of our work. Love never leaves us. It clings to us, and we cling to it.

We all want something that sticks

Anxiety is not provoked: it tries to find a justification for itself, and in order to do so seizes upon anything, the vilest pretexts, to which it clings once it has invented them.

Mine is a true Arab love that clings and does not let go.

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.

When the inner child has been wounded through neglect of his developmental dependency needs, he either isolates and withdraws or clings and becomes enmeshed.