Clinging Quotes

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?
Buddha

Woman, Person, Between

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
Michel de Montaigne

Best, Stupidity, Opinion

Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.
P. J. O'Rourke

Love, Family, Bad

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.
Alan Watts

Faith, Attitude, Belief

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

Religion, Happy, Guns

The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.
Clarence Darrow

Best, Friends, Same

We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.
T. D. Jakes

God, Past, Busy

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.
Charles Morgan

Change, Happiness, Art

People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants.
Bela Lugosi

Live, Afraid, Monotony

Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still.
Nancy Friday

Mother, Negative, Her

Some people get into this business and they're so afraid to lose anything. They try to protect their position like clinging to a beachhead. These actors end up making really safe choices. I never wanted to go that route. If I go down, I'm going down swinging.
Matt Damon

Business, End, Down

There are still things I want to do but they're not necessary for me to do. I'm not clinging to anything that I can't open my hands and let go.
Morris West

Open, Hands, Necessary

Excuse me if I'm clinging on to life, but my parents wove me from tight thread.
Jeanne Calment

Life, Parents, Excuse

I believe all religions are becoming obsolete, clinging to ancient concepts.
John Templeton

Becoming, Religions, Ancient

I don't know if it's that my own childhood felt brief, or I grew up too fast, or I was pushing myself too much at a young age, but I do feel like I am clinging to a certain childlike quality in myself, as a result of a childhood that was sometimes complicated.
Shawn Levy

Age, Young, Sometimes

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