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A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism.
— Salvatore Quasimodo
Love finds you in the strangest places, and hope clings to us in the nooks and crannies we never think to look.
— Shelly Crane
The more illegal a profit, the more tenaciously a man clings to it.
— Honore De Balzac
Love has earth to which she clings ...
— Robert Frost
what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on the rock.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Praise follows truth afar off, and only overtakes her at the grave; plausibility clings to her skirts and holds her back till then
— James Russell Lowell
You can hate a person with your whole body, but love is a stubborn thing, it clings on in your heart.
— Anna Maxted
Nobody can fight properly and boldly for the faith if he clings to a fear of being stripped of earthly possessions.
— Peter Damian
Anxiety is unable to relax in the face of chaos; continuous prayer clings to the Father in the face of chaos.
— Paul E. Miller
Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
But who knows why a man, though suffering, clings, above all the other well members, to the arm or leg which he knows must come off?
— William Faulkner
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
Nothing is infinitely reducible. You can split an atom but you can't vaporize it. Stuff sticks around. It clings to you, even when it's broken.
— Lauren Beukes
A foolish man clings to wrong views, mocks the teaching of the righteous, and invites ruin and destruction.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
The smell of subjectivity clings to the mechanical definition of complexity as stubbornly as it sticks to the definition of information.
— Hans Christian Von Baeyer
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
man clings to the mother-hand of the past, till he can think and act alone.
— Henry Harrison Brown
The heart that serves, and loves, and clings, Hears everywhere the rush of angel wings.
— Lettie B. Cowman
Youth demands more than ordinary life. Age clings to it.
— Mason Cooley
My father once told me that I have a mind like a lint trap - I pull stuff out of everything, and a lot of it just clings.
— Ellen Klages
Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God, your functional savior.
— Martin Luther
It's pitch, sex is. Once you touch it, it clings to you.
— Margery Allingham
We cling to our last pleasures as the tree clings to its last leaves.
— Katherine Mansfield
Belief clings, but faith lets go.
— Alan W. Watts
A mind may know a thing, the spirit may embrace it, but the voice that chatters in the head clings ever to shameful beliefs.
— Ki Longfellow
Forgiveness is the frangrance of the violet which still clings fast to the heel that crushed it.
— Shay Savage
There is an old Chinese proverb: 'A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses.
— Ashwin Sanghi
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 — Mary Shelley
A long past vividly remembered is like a heavy garment that clings to your limbs when you would run.
— Mary Antin
I put on embarrassment in the same way I put on Liliya's dress. It clings to my skin.
— Sharon Cameron
Every society clings to a myth by which it lives. Ours is the myth of economic growth.
— Tim Jackson
A man can safely sacrifice a great deal as long as he clings to the essential.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
As long as the mind clings to belief, it is held in a prison.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
People were drawn to her the way a moth clings to a porch light, and I was the most hypnotized of all.
— Brielle A. Marino
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.
— Emmanuelle Riva
Nothing in the whole world is so athirst for beauty as the soul, nor is there anything to which beauty clings so readily.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
I cannot fail these girls by diverting my eyes from the invisible residue of slavery that clings to them like a shadow.
— Marquita Burke-DeJesus
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
Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.
— Mary Shelley
Loyalty is not loyalty unless one clings to it in the face of adversity. No?
— Lisa Tawn Bergren
I am a small-government conservative who clings tenaciously and old-fashionedly to the idea that one ought to have balanced budgets.
— Christopher Buckley
water clings to my wrists. it has been my fragrance since birth.
— Nayyirah Waheed
The human heart clings - even to its pain.
— Marie Dressler
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
— Gustave Flaubert
How stubborn life is,It clings like silver in our souls. — Scott Hastie
The sweet smell of the South, of Camellias and Azaleas, clings to Beaufort's ancient and historic buildings.
— Walter Cronkite
Yet, in the maddening maze of things, And tossed by storm and flood, To one fixed trust my spirit clings; I know that God is good!
— John Greenleaf Whittier
A hoodie is worn by everybody: kids, white men, white women, black men. But it clings to the black body as a sign of criminality like nothing else.
— Claudia Rankine
The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.
— Henry Miller
