Hanging On Quotes

Behold the crucifix; what does it symbolize? Pallid incompetence hanging on a tree.

Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.

The memory fades, and I’m left hanging on to the ghosts of his words.

God's plan makes you sing about resurrection when your hanging on a cross.

At times it seemed unfair that I should be paid for my work; for driving out in the early morning with the fields glittering under the first pale sunshine and the wisps of mist still hanging on the high tops.

Quit hanging on to the handrails . . . Let go. Surrender. Go for the ride of your life. Do it every day.

Life is a rollercoaster ride and I don't intend on being the one screaming and hanging on for dear life.

When you're scared, when you're hanging on, when life is hurting you, then you're going to see what you're really made of.

Change is the only constant. Hanging on is the only sin.

Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way.

Man is a natural polygamist: he always has one woman leading him by the nose, and another hanging on to his coattails.

Grind it out. Hanging on just one second longer than your competition makes you the winner.

The taste for pleasure attaches us to the present. The concern with our salvation leaves us hanging on the future.

Pushing forty? She's hanging on for dear life.

Now I'm a blithering oaf hanging on to the coatsleeves of commerciality.

When you launch in a rocket, you're not really flying that rocket. You're just sort of hanging on.

When you're scared, you're still hanging on to life. When you're ready to die, you let it go. A sort of emptying out occurs, a giving up on the world that seems oddly familiar even if you've never done it before.

We've never managed, either one of us, to get all the way into life. We're hanging on to the outside for all we're worth, convinced we're going to fall off at the next bump.

Well, it's not just money. I consider myself establishment right now. I'm borderline establishment, I'm hanging on by my toenails - but I'm establishment.

I've been scared and I've liked not hanging on to stuff where I know that I'm in my comfort zone.

My guitars, Cadillacs, and hillbilly music Is the only thing that keeps me hanging on.

The student ends up lusting after time with the teacher, hanging on her every word, and forgetting that this is about him or her, the student, not the teacher.

Always leave a sinking ship. There's no virtue in hanging on to losers. And stocks don't have feelings.

Don't settle for comfortable misery, a sad state where you're hanging on to what is most predictable and familiar at the risk of letting exciting opportunities pass you by.

I couldn't stand here, hanging on, when the very thing I held disappeared more with each passing day.