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Hinges Quotes

Power is the pivot on which everything hinges. He who has the power is always right; the weaker is always wrong.

Power is the pivot on which everything hinges. He who has the power is always right; the weaker is always wrong.

Niccolo Machiavelli
Always Wrong, Hinges

Everything hinges on how you look at things

Henry Miller
Looks, Hinges

How silently the heart pivots on its hinge.

Jane Hirshfield
Heart, Hinges
Jane Hirshfield (1997). “The lives of the heart”, Perennial

There are no little things. "Little things," so called, are the hinges of the universe.

Fanny Fern
Littles, Little Things, Hinges
"Ruth Hall and Other Writings".

Method is the very hinge of business, and there is no method without punctuality.

Richard Cecil
Punctuality, Method, Hinges
Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt (1825). “The Works of Richard Cecil: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.373

& these haters try to knock me but they can't knock me off the hinges.

Lil Wayne
Hate, Trying, Hinges
Song: Bitches Love Me, 2013

Its the hinge that squeaks that gets the grease

Malcolm X
Grease, Hinges
Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.396, Ballantine Books

I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on.

Rita Dove
Intimate Moments, Details, Hinges

...our happiness hinges not on good luck; it hinges on peace of heart.

David Steindl-Rast
Heart, Good Luck, Hinges
David Steindl-Rast (1983). “A listening heart: the art of contemplative living”, Crossroad Pub Co

He didn't try to take the net off its hinges with that header.

Andy Townsend
Football, Trying, Hinges

The world is seldom so simple that it hinges on us alone.

Rachel Hartman
Simple, World, Hinges

The groundsell speakes not save what it heard at the hinges.

George Herbert
Heard, Hinges
George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.329

[Cole Porter] sang like a hinge.

Ethel Merman
Art, Entertainment, Hinges

Noon - is the Hinge of Day-.

Emily Dickinson
Noon, Hinges
Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1205, Delphi Classics

I couldn't bear a marriage in which one partner hinges on the other.

Clive Owen
Bears, Partners, Hinges

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