Quotes about Hang on

Easier to climb up, than to just hang on. Votes: 5

All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings. Votes: 5

We weren't here to hope and hang on. We wanted to win. Votes: 5

A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer. Votes: 5

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love. Votes: 5

Sell the public flowers... things that they can hang on their walls without being uptight. Votes: 5

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on. Votes: 5

People should be shrouded in mystery. Especially actors. No, hang on, maybe actors should be blown up. Votes: 5

Then no matter what goes on around you in the physical universe, hang on to what you know. Votes: 5

If people take an interest in you and they think there's half a chance, they might hang on. It's dreadful. Votes: 5

The sun doesn't just hang on one family's tree Votes: 4

Some leaves hang on longer but eventually they all fall. Votes: 4

In the midst of the turbulence, we hang onto hope. Votes: 4

What do you hang on the walls of your mind? Votes: 4

How is it that the clouds still hang on you? Votes: 4

The way companies hang on to their marketshare is by being scared. Votes: 4

Let go of the anger, hang on to the good lessons. Votes: 3

It is very difficult to hang onto the relics of history. Votes: 3

Happiness is when you fight for souls that barely hang on. Votes: 3

The only question now is: How much can I hang on to? Votes: 3

No matter how tough the situation, you still have to hang on. Votes: 3

Dark clouds may hang on me sometimes, but I'll work it out... Votes: 3

I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind. Votes: 3

You want something, you go after it, and you hang on to it Votes: 3

For fate may hang on any moment and at any moment be changed. Votes: 3

The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all. Votes: 3

Whate'er the talents, or howe'er designed, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind. Votes: 3

Tomes of aesthetic criticism hang on a few moments of real delight and intuition. Votes: 3

Free, only want to be free, we huddle close, hang on to a dream.... Votes: 3

Whatever we can’t hold, we hang on a hook that will hold it. Votes: 3

All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with a sudden crash. Votes: 3

I realise the power of art that does not hang on the walls of galleries. Votes: 3

They're called poems but in reality they're lines given to me to hang on to Votes: 3

Be persistent, and hang on to your vision. And at the same time, be flexible. Votes: 3

When you get to the end of your rope. Tie a knot and hang on. Votes: 3

There are times when you simply have to righteous hang on and outlast the devil. Votes: 3

I only felt a cold wind blow while I tried to hang on to the past. Votes: 3

To avoid taking responsibility, I become unresponsive but hang on until the other person leaves me. Votes: 3

A good special education teacher is hard to find and even harder to hang on to. Votes: 3

I know for certain that miracles happen, but only for those who hang on to hope. Votes: 3

I never plan anything-life is a roller coaster ride - I just hang on for dear life. Votes: 3

She knows how to hang on to my money. I wish her mom were the same way. Votes: 3

Songs are like ropes that you can kind of hang on to or pull yourself up on. Votes: 3

Dreams, ideas, and plans not only are an escape, they give me purpose, a reason to hang on. Votes: 3

The slogans hang on and press on have solved and will continue to solve the problems of humanity. Votes: 3

Art shouldn't be only the aesthetics we hang on the wall, but a dynamic to shape the society. Votes: 3

You can always tell a novice rider; they aren't comfortable in the saddle and have to hang on. Votes: 3

It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go. Votes: 3

I have four kids, seven grandkids, and four great-grandkids. Maybe I can become a great-great-grandfather if I hang on! Votes: 3

You've got to hang on to who you are, what you are. Don't let anyone take it from you. Votes: 3

We're living in a new Beat time, in my view. And it's very difficult for us to hang on. Votes: 3

I'm a bit of a hoarder, so I did tend to buy things and just hang on to them. Votes: 3

You know journalists. You know the media. They are going to hang on to anything negative they possibly can. Votes: 3

Don't hang on to your failures, because you can always try again. Trying gives hope. Hope gives us life. Votes: 3

Capitalism gives all of us a great opportunity if we seize it with both hands and hang on to it. Votes: 3

It's an inside job to learn about forgiving, it's an inside job to hang on to the joy of living. Votes: 3

But you have to figure that if it’s too hard to hang on, then maybe you should let go. Votes: 3

I was always a bit different. I had a very happy childhood, but I could never hang on to mates. Votes: 3

Let us keep to Christ, and cling to Him, and hang on Him, so that no power can remove us. Votes: 3

I smoke cigars because at my age if I don't have something to hang on to I might fall down. Votes: 3

here's a payoff for everyone. The reason we hang on to self-defeating behaviors is because it's easier not to take responsibility. Votes: 3

When we hang on to resentments, we poison ourselves. As compulsive overeaters, we cannot afford resentment, since it exacerbates our disease. Votes: 3

In Hollywood, if you have any success, you have this fear: What do you have to do to hang onto it? Votes: 3

A Dauntless Ferris wheel wouldn't have cars. You would just hang on tight with your hands, and good luck to you. Votes: 3

Proper treatment will cure a cold in seven days, but left to itself, a cold will hang on for a week. Votes: 3

I live in a small apartment. There's only so much Batman memorabilia a guy can hang on to in New York City. Votes: 3

The dress must not hang on the body but follow its lines. When a woman smiles the dress must smile with her. Votes: 3

I have thought for a long time that the way my clothes hang on me is more important than me inside them. Votes: 3

We have a problem with any labels that people try to hang on us, because all it does is drag you down. Votes: 3

Eternal rest sounds comforting in the pulpit; well, you try it once, and see how heavy time will hang on your hands. Votes: 3

People say you have to work on your resentments. Yeah, no, I'm gonna hang onto them and they're gonna fuel my attack. Votes: 3

If I was going to fall, I would hang on to my small comforts, at least, for as long as I possibly could. Votes: 3

You are truly successful when you can extend a strong hand to someone who is reaching out or just trying to hang on. Votes: 3

The bad news is you're falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, there's no ground. Votes: 3

I know you're supposed to be thick-skinned in this business, but I'm not. I kind of like to hang on to being vulnerable. Votes: 3

Most individuals work much harder to hang on to what they have than to take the necessary risk to shoot for their dreams. Votes: 3

Starting a business is like riding a wave between life and death. If you can hang on long enough, you're bound to succeed Votes: 3

Women hang onto the romanticism of a relationship. But a man compartmentalises it into the past and then gets on with his new life. Votes: 3

I don’t want to hang on and Cry over something so little, Like a springtime illusion that’ll disappear after I wake up Votes: 3

Love, it never dies. It never goes away, it never fades, so long as you hang on to it. Love can make you immortal Votes: 3

Life is full of highs and lows. We need them both to grow to our fullest potential. Just hang on tight & enjoy the ride. Votes: 3

It was a maddening image and the only way to whip it was to hang on until dusk and banish the ghosts with rum. Votes: 3

One plays at being immortal and after a few weeks one doesn't even know whether or not one can hang on till the next day. Votes: 3

The biggest fashion mistake people make is they try to hang on to their youth. Embrace who you are now-your body, your lifestyle, your coloring. Votes: 3

In the struggle for existence, it is only on those who hang on for ten minutes after all is hopeless, that hope begins to dawn. Votes: 3

When you know your name, you should hang on to it, for unless it is noted down and remembered, it will die when you do. Votes: 3

Naturally, there's got to be a limit for I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible. Votes: 3

I do hang on to things. I was so happy my father saved his army jacket. I grew up wearing that all through high school. Votes: 3

Looking to Donald Trump`s immigration speech can he hang onto his base if he softens his stance on the issue that got him this far? Votes: 3

There's nothing the world loves more than a ready-made description which they can hang on to a man, and so save themselves all trouble in future. Votes: 3

We must hang on to the idea that we can actually change things. That's the sort of environment that Joe finds himself in, in Young Adam. Votes: 3

I would say that my parents were intermittently proud of me. They couldn't hang onto it, you know? It would come and go, like the flu. Votes: 3

If you try desperately to hang on to something that used to be a success for you, it's going to go away. You have to change. Votes: 3

God is a wild man...should you encounter him...hang on for dear life-or let go for dear life is a better way to say it. Votes: 3

God has promised to every single one of us that even in our hardest times, if we would just hang on long enough, the blessing will come. Votes: 3

I'm a 'Power of Now' kind of guy, always have been. I don't really hang on to a lot of pictures. I have pictures of my daughters. Votes: 3

Any girl who was a lady would not even think of having such a good time that she did not remember to hang on to her jewelry. Votes: 3

You have to hang on in periods when your style isn't popular, because if it's good, it'll come back, and you'll be a recognized beauty once again. Votes: 3

I try to hang on to as much mystery as possible. How can we go through our lives not wanting to have any element of surprise?’ Votes: 3

I suppose there are a lot of reasons to be jaded or sarcastic or bitter in life, but I hang on to the reasons why life is beautiful. Votes: 3

It was like reaching for someone's hand, then missing their fingers, or even their arm, and hitting their shoulder instead. But no matter. You hang on tight anyway. Votes: 3

But I hang on to books. I love them. I even think they're very nice decor in a room - far better than paintings... That's not quite true! Votes: 3

We are nothing but ceremony; ceremony carries us away, and we leave the substance of things; we hang on to the branches and abandon the trunk and body. Votes: 3

Being able to laugh at a situation can help you hang on to your perspective. And there's an intimacy in laughter that nothing else can come close to. Votes: 3

When things get dark, they're going to get darker, and at that very moment, that's when you hang on that much tighter because that's when salvation and light come. Votes: 3

There is a call to spiritual perseverance. A call not to hang on and do nothing, but to work deliberately, knowing with certainty that God will never be defeated. Votes: 3

Life and business are rather simple after all-to make a success of either, you've got to hang on to the knack of putting yourself into the other person's place. Votes: 3

Eventually, all mentor-disciple relationships are meant to pull apart, usually sometime in the mid-30s. Those who hang on, eventually the mentor drops the disciple, and that's no fun. Votes: 3

Relationships are kind of like riding a bull. You hang on for dear life and sometimes you get a little buck here and there ... but you get back on. Votes: 3

Jesus came to give us life. We don't have to hang on a cross like he did. For him, it was a sacrifice. For us, it is a gift. Votes: 3

Like the actor, authority has faith in its false whiskers. But its deepest faith is in the human illusion. People will hang on to illusion as eagerly as life itself. Votes: 3

Women should know that they don't have to hang on to an old dream that has stopped nurturing them - that there is always time to start a new dream. Votes: 3

There are two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone who won't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go? Votes: 3

I could always flip between emotions and be available to suddenly do something new. I think it's a part of playing, and you hang onto it when you're a kid. Votes: 3

Law Number XXIX: Executives who do not produce successful results hold on to their jobs only about five years. Those who produce effective results hang on about half a decade. Votes: 3

You have to take pains in a memoir not to hang on the reader's arm, like a drunk, and say, 'And then I did this and it was so interesting. Votes: 3

I have heard it said that winter, too, will pass, that spring is a sign that summer is due at last. See, all we have to do is hang on. Votes: 3

We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends. Votes: 3

What you don't want to do is to hang on to the aging superstar past his prime and take resources away you can otherwise use to build a better overall team. Votes: 3

There's this idea that there was a point in our childhood when we were in some way better than we are now and we should try to hang on to that. Votes: 3

A dangerous book will always be in danger from those it threatens with the demand that they question their assumptions. They'd rather hang on to the assumptions and ban the book. Votes: 3

Along with rising and falling water, winter is the province of wind. When the sea-breath and mountain-roar bend the hemlocks of these hills, the birds hang on as best they can. Votes: 3

He helps me every day to do my exercises. Siegfried told me once, 'The one who is a hero is the one who can hang on just one minute longer.' Votes: 3

I am one of those irritating people, who hang on to the door-knob after they say good-bye, and will neither come back nor go, always remembering something else which must be said ... Votes: 3

Faith does not change my circumstances; faith changes me. Faith may not bring in the tuition check when I need it, but faith will give me what it takes to hang on. Votes: 3

For the young people here: practicality is a good thing. There are times where compromise is necessary. That's part of wisdom. But it's also important to hang on to what you believe. Votes: 3

Being an actor is really odd. So, don't take that as your reality - take your family, take your friends, take your relationships - that's your reality. And hang on to them. Votes: 3

The gesture must be correct. If the gesture is correct, your mind really creates the reality of the figure, and it is not necessary to hang on all the rest [of the details]... Votes: 3

We have all sinned and fall short of the glory of God. So when we are in the mess, remember Jesus made it right. We got to hang on to that by faith. Votes: 3

But grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you get is stamina and poignancy and the strength to hang on. Votes: 3

It just seems that if you hang on for a while longer, there is always something bright around the corner, or the dark clouds will go away and there will be sunshine again. Votes: 3

Forgiveness means that you fill yourself with love and you radiate that love outward and refuse to hang onto the venom or hatred that was engendered by the behaviors that caused the wounds. Votes: 3

Also, I do not like the companionship of women. They are petty and personal. They hang on to their mysteries and secrets, they act and pretend. I like the character of men better. Votes: 3

It's not always easy to do what's not popular, but that's where you make your money. Buy stocks that look bad to less careful investors and hang on until their real value is recognized. Votes: 3

A person that doesn't know their worth will never know yours. Therefore, the longer you hang onto hope that they will finally see your worth is the moment you start to depreciate in value. Votes: 3

Time changes everything, but with patience we can keep our desires relatively constant. If we can just hang on long enough, time will eventually create for us the conditions in which we can succeed. Votes: 3

Senate races have tightened along with the presidential race. Watch to see how many Republican Senate candidates outperform Donald Trump - and how many hang on to their seats in states that he loses. Votes: 3

It's really clear to me that you can't hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas. Votes: 3

Even if your family isn't quite there for you, find the people that support you and hang on to those people and try to let go of those that try to take you down. Votes: 3

When you go to an audition, don't hang on to it because no matter how well you feel it went or how badly, you just never know what the outcome is going to be. Votes: 3

And that's just it, isn't it? That's how we manage to survive the loss. Because love, it never dies, it never goes away, it never fades, so long as you hang on to it. Votes: 3

As a bandleader, I try to pass on the same family values that I grew up with: help people, hang on to your sense of humour, be tolerant, and keep your judgments to yourself. Votes: 3

I never feel like I have to hang on to the music. I don't expect that the music will go away. Ideas are the only thing I can point to that are permanent and fixed. Votes: 3

Happiness does not await us all. One needn't be a prophet to say that there will be more grief and pain than serenity and money. That is why we must hang on to one another. Votes: 3

Young people need something stable to hang on to - a culture connection, a sense of their own past, a hope for their own future. Most of all, they need what grandparents can give them. Votes: 3

By choosing to hang on to your corner of freedom in even the worst situations, you can process your world with the energy of appreciation and beauty, and create an opportunity to transcend your circumstances. Votes: 3

YOU are using a frisbee as a plate." "Uh, what? I'm not using a--oh hang on, this is a frisbee. Weird." Victor glared at me. "Dude, calm down, I'll wash it afterward. It's probably dishwasher safe. Votes: 3

I am a great believer in the simplicity of things and as you probably know I am inclined to hang on to broad & simple ideas like grim death until evidence is too strong for my tenacity. Votes: 3

I paint digitally now. A pity, in some ways, as the biggest price one pays is that you no longer have a finished piece of physical art to hang on a wall. I miss that terribly. Votes: 3

Fear represents our need to hang on to the riverbank, to control outcomes, results, our lives; it swims upstream. Truth is about releasing that hold, letting go of results, and trusting the direction of Life's current. Votes: 3

Ju jitsu is very Buddhist. All that we fear we hold close to ourselves to survive. So if you're drowning and you see a corpse floating by, hang on to it because it will rescue you. Votes: 3

I don't believe in astrology. It's a lot of crap. I just think that's another thing you should throw out the window. Mysticism. Cheap. It's amazing that people still hang on to that after all these years. Votes: 3

Each time you put the muscle back on, your body has that muscle memory and wants to hang on to it, so you just have be well underfed and over-trained to get it off and it's exhausting. Votes: 3

Happiness is the lucky pane of glass you carry in your head. It takes all your cunning just to hang on to it, and once it's smashed you have to move into a different sort of life. Votes: 3

I heard when I talk, they all listen, They hang on every word from the God, they all Christians. I baptize 'em with lines, this is y'all christenin' Bless with the gift of my presence, this y'all's Christmas. Votes: 3

I should've died a hundred thousand times,Teetering stoned off the side of a building.Nobody loved me and nobody even triedYou can't hang on to something that won't stop moving.Singing and dancing to them nighttime songs. Votes: 3

You got to harden yourself. Make, like, a shell around you. But not everyone can do it. If they got nothing to hang on to some of them screw up. They’re not in the game no more. Votes: 3

I've had probably way too many acting classes, and you try to sort of shed - I think over a period of time, you'll shed what doesn't stick with you, and you'll hang onto those things that do. Votes: 3

Anytime we drag our past into the future, we have some grieving to do. When we refuse to grieve, we hang on to the weight of life that slows us down and robs us from finding our lives. Votes: 3

People like us are afraid to leave ball. What else is there to do? When baseball has been your whole life, you can't think about a future without it, so you hang on as long as you can. Votes: 3

The best way to find out if you have any friends is to go broke. The ones that hang on longest are your friends. I don't mean the ones that hang on forever. There aren't any of those. Votes: 3

A piece of advice I would give to young actors - hang on to your family, and hang on to your reality - and hang on to your "real". Because you're going into the land of make believe. Votes: 3

Usually I can go for three or four weeks and then I start to bake cakes or make jewellery and I think, 'hang on a minute, I'm obviously bored rigid. I need to get back out there.' Votes: 3

I was able to get through the field and get this Lowe's ProServices Chevy up front. Those last few restarts I was able to hang on and duke it out with those guys and get a nice, top-three finish. Votes: 3

The past is the past, but if you're overanalyzing or trying to repeat it, you're gonna get stuck. I just had a wonderful youth, and I loved everything about it, so I really try and hang on to it. Votes: 3

Under certain circumstances the fateful decisions in life, sometimes even in matters of life and death, are made with an almost indifferent ease. While the little things-for instance, the way people hang on to what is over-seem so important. Votes: 3

Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top. Votes: 3

We shall no longer hang on to the tails of public opinion or to a non- existent authority on matters utterly unknown and strange. We shall gradually become experts ourselves in the mastery of the knowledge of the Future. Votes: 3

People change, couples change, and you have to be able to accept what is coming without trying to hang on things that you had before that they may disappear but they may transform into something that is even better. Votes: 3

My motivation to compete was always about improving one year to the next. At 34, I realised I'd never run any quicker, so why hang on? But I love running and still run along woodland trails and beaches every few days. Votes: 3

Why, why are people all balls of bitter dust? Because they won't fall off the tree when they're ripe. They hang on to their old positions when the position is overpast, till they become infested with little worms and dry-rot. Votes: 3

Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past. Votes: 3

Words are beautiful but restricted. They're very masculine, with a compact frame. But voice is over the dark, the place where there's nothing to hang on: it comes from a part of yourself that simply knows, expresses itself, and is. Votes: 3

I just think that sometimes we hang onto people or relationships long after they've ceased to be of any use to either of you. I'm always meeting new people, and my list of friends seems to change quite a bit. Votes: 3

Life is such a precious gift. Whatever life throws at us, if we could just learn to get through that day and hang on to the next, you never know what may come. It may get worse, but you never know. Votes: 3

I started collecting art... simply because I wanted pictures to hang on the wall. I noticed what a difference a picture could make to the ambience of a room, and indeed how shifting work around could change a room's whole feeling. Votes: 3

Unfortunately, in self-discovery, you get the culty types who want the father figure or mother figure to tell them everything to do. They don't want to do any work. They want to hang on your energy and try to drain it. Votes: 3

To hang on from day to day and from week to week, spinning out a present that had no future, seemed an unconquerable instinct, just as one's lungs will always draw the next breath so long as there is air available. Votes: 3

If you believe, then you hang on. If you believe, it means you've got imagination, you don't need stuff thrown out on a blueprint, and don't face facts-what can stop you? If I don't make it today, I'll come in tomorrow. Votes: 3

In man - in the history of mankind, this has happened many times, and occupation leaders hang on to the land that they're occupying. People fight to liberate their land. But in the end, the people's will is what achieves victory. Votes: 3

We still carry this old caveman-imprint idea that we're small, nature's big, and it's everything we can manage to hang on and survive. When big geophysical events happen - a huge earthquake, tsunami, or volcanic eruption - we're reminded of that. Votes: 3

I think it's so important as an actor that you hang on to your own inner compass, because so many people want to guide you - 'This is what you should you be doing'. But I want to do different things. Votes: 3

There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer. Votes: 3

Sadly, I cant avoid being 75. Like many people of my age, we are all heading towards the grim reaper, and I am clinging on. I just to have to sharpen my fingernails a little so that I can hang on for longer! Votes: 3

Sadly, I can't avoid being 75. Like many people of my age, we are all heading towards the grim reaper, and I am clinging on. I just to have to sharpen my fingernails a little so that I can hang on for longer! Votes: 3

She wanted to stay out there, to hang on her branch in the world until the cold had burned down to her bones. She could leave her whitened bones scattered on the snow and depart like light. Whitened bones. A whited sepulcher. Votes: 3

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. Votes: 3

Vee said," I'm trying to read the title he's holding…hang on…How to Be a Stalker." "He is not checking out a book with that title." But I wasn't so sure. "It's either that of How to Radiate Sexy Without Trying. Votes: 3

Words are really beautiful, but they're limited. Words are very male, very structured. But the voice is the netherworld, the darkness, where there's nothing to hang onto. The voice comes from a part of you that just knows and expresses and is. Votes: 3

Anonymity is a wonderful thing if you can hang on to it. I live in Pasadena where we try to keep the movie people out. We discourage them from moving in our neighborhood and if they do we burn effigies on their lawns. Votes: 3

Even as the whole world tries to hang on to its job, there is also this weird parallel sense - almost a covert longing - that the old corrupt structures on which that job depends needs to be, ought to be, swept away. Votes: 3

It is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree -- make sure you understand the fundamental principles, ie the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves/details or there is nothing for them to hang on to. Votes: 3

Anonymity is a wonderful thing if you can hang on to it. I live in Pasadena where we try to keep the movie people out. We discourage them from moving in our neighborhood and if they do we burn effigies on their lawns. Votes: 3

If you have ever felt hopeless hang on The night you're enduring may seem long but there is joy coming in the morning. Incredible changes are going to take place in your life as you begin to relinquish your past and renew your present. Votes: 3

The Christmas message is that there is hope for a ruined humanity--hope of pardon, hope of peace with God, hope of glory--because at the Father's will Jesus became poor, and was born in a stable so that thirty years later He might hang on a cross. Votes: 3

How strange and wonderful is our home, our earth, with its swirling vaporous atmosphere, its flowing and frozen liquids, its trembling plants, its creeping, crawling, climbing creatures, the croaking things with wings that hang on rocks and soar through the fog, the furry grass, the scaly seas. Votes: 3

Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips, and Cranks, and wanton Wiles, Nods, and Becks, and wreathed Smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Votes: 3

You have to be very flexible and understand as a director, especially as a writer/director, that you cannot hang onto stuff really hard. You have to be ready to accept those happy accidents and to anticipate that they are going to happen and capitalize on them. Votes: 3

One bit of advice: it is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree - make sure you understand the fundamental principles, ie the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves/details or there is nothing for them to hang on to. Votes: 3

Whoa!" she says as I plow into her. " What are you DOING? Get off me!" I hang on tight. "Can't a girl just hug her big sister?" She stops fighting me. "Are you dying? Am I dying? Did Grandma die? I laugh. "No one died." "Then get off! Votes: 3

She hadn't realized how much she'd needed a dream, but it had transformed her, changed her from poor motherless and abandoned Tully to a girl poised to take on the world. The goal made her life story unimportant, gave her something to reach for, to hang on to Votes: 3

What merit there is in my thinking is derived from two peculiarities: (1) My inability to be familiar with anything. I simply can't take things for granted. (2) My endless patience. I assume that the only way to find an answer is to hang on long enough and keep groping. Votes: 3

It takes a lot more courage to let something go than it does to hang on to it, trying to make it better. Letting go doesn't mean ignoring a situation. Letting go means accepting what is, exactly as it is, without fear, resistance, or a struggle for control. Votes: 3

Well we're waiting here in Allentown For the Pennsylvania we never found For the promises our teachers gave If we worked hard If we behaved So the graduations hang on the wall But they never really helped us at all No they never taught us what was real Votes: 3

I think that sometimes people [who overreact or lash out] will hang on to their point just because they're so embarrassed that they made it. They won't set it down because they are the authors of these [disproportionate responses] and they have a lot to be embarrassed about. Votes: 3

A junky runs on junk time. When the junk is cut off, the clock runs down and stops. All he can do is hang on and wait for non-junky time to start. A sick junky has no escape from external time, no place to go. He can only wait. Votes: 3

There's something about the American spirit -– inherent in the American spirit -- we don't hang on to the past. We always move forward.... We are going to leave something better for our children –- not just here in the United States, but all around the world. Votes: 3

Understatement has become part of the tradition. A proposal to build a history room to house the football team's memorabilia was immediately shelved when many former players complained. What makes this program so special is what you carry in your heart, they argued, not what you hang on the wall. Votes: 3

A few years back I was asked if I would go and meet a director and his various acolytes, and it occurred to me halfway through the meeting that what I was doing was auditioning. And I thought, 'Well, hang on buddy. I've done half a century of this.' Votes: 3

Demographics show that we are entering a battle between young and old. I call it the 'Age War.' The young want to hang onto their money to grow their families, businesses, and wealth. The old want the tax and investment dollars of the young to sustain their old age. Votes: 3

Faith seems to grab people and not let go, but hope is a double-crosser. It can beat it on you anytime; it's your job to dig in your heels and hang on. Must be nice to have hope in your pocket, like loose change you could jingle through your fingers. Votes: 3

Can't nobody make us do a thang once we git hard against it. And if anybody don't like that, you don't have to explain a thang to'm. All you got to say is, 'I'm Charlotte Simmons, and I don't hold with thangs like 'at.' And they'll respect you for that. Votes: 3

I didn't always have 14,000 people wanting to hang out with me on a Saturday night. Votes: 2

I always hang things on my bags because I don't like them looking like everyone else's. Votes: 2

After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs. Votes: 2

It's not like I ride a broom into interviews. I don't hang upside down with a cape on. Votes: 2

The way we're going... if I called up another pitcher, he'd just hang up the phone on me. Votes: 2

In the United States today, the Declaration of Independence hangs on schoolroom walls, but foreign policy follows Machiavelli. Votes: 2

When people accuse me of being really posh, I think, 'Hang on a minute - no, I'm not!' Votes: 2

All keyes hang not on one girdle. Votes: 0

All words are pegs to hang ideas on. Votes: 0

I think clothes hang beautifully on thin women. Votes: 0

Do not quit. Hang on the wings of hope. Votes: 0

On what slender threads do life and fortune hang. Votes: 0

Hang your idea on a peg that all can read. Votes: 0

I hang my laundry on the line when I write. Votes: 0

Hang on, did you just call me Angel?" "If I did? Votes: 0

Hang up the phone on a vampire, the definition of carefree. Votes: 0

Incredible what slender threads you begin to hang your hopes on. Votes: 0

Money doesn't grow on trees but it does hang out in lakes Votes: 0

Nominal damages are in effect, only a peg to hang costs on. Votes: 0

Hang on to your eccentricities, because they will give you a style. Votes: 0

Hang on! God will be thy strength in any act of your pursuit. Votes: 0

If my Valentine you won't be,I'll hang myself on your Christmas tree. Votes: 0

You might say that certain words are only pegs to hang intonations on. Votes: 0

Even if lives did hang in the balance, it would depend on whose they were. Votes: 0

Anything big enough to occupy our minds is big enough to hang a prayer on. Votes: 0

Facts are the barren branches on which we hang the dear, obscuring foliage of our dreams. Votes: 0

A generating function is a clothesline on which we hang up a sequence of numbers for display. Votes: 0

Never saw the branch you are sittin on, unless they are trying to hang you from it. Votes: 0

I feel so small I could sit on a dime an' my legs wouldn't even hang over ... Votes: 0

We bar girls don't cheat on wives, we are just the rope that cheating husbands hang themselves with. Votes: 0

Jesus has borne the death penalty on our behalf. Behold the wonder! There He hang upon the cross! Votes: 0

Baseball without fans is like Jayne Mansfield without a sweater. Hang on, that can be taken two ways. Votes: 0

If things are going bad and life is tough, hang in there. Ride it out. Come out on top. Votes: 0

You can make a movie about anything, as long as it has a hook to hang the advertising on. Votes: 0

Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day. Votes: 0

If you want to look young and thin on your birthday. Hang around a bunch of old fat people. Votes: 0

There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one, Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on. Votes: 0

Magnus gazed dreamily in his direction. "You should leave him here. I could hang hats on him and things. Votes: 0

The world is full of burled and gnarly knobs on which you can hang a metaphysical system. If you must. Votes: 0

Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air. Votes: 0

I like to hang out clothes on windy days. Sometimes that's all I feel like. A sheet on a line. Votes: 0

Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage. Votes: 0

If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class! Votes: 0

I usually hang out on the set. I get to know everybody. I have a nice time with the other actors. Votes: 0

It's pretty cool to be able to hang out with the President and have the race-winning car on the South Lawn. Votes: 0

To hang out in a gay bar or put on a sequined halter top makes me feel like a total person. Votes: 0

Who, other than a crazy person, does anything besides hang up on a robo-call? Any call, any person, anywhere, under any circumstances. Votes: 0

My faith is a great weight hung on a small wire, as doth the spider hang her baby on a thin web. Votes: 0

If you get hung up on everybody else's hang-ups, then the whole world's going to be nothing more than one huge gallows. Votes: 0

Hang on, did you just call me Angel?" I asked. "If I did?" "I don't like it." He grinned. "It stays, Angel. Votes: 0

AIDS is the leprosy of the 21st Century. Where did Jesus hang out? With lepers. Jesus would love on people with AIDS. Votes: 0

I hang out with all the crew on set. It just makes it easier to work. You feel more comfortable around everyone. Votes: 0

Hang on to this with your life: "In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world." Votes: 0

It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on. Votes: 0

Skyping with your spouse works well enough, but apparently it is hard to get the kids to hang out on Skype for long. Votes: 0

I work mostly during the week, and on the weekend I get to hang out with friends, so it balances out pretty well. Votes: 0

I do like to hang out in the corner and keep my eye on the party, or be outside in a smaller group. Votes: 0

I would take up any small job on the sets, just so that I could hang around with the hope of getting noticed. Votes: 0

There is such sweet pain in parting that I could hang forever on thine arms, and look away my life into thine eyes. Votes: 0

I've cut down on a lot of stuff this summer, just so I can hang out and be a normal kid for a while. Votes: 0

You'd be surprised how many people want to hang an electric chair on their living-room wall. Specially if the background color matches the drapes. Votes: 0

Adapt your style, if you wish, to admit the color of slang or freshness of neologism, but hang tough on clarity, precision, structure, grace. Votes: 0

I cut down trees, I skip and jump, I like to press wild flowers. I put on women's clothing and hang around in bars. Votes: 0

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. Votes: 0

I don't go to royal parties or play polo on horseback. No, I don't hang out with the posh crowd, if that makes sense. Votes: 0

Be your own lamps. Be your own shelters. Hang on to the truth as a lamp. Hang on to the truth as a refuge. Votes: 0

The plot is not very important to me, though a novel must have one, of course. It's just a line to hang the washing on. Votes: 0

I love soul. But I love a tune that has some meat in it. Something I could hang my hat on. Because music is universal. Votes: 0

If I miss anything, it's being able to hang out in the city of New York meeting people and talking to them on the corner. Votes: 0

Hope is anchor.No matter the circumstance, there is hope. Hang on to everlasting hope. It will keep your alive through the storms of life. Votes: 0

On one level the sixties revolt was an impressive illustration of Lenin's remark that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with. Votes: 0

'Twas merry when You wagered on your angling, when your diver Did hang a salt fish on his hook, which he With fervency drew up. Votes: 0

Tiger, come on now, you've still got work to do. This round and golf tournament are not over. Hang in there and finish the race. Votes: 0

When I go on vacation I just like to do nothing - just hang out at the beach, go eat the best restaurants, and do nothing. Votes: 0

John Legend is a cool guy. He likes to chill, is easy to talk to and hang out with. He's also inspiring on a musical level. Votes: 0

People are more likely to help other people who look exactly like them. They will hang out at the bar and on the golf course with them. Votes: 0

Robert was never the same after he put on that crown. Some men are like swords, made for fighting. Hang them up and they go to rust. Votes: 0

In the next election, can we vote to ban those ribbon things that kind of keep clothing on hangers but really just hang out of your armpits? Votes: 0

Just go on dancing with me like this forever and I'll never tire. We'll scrape our shoe on the stars and hang upside down from the moon. Votes: 0

You know, I'm really bad on the computer. I'm really lame, man. I read and hang out with my kids. I've turned into a five year old. Votes: 0

Well, I'm pretty domestic actually. I walk my dog. I go grocery shopping. I hang out with friends. I'm pretty normal, whatever normal is, on my off time. Votes: 0

People hang their hopes on you fitting into their CD collection in way that they have made a space for, but I'm playing a longer game than that. Votes: 0

I'd go to Coney Island to hang out, and I saw a magician doing a rope trick on the boardwalk. I was fascinated. I guess that's how it started. Votes: 0

She always says I'm the best friend that she's ever had... how do you hang up on someone who needs you that bad? ~From 'Laura' on The Nylon Curtain Votes: 0

I've always asked myself since I was young, what is my duty on this planet? What am I there for? Just to hang around? Everybody must have some purpose. Votes: 0

I hang in there all the time. I'm not afraid to be taken out. I think that's the biggest thing to do-just stay in there on the double play. Votes: 0

Hang on. This Lord Voldything's back you say?... and now he's sending dismembers after you?... I see. Well that settles it, YOU CAN GET OUT OF THIS HOUSE BOY! Votes: 0

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off. Votes: 0

Hang on to your dreams with everything you got. Because the best life is when your dreams come true. The second-best is when they don't but you never stop chasing them. Votes: 0

Women's magazines continue to print 'helpful' articles on How to Hang on to Your Husband while thousands of wives write to me and complain that 'hanging is too good for 'em. Votes: 0

You’ve got mountains of your own, I’ll bet on it. Take heart. Be encouraged. Remain steadfast. Hang on for dear life. You’ve got a better grip than you realize. Votes: 0

There's no chivalry in culture any more. Sometimes you meet someone who everyone says is polite and you're like, 'Wow,' but then it's like, 'Hang on, isn't everyone supposed to be polite?' Votes: 0

I sailed on the cold air currents above the rooftops of Paris. I could see the river, the Louvre Museum, the gardens and palaces. And a mouse-yum. Hang on, Carter, I thought. not hunting mice. Votes: 0

I sailed on the cold air currents above the rooftops of Paris. I could see the river, the Louvre Museum, the gardens and palaces. And a mouse-yum. Hang on, Carter, I thought. not hunting mice." Votes: 0