Clinging Quotes - Page 11

• Knowing honor, but clinging to disgrace, you become the valley of the world.

  Laozi

  Compassion, Knowing, Honor

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• There are just a host of problems born by the electronic age. Things we couldn't even conceive of. I was amused by the analogy that Justice Scalia made in a case about a GPS tracker so you don't know that's being done to your car, is that a violation of your right to protection against unreasonable searches and seizures. So Justice Scalia imagines a constable clinging to the bottom of a carriage as it went on its way, so there was some notion that this similar: there is an official eye that's on you, but you don't know about it. Yes, there are all kinds of challenges.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Eye, Gps, Justice

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• Our souls, shame-wounded by our sins, cling to us yet more, a woman to her lover clinging, the more the more.

  James Joyce

  Soul, Lovers, Sin

  James Joyce (2016). “James Joyce The Dover Reader”, p.431, Courier Dover Publications

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• Most men probably wouldn't want to live the lives of bonobos. They're constantly clinging to their mothers' apron strings. They lack the ability to make decisions about their own fates, something that we and male chimpanzees practically consider our birthright.

  Frans de Waal

  Mother, Fate, Men

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• When we see beyond self, we no longer cling to happiness. And when we stop clinging, we can begin to be happy.

  Ajahn Chah

  Self

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• The price of clinging to the enemy [a man] is your life. To enter into a relationship with a man who has divested himself as completely and publicly from the male role as much as possible would still be a risk. But to relate to a man who has done any less is suicide.... I, personally, have taken the position that I will not appear with any man publicly, where it could possibly be interpreted that we were friends.

  Ti-Grace Atkinson

  Suicide, Taken, Men

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• The battle against the dark one and the clinging to the right one is what my life is about.

  Johnny Cash

  Dark, Battle, Life Is

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• I don't think people ever were free of fear of death, but clinging to life and being so unprepared for it is a modern experience.

  Katy Butler

  Thinking, People, Modern

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Modern art must strike out from the old. The new is not revealed to those whose eyes are fastened in worship upon the old…Have you ever seen an inch worm crawl up a leaf or twig, and then clinging to the very end, revolve in the air, feeling for something to reach? That's like me. I am trying to find something out there beyond the place on which I have a footing.

  Albert Pinkham Ryder

  Art, Eye, Air

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• There's no point in clinging to illusions.

  Eva Heller

  Illusion, No Point

  Eva Heller (1992). “With the next man everything will be different”, Random House Inc

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• Knowing the bright, but clinging to the dark, you become a model to the world.

  Laozi

  Dark, Compassion, Knowing

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• Nothing can be more demoralizing than a clinging and abject dependence upon another human being. This often amounts to the demand for a degree of protection and love that no one could possibly satisfy. So our hoped for protectors finally flee, and once more we are left alone - either to grow up or to disintegrate.

  Bill W.

  Growing Up, And Love, Degrees

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• I am not saying that you should renounce things, that you should escape from your home and renounce the marketplace. No, don't misunderstand my statement. What is, is good. Nothing will happen either by dropping things and escaping from them or by clinging to them. Remain where you are, but begin the search within. Much outer searching has already been done, now go within. Now know the one, in this knowing one attains all. All desires are at once fulfilled.

  Rajneesh

  Happiness, Home, Escaping

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• Learn something from marriage. Marriage represents the whole world in a miniature form: it teaches you many things. It is only the mediocre ones who learn nothing. Otherwise it will teach you that you don't know what love is, that you don't know how to relate, that you don't know how to communicate, that you don't know how to commune, that you don't know how to live with another. It is a mirror: it shows your face to you in all its different aspects. And it is all needed for your maturity. But a person who remains clinging to it forever remains immature. One has to go beyond it too.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Maturity, Love Is

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• There must be some unwritten law that says about fifty people have to move into your house when somebody dies. If it weren't for the smell of death clinging to the walls, you might think it was your family's turn to host the month neighborhood potluck supper.

  Adam Rapp

  Death, Wall, Moving

  Adam Rapp (2011). “Under the Wolf, Under the Dog”, p.82, Candlewick Press

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• A really intelligent nation might be held together by far stronger forces than are derived from the purely gregarious instincts. A nation need not be a mob of slaves, clinging to one another through fear, and for the most part incapable of self-government, and begging to be led; but it might consist of vigorous self-reliant men, knit to one another by innumerable ties, into a strong, tense, and elastic organisation.

  Francis Galton

  Strong, Intelligent, Men

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• And we are quotation marks, inverted and upside down, clinging to one another at the end of this life sentence. Trapped by lives we did not choose.

  Tahereh Mafi

  Quotation Marks, Upside Down, Ends

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• There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to the page, a gossamer web. They seemed insubstantial when you first saw them, a string of squiggles. Yet to follow the delicate tensors as they contracted, as the superscripts paired with subscripts, collapsing mathematically into concrete classical entities - potential; mass; forces vectoring in a curved geometry - that was a sublime experience. The iron fist of the real, inside the velvet glove of airy mathematics.

  Gregory Benford

  Real, Math, Iron

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• And perhaps, those of us in the industry who are still foolishly clinging to the idea that female films, with women at the center are niche experience, they are not. Audiences want to see them and, in fact, they earn money. The world is round, people.

  Cate Blanchett

  Ideas, People, Female

  "Oscars Transcripts from All the Acceptance Speeches!". Article by Sam Coffey, www.awardscircuit.com. March 3, 2014.

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• For the first time in history, men and women are seriously exploring the possibilities of relationships based on separateness rather than togetherness. Instead of clinging to Yahweh, to a rigid set of laws established by a jealous Father-God who will rant in fury if he is disobeyed, they are simply ignoring that ranting, walking away from it, and attempting to put their trust in the irrational. In other words, they are trying to live by the spirit.

  Marion Woodman

  Father, Jealous, Men

  Marion Woodman (1982). “Addiction to Perfection: The Still Unravished Bride : a Psychological Study”

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• Religionists are clinging to little, positive, verbal, formal versions of the moral law... while the laws of the Law, the great circling truths whose only adequate symbol is the material laws, the astronomy etc. are all unobserved, and sneered at when spoken of.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Law, Adequate

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.79, Courier Corporation

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• Meditating means bringing the mind back to something again and again. Thus, we all meditate, but unless we direct it in some way, we meditate on ourselves and on our own problems, reinforcing our self-clinging.

  Bill Vaughan

  Mean, Self, Meditation

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• Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life.

  Matthew Arnold

  Blood, Class, Passionate

  'Essays in Criticism' First Series (1865) preface

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• We postpone the finality of heartbreak by clinging to hope. Though this might be acceptable during early or transitional stages of grief, ultimately it is no way to live. We need both hands free to embrace life and accept love, and that's impossible if one hand has a death grip on the past.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Grief, Past, Hands

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