Hinges Quotes

Big doors swing on little hinges.

W. Clement Stone

Swings, Doors, Growth

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As soon as you open your mind to doing things differently, the doors of opportunity practically fly off their hinges.

Jay Abraham

Opportunity, Doors, Mind

Jay Abraham (2010). “The Sticking Point Solution: 9 Ways to Move Your Business from Stagnation to Stunning Growth in Tough Economic Times (Large Print 16pt)”, p.45, ReadHowYouWant.com

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Everything hinges on how you look at things

Henry Miller

Looks

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A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Keys, Treasure, Golden

J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit: 75th Anniversary Edition”, p.105, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Good actions are the invisible hinges on the doors of heaven.

Victor Hugo

Angel, Doors, Heaven

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Back on its golden hinges The gate of Memory swings, And my heart goes into the garden And walks with the olden things.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Memories, Heart, Garden

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.127, Delphi Classics

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May the hinges of friendship never rust, nor the wings of love lose a feather.

Edward Ramsay

Friendship, Wings, Rust

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The door to a balanced success opens widest on the hinges of hope and encouragement.

Zig Ziglar

Success, Encouragement, Doors

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We all act as hinges-fortuitous links between other people.

Penelope Lively

Work, People, Links

Penelope Lively (2007). “Moon Tiger”, p.143, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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A moving door hinge never corrodes. Flowing water never grows stagnant.

Ming-Dao Deng

Moving, Doors, Water

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We put thirty spokes to make a wheel: But it is on the hole in the center that the use of the cart hinges. We make a vessel from a lump of clay; But it is the empty space within the vessel that makes it useful. We make doors and windows for a room; But it is the empty spaces that make the room livable. Thus, while existence has advantages, It is the emptiness that makes it useful.

Laozi

Doors, Space, Clay

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Its the hinge that squeaks that gets the grease

Malcolm X

Grease

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

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To the optimist all doors have handles and hinges; to the pessimist, all doors have locks and latches.

William Arthur Ward

Doors, Locks, Pessimist

William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

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If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover these precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Spiritual, Reality, African American

"Rediscovering Lost Values". Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Sermon at Detroit's Second Baptist Church, kinginstitute.stanford.edu. February 28, 1954.

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How silently the heart pivots on its hinge.

Jane Hirshfield

Heart

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

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

David Steindl-Rast

Heart, Good Luck, Luck

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

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I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together.

Lisa Kleypas

Love, Believe, Ideas

FaceBook post by Lisa Kleypas from Sep 20, 2010

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It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small matters over a period of years. But the catch is that you can never know when a seemingly small decision may prove to be, from the vantage of later years, the big decision of your life.

Norman Vincent Peale

Years, Careers, Decision

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Choices are the hinges of destiny.

Edwin Markham

Destiny, Choices, Decision

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On a sudden open fly With impetuous recoil and jarring sound Th' infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder.

John Milton

Doors, Sound, Thunder

'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 2, l. 879

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

Fanny Fern

Littles, Little Things, Universe

"Ruth Hall and Other Writings".

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It has been said that the gate of history turns on small hinges, and so do people's lives. The choices we make determine our destiny.

Thomas S. Monson

Destiny, People, Choices

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The common notions that we find in credit around us and infused into our souls by our fathers' seed, these seem to be the universal and natural ones. Whence it comes to pass that what is off the hinges of custom, people believe to be off the hinges of reason.

Michel de Montaigne

Father, Believe, People

Michel de Montaigne (1979). “Essays”

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...I love 'yes.' It's practically the most interesting word of all, don't you think?" Like a hinge opening a door outward. Yes, yes, yes.

Hanif Kureishi

Thinking, Doors, Interesting

Hanif Kureishi (2009). “The Black Album with My Son the Fanatic: A Novel and a Short Story”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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The ability for a group of people to do remarkable things hinges on how well those people can pull together as a team.

Simon Sinek

Team, People, Together

Twitter post from Sep 20, 2013

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