Cling Quotes - page 9

As each Sister is to become a Co-Worker of Christ in the slums, each ought to understand what God and the Missionaries of Charity expect from her. Let Christ radiate and live his life in her and through her in the slums. Let the poor, seeing her, be drawn to Christ and invite him to enter their homes and their lives. Let the sick and suffering find in her a real angel of comfort and consolation. Let the little ones of the streets cling to her because she reminds them of him, the friend of the little ones. (Mother Teresa)
To be a tourist is to escape accountability. Errors and failings don't cling to you the way they do back home. You're able to drift across continents and languages, suspending the operation of sound thought. Tourism is the march of stupidity. View quote
Don DeLillo
Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests. View quote
C. Wright Mills
It is very sobering to realize just what the future holds for a boy of my age. On the other hand it is a practical challenge to a man's courage and personal integrity. A man who talks but is afraid to act, who sacrifices principle to expediency whenever real danger threatens is not worthy to keep and enjoy what he has. He is not worthy of his background and heritage who kowtows to tyranny in order to cling to his temporary safety and comfort...I trust I will have the courage to act as I speak come what may. I will not be easy – but should, therefore, can be done. View quote
Nile Kinnick
And yet, there are still people in American politics who, for some reason, cling to this belief that America is better off adopting the economic policies of nations whose people who immigrate here from there. View quote
Marco Rubio
There is abundant room here for the preservation and development of the many divergent virtues that are characteristic of the different races which have made America their home. They ought to cling to all these virtues and cultivate them tenaciously. View quote
Calvin Coolidge
There is a period near the beginning of every man's life when he has little to cling to except his unmanageable dream, little to support him except good health, and nowhere to go but all over the place. View quote
E. B. White
Be calm and strong and patient. Meet failure and disappointment with courage. Rise superior to the trials of life, and never give in to hopelessness or despair. In danger, in adversity, cling to your principles and ideals. Aequanimitas. View quote
William Osler
I am moved by fancies that are curled Around these images, and cling: The notion of some infinitely gentle Infinitely suffering thing. Wipe your hand across your mouth, and laugh; The worlds revolve like ancient women Gathering fuel in vacant lots. View quote
T. S. Eliot
You can be a mama's boy, be a daddy's boy, but you can't be both. So you cling to the one you think you might lose. View quote
Mitch Albom
Don't cling to things because everything is impermanent. (Mitch Albom)
I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death. View quote
Alexandre Dumas
But, dear, cling close to me; since you were gone, My barren thoughts have chilled me to the bone. View quote
William Butler Yeats
To be sure, the other America is not impoverished in the same sense as those poor nations where millions cling to hunger as a defense against starvation. This country has escaped such extremes. That does not change the fact that tens of millions of Americans are, at this very moment, maimed in body and spirit, existing at levels beneath those necessary for human decency. If these people are not starving, they are hungry, and sometimes far with hunger, for that is what cheap foods do. They are without adequate housing and education and medical care. View quote
Michael Harrington
That when the cup of wrath is drained, The metal purified, They'll cling to what they once disdained, And live by Him that died. View quote
Anne Brontë
Sometimes we find it hardest to accept in others that which we cling to in ourselves. View quote
Brandon Sanderson
Cling to your insecurity, in this world, it's the only thing you can be sure of. View quote
Ashleigh Brilliant
But not on that account (for I'd be wrong) Would I advise you, ladies, to shun love, For like a vine untended, with no strong Support to cling to, you would be. View quote
Ludovico Ariosto
Blest is my lot whate'er befall; What can disturb me, who appall, While, as my strength, my rock, my all, Saviour! I cling to Thee? View quote
Charlotte Elliott
Kiss and cling to them, kiss and leave them, Bright and beguiling:. View quote
Francis Turner Palgrave
A significant minority of people fully reject human evolution, opting instead for the belief that humans were specially created with no prior evolutionary ancestry less than ten thousand years ago. Such beliefs are often infused with a non-scientific perception of different races and how the supposedly originated. And, in spite of overwhelming scientific evidence and changing social norms, a relatively large proportion of people still cling to past traditions of white supremacy and racism. (Daniel J. Fairbanks)
Scientific fundamentalists claim that science is the disinterested pursuit of truth. But representing science in this way is to disregard the human needs science serves. Among us, science serves two needs: for hope and censorship. Today, only science supports the myth of progress. If people cling to the hope of progress, it is not so much from genuine belief as from fear of what may come if they give it up. The political projects of the twentieth century have failed, or achieved much less than they promised. At the same time, progress in science is a daily experience, confirmed whenever we buy a new electronic gadget, or take a new drug. Science gives us a sense of progress that ethical and political life cannot. View quote
John N. Gray
Cling to truth and it turns into falsehood. Understand falsehood and it turns into truth. View quote
Ryōkan
Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life they are shades armed with tooth and claw. They must be grappled with unceasingly, for it is a fateful part of human destiny that it is condemned to wage perpetual war against ghosts. A shade is not easily taken by the throat and destroyed. View quote
Victor Hugo
To enjoy anything, we cannot be attached to it... What we usually try to do is capture any joy that comes our way before it can escape... We try to cling to pleasure, but all we succeed in doing is making ourselves frustrated because, whatever it promises, pleasure simply cannot last. But if I am willing to kiss the joy as it flies, I say, "Yes, this moment is beautiful. I won't grab it. I'll let it go." View quote
Eknath Easwaran