Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.
Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.
An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.
In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.
Dry seeds scatter from my hand into the wind one clings as if to say there is in me something yet to be.
Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the people's body.
A long past vividly remembered is like a heavy garment that clings to your limbs when you would run.
So silent I when Love was by
He yawned, and turned away;
But Sorrow clings to my apron-strings,
I have so much to say.
A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism.
The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.
Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.
Conservatism clings to what has been established, fearing that, once we begin to question the beliefs that we have inherited, all the values of life will be destroyed.
A good wife is like the ivy which beautifies the building to which it clings, twining its tendrils more lovingly as time converts the ancient edifice into a ruin.
Words contract a significance which clings to them long after the condition of things to which they owe it has passed away.
I love the touch of silken hand
That softly clings;
In old of age I understand
Life's little things.
Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
© 2020 Inspirational Stories