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

  Ming-Dao Deng

  Moving, Doors, Water

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• Everything hinges on how you look at things

  Henry Miller

  Looks

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

  Victor Hugo

  Angel, Doors, Heaven

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• PANTALOONS, n. A nether habiliment of the adult civilized male. The garment is tubular and unprovided with hinges at the points of flexion. Supposed to have been invented by a humorist. Called trousers by the enlightened and pants by the unworthy.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Adults, Males, Pants

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.91, Courier Corporation

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• The Bookshop has a thousand books,
  All colors, hues, and tinges,
  And every cover is a door
  That turns on magic hinges.

  Nancy Byrd Turner

  Book, Doors, Color

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• Religion hinges upon faith, politics hinges upon who can tell the most convincing lies or maybe just shout the loudest, but science hinges upon whether its conclusions resembe what actually happens.

  Ian Stewart

  Lying, Science, Conclusion

  Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen (1999). “Figments of Reality: The Evolution of the Curious Mind”, p.36, Cambridge University Press

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• Swinging on delicate hinges the autumn leaf almost off the stem.

  Jack Kerouac

  Fall, Autumn, Leafs

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• Only those young people can be accepted as healthy who refuse to be reconciled with the old order and foolishly or wisely struggle against it - such is the will of nature...

  Anton Chekhov

  Progress, Way, Youth

  "Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends: With Biographical Sketch". Book by Anton Chekhov, 1920.

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• Noon - is the Hinge of Day-.

  Emily Dickinson

  Noon

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1205, Delphi Classics

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