Hinges Quotes - Page 5

• If I could simplify the whole game of power and strategy in one equation, it would all hinge on the capacity to see events around you exactly as they are. The closer your mind is to reality, the better your strategies, your responses in life.

  Robert Greene

  Reality, Games, Mind

  Source: www.sonshi.com

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• It is characteristic to believe that those in need are given to, that the squeaky hinge is the one that gets the oil, but in the realm of emotions this is not so. It is the person who does not solicit liking and love, admiration and respect, sympathy and empathy to whom they are freely given.

  Jo Coudert

  Respect, Believe, Oil

  Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.134, iUniverse

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• The hinge is distinctly different, so when you look at it carefully, you recognize that it is its own unique design.

  Irwin M. Jacobs

  Unique, Design, Different

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• The solution of the Monty Hall problem hinges on the concept of information, and more specifically, on the relationship between added information and probability.

  Hans Christian von Baeyer

  Information, Problem, Probability

  Hans Christian Von Baeyer (2004). “Information: The New Language of Science”, p.70, Harvard University Press

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• [Cole Porter] sang like a hinge.

  Ethel Merman

  Art, Entertainment

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• Currently under FCC policy, indecency determinations hinge on two factors. First, material must describe or depict sexual or excretory organs or activities. Second, the material must be patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards for the broadcast medium.

  Doug Ose

  Determination, Two, Fcc

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• The doors of opportunity swing on the hinges of opposition!

  Adrian Rogers

  Opportunity, Swings, Doors

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• There goes many a ship to sea, with many hundred souls in one ship, whose weal and woe is common, and is a true picture of a commonwealth or a human combination or society. It hath fallen out sometimes that Papists, Protestants, Jews, and Turks may be embarked in one ship; upon which supposal I affirm that all the liberty of conscience that ever I pleaded for turns upon these two hinges: that none of the Papists, Protestants, Jews, or Turks be forced to come to the ships prayers or worship, nor be compelled [restrained] from their own particular prayers or worship, if they practice any.

  Roger Williams

  Prayer, Sea, Practice

  Source: www.libertymagazine.org

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• Our justification hinges on a risen life, present in us now because Christ is present with us now.

  Paul F. M. Zahl

  Easter, Resurrection Of Jesus Christ, Justification

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• The only consent hinge in life is that everyhin is changing. And that's a little scary, but it means that hints can't be bad or hard forever.

  Amanda Hocking

  Mean, Scary, Forever

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• It is not on our forgiveness any more than on our goodness that the world's healing hinges, but His. When He tells us to love our enemies, He gives, along with the command, the love itself.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Healing, Giving, Enemy

  Corrie ten Boom, Elizabeth Sherrill, John Sherrill (2006). “The Hiding Place”, p.248, Chosen Books

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• I could envision it all to clearly: Stuart or Debbie finding the dented door off its hinges, lying in the snow. "She came in, ravaged the boy, stole plastic bags, and ripped off the door in her escape," the police would say in the APB. "Probably making her way to bust her parents out of jail.

  Maureen Johnson

  Lying, Boys, Doors

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• The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge.

  Meister Eckhart

  Men, Doors, Self

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• The world is seldom so simple that it hinges on us alone.

  Rachel Hartman

  Simple, World

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• The stuff of life turned out to be not a quivering, glowing, wondrous gel but a contraption of tiny jigs, springs, hinges, rods, sheets, magnets, zippers, and trapdoors, assembled by a data tape whose information is copied, downloaded and scanned.

  Steven Pinker

  Spring, Glowing, Data

  Steven Pinker (2009). “How the Mind Works”, p.22, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I had a briefcase at one point, but it was a kind of 1980s New Wave briefcase. It was made of some kind of cardboard and it had metal hinges. It was kind of faux industrial looking, and I used to carry my books in it rather than a backpack. I didn't want to have normal student accoutrements.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Book, Want, Normal

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• There are moments in history when a door for massive change opens, and great revolutions for good or evil spring up in the vacuum created by these openings. In these divine moments key men and women and even entire generations risk everything to become the hinge of history, the pivotal point that determines which way the door will swing.

  Lou Engle

  Spring, Men, Keys

  James W. Goll, Lou Engle (2011). “The Call of the Elijah Revolution”, p.101, Destiny Image Publishers

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• Still, despite all our noise, this universe hinges on a melody, that’s the dismal truth of it. Oh, we can propagandize all we wish, it doesn’t change the fabric of things. This universe was not made for the fallen, only the redeemed.

  Geoffrey Wood

  Wish, Fabric, Noise

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• Samsung's future hinges on new businesses, new products and new technologies. We should make our corporate culture more open, flexible and innovative.

  Lee Kun-hee

  Technology, Culture, Should

  "Samsung and Hyundai issue rallying call" by Song Jung-a, www.cnn.com. January 2, 2012.

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• We need a candidate who's going to be a fighter for freedom. Who is going to get up and make that the central theme in this race because it is the central theme in this race. I don't care what the unemployment rate's going to be. Doesn't matter to me. My campaign doesn't hinge on unemployment rates and growth rates.

  Rick Santorum

  Race, Growth, Needs

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• Coaches do so much research about a referee because they believe refereeing is such a crucial part of the game that the result may hinge on what we say or do. They probably know more about me than I know myself!

  Alan Lewis

  Believe, Games, Research

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• When people used to call me a political writer, it was kind of confusing because I was always much more interested in the social end of things which hinges on the political, but it isn’t really part of it.

  Janis Ian

  People, Political, Confusing

  "An Interview With Janis Ian Plus This Week’s New Albums". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 23, 2009.

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• We live in a beauty-obsessed age and success sometimes appears to hinge solely on the presentation of an image that is acceptable to the press.

  Douglas Booth

  Age, Sometimes, Obsessed

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The atonement, or forgiveness of sin once and for all achieved on the cross, weighs in, and heavily. But the atonement is confirmed, ratified, sealed, and made enduringly good by virtue of Christ's rising from death. Our justification hinges on a risen life, present in us now because Christ is present with us now.

  Paul F. M. Zahl

  Rising, Resurrection, Atonement

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• God did not make a mistake when He chose you to bear Christ's name at this hinge of history.

  David Shibley

  Mistake, Names, Bears

  David Shibley (1997). “Once in a Lifetime: Seizing Today's Opportunities for World Harvest”, Sovereign World Limited

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