Quotes About Barely Hanging On

#1. Had she been hanging on to her dream of being a writer, but only barely hanging on, and something made her let go?

Sherman Alexie

#2. Everyone worries, everyone feels at least a little bit doomed basically all the time, even the richest, most successful, most secure among us live in perpetually anxious states of barely hanging on

Ben Fountain

#3. Today, everything about New York leaves me feeling like I'm competing for space, and just barely hanging on.

Lauren Graham

#4. I don't even want to know someone who isn't barely hanging on by a thread.

Amy Schumer

#5. There Are No Ends, Only Changes.

Patrick Ness

#6. Punishments included hanging by the thumbs, toes barely touching the ground; bucking and gagging, being trussed like a turkey with a bit cutting the mouth; spread-eagling on a spare wheel, mocking crucifixion; flogging; and branding.

Michael C.C. Adams

#7. Picpus Cemetery, where Lafayette is buried under dirt from Bunker Hill.

Sarah Vowell

#8. The walking of passers-by offers a series of turns and detours that can be compared to "turns of phrase" or "stylistic figures." There is a rhetoric of walking. The art of "turning" phrases finds an equivalent in an art of composing a path.

Michel De Certeau

#9. Big Brother fills us all with the same crap. My guess is he was clever the same way everybody thinks they're clever. I tell her to type in 'password

Chuck Palahniuk

#10. Pilate was merciful till it became risky.

C.S. Lewis

#11. How can a person have a sense of something if he does not have the germ of it within himself. What I am to understand must develop organically within me
and what I seem to learn is only nourishment
stimulation of the organism.

Novalis

#12. Maybe sometimes you just feel like everything can be taken from you all at once.

Deb Caletti

#13. As you begin to think more in terms of importance, you begin to see time differently.

Stephen Covey