Top 43 Quotes About Dangled
#1. Hope is the denial of reality. It is the carrot dangled before the draft horse to keep him plodding along in a vain attempt to reach it."
"Are you saying we shouldn't hope?"
"I'm saying we should remove the carrot and walk forward with our eyes open!
Margaret Weis
#2. I saw the years of my life spaced along a road in the form of telephone poles threaded together by wires. I counted one, two, three ... nineteen telephone poles, and then the wires dangled into space, and try as I would, I couldn't see a single pole beyond the nineteenth.
Sylvia Plath
#3. She dropped her hand to the side of the chair and it dangled in the air between them. And, like it had been perfectly choreographed, Henry reached over and took it.
Sarah Addison Allen
#4. A bead of cold sweat dangled on my fingertip before dripping onto the doorbell. What if I got electrocuted from my wet fingers? I would die literally inches from my first high school party. And everyone would be like, oh, poor thing was so nervous, what a tragedy. Death by sweat.
Lindsey Leavitt
#5. Back in the days of the great Depression, an old sign dangled by one staple from a piece of rusting barbed wire. The owner of the farm had written:
'Burned out by drought,
Drowned out by flud waters,
Et out by jack-rabbits,
Sold out by sheriff,
STILL HERE.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#6. Talk to me. Look up, I thought. But she didn't, only stopped and picked a sprig of alyssum to smell the honey. I cut a shred from my heart and dangled it on a homemade hook before her.
Janet Fitch
#7. He dangled, he strangled, and there he hung on that bright, bright morning when I showed up to call him for breakfast.
Charlie Carillo
#8. A person who searched rooms, brandished pistols, dangled promises of half a million franc fees for nameless services and then wrote instructions to Polish spies might reasonably be regarded with suspicion. But suspicion of what?
Eric Ambler
#9. In the lobby of the visitor center, the glass doors had been shattered, and a cold gray mist blew through the cavernous main hall. A sign that read WHEN DINOSAURS RULED THE EARTH dangled from one hinge, creaking in the wind.
Michael Crichton
#10. It was the day without a yesterday, and the world was so new the paint was still wet on the flowers, the meadows were wrapped up in a glossy cellophane of dew, and freshly budded leaves dangled like shiny price-tags from the trees.
Jaxy Mono
#11. From the driver's side, one of Echo's jean-clad legs dangled.
"I've got a hard-on just looking at her, man," said Isaiah as we strolled up the drive.
"You're ate up," I replied, hoping he meant the car, not Echo. I'd hate to throw down with someone I considered family.
Katie McGarry
#12. Do you know what it's like to want something so badly, to need it, to feel like you can't go on without it, only to have it dangled right in front of your face? That torture, that mental torment, is worse than any physical pain you may perceive, angel
J.M. Darhower
#13. To pile on the agony, once we reached Shantytown-a collection of shacks around the Exhibition that fed off the scraps of rich tourists - the ribbon on my bonnet decided today was the day it wanted freedom. It dangled before my face in a taunting display of rebellion.
Susan Dennard
#14. The great 'New York Times' columnist Dave Anderson famously slept one year in a child's race-car bed. There he was, Pulitzer Prize and all, snoring as his feet dangled over the rear tires of Lightning McQueen.
Willie Geist
#15. I can't wait to have words with the Gray King when this shit is all finished," Locke whispered. "There's a few things I want to ask him. Philosophical questions. Like, 'How does it feel to be dangled out a window by a rope tied around your balls, motherfucker?
Scott Lynch
#16. A single red bucket dangled from a single spoke like the last fruit of summer, or like autumn's final leaf.
Karen Thompson Walker
#17. If you went through life refusing all the bait dangled in front of you, that would be no life at all. No changes would be made and you would have nothing to fight against. Life would be dull as ditchwater.
Alan Sillitoe
#18. It was taunted as reality. It was dangled as a carrot. In terms of people's hopes and dreams, to say that that is less of a reality than the daily grind they find themselves in is maybe not correct.
Martin Mull
#19. Pleasure is the carrot dangled to lead the ass to market; or the precipice.
Robinson Jeffers
#20. That is how I felt, watching the musicians play. I couldn't stand it. The everyday lack of my music was like a toothache I had grown used to. I could live with it. But having what I wanted dangled in front of me was more than I could bear.
Patrick Rothfuss
#21. Arabella dangled her legs out of the bedroom window and closed her eyes. She felt a butterfly brush against her knee, rubbed her skin against the mortar and bricks, drank in the warmth of the morning sunshine on her face, her arms, her feet.
Pauline Fisk
#22. It would not be fair to say that the fire stole my faith, since in truth it has been slipping away from me all my life, flipping between my fingers like a shiny little minnow
such a far cry from the trophy salmon that dangled from my father's fist.
Elissa Janine Hoole
#23. A Clock stopped
Not the Mantel's
Geneva's farthest skill
Can't put the puppet bowing
That just now dangled still
Emily Dickinson
#24. Everything
the section of comfortable chairs in the middle, the long colourful chains that dangled lights from the ceiling
seemed designed to make you feel like you were part of something larger, without actually being made to feel small.
David Levithan
#25. She didn't need to say that she was going to die sooner or later while he wasn't, because the fact hung over their heads like the sword of Damocles that dangled by a single hair.
Thea Harrison
#26. Nothing could be more fearful than losing one's freedom. To be confined. Never to see a golden cloudburst or rivers of sunlight on dark flowers. never to walk your own cultivated furrows. And the memory dangled over his heart like the sword of Damocles.
Joseph Wambaugh
#27. An equally shaggy tuft of hair dangled from his chin, the classification somewhere between beard, goatee, and flower gone to seed.
Lindsay Buroker
#28. I danced along a colored wind/ Dangled from a rope of sand
Tom Waits
#29. Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries.
George Eliot
#31. And if somehow Marc was serious, I knew that by the time our engagement was announced, I'd be an expert at celebrating. After all, practice makes perfect, and who else had this much practice?
Hilary Grossman
#32. Don't you see?" he said. "This could go on for another five years, another ten years, and then where would we be? You want to grow old waiting for something that's never going to happen? Is that what you want?
Tony Parsons
#33. Basically, I just write whatever story grabs me rather than considering the genre.
Sarah Pinborough
#34. What would you rather be? 52 and look 52, or 52 and look like a 28-year-old lizard?
Bill Burr
#35. We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.
Douglas Coupland
#37. There's no question that any of us who are doing an honest job in government could do a lot better in private industry. During the years I was practicing law as an individual, my salary was a great deal more than it is now.
Bill Scott
#38. Memories cartwheel out of her head & tumble across the floor.
Anthony Doerr
#39. One of the greatest gifts you can give to anyone is the gift of attention
Jim Rohn
#40. Ten percent tithes is unbiblical; God is not interested in numbers.
Felix Wantang
#41. I love this quote uttered by the character Widget in The Night Circus. He credits it to Herr Thiessen but knows it is a literary quote by the another author.
Wine is bottled poetry
Robert Louis Stevenson
#42. Shadow IV. Calm in Storm V. The Wood-Sawyer VI. Triumph VII. A Knock at the Door VIII. A Hand at Cards
Charles Dickens
#43. The incentives are still rotten, and people are still paid to do things they shouldn't be doing. The reforms did not really address the incentives, the system is still dysfunctional and there are still behavioural issues that need to be addressed.
Michael Lewis
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