Quotes About Hanging By A Thread

#1. Life. As solid and as strong as a rock one minute, then hanging by a thread the next

Alan Titchmarsh

#2. I'm going to untangle her deadly scheme, even if it leaves my love affair hanging by a thread.

Jennifer Estep

#3. I always wanted to get into the horror genre. I like scary movies. I want to go to the fan shows and sign posters with my head hanging by a thread like a B-movie actress.

Illeana Douglas

#4. My life was on the line here and my career and everything I worked for, it was hanging by a thread.

Rafael Palmeiro

#5. As god is my witness, it was never my intent to throw out the constitution. I thought it was hanging by a thread, and I could save it ... You don't save it by cutting that thread. - President Nielson

Orson Scott Card

#6. As long as the mind is there, your body and your world are there. Your world is mind-made, subjective, enclosed within the mind, fragmentary, temporary, personal, hanging on the thread of memory.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#7. AMENTACEOUS (AMENTA'CEOUS) adj.[amentatus, Lat.]Hanging as by a thread. The pine tree hath amentaceous flowers or katkins.Miller.

Samuel Johnson

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

Amy Schumer

#9. I'm not religious, but I am spiritual. I have my own relationship with a being that I consider to be everywhere. All and everything. I don't need a church or a synagogue or a mosque. I don't need to kneel down, I don't need to stand up, I don't need to be hanging from a thread.

Ron Perlman

#10. One of the greatest hindrances to happiness in the present day is our tendency to standardize our conception of it.

J. E. Buckrose

#11. Even if it means I'll never be the man you give yourself to, I'll always do anything to protect you.

Parker S. Huntington

#12. And high above, depicted in a tower,
Sat Conquest, robed in majesty and power,
Under a sword that swung above his head,
Sharp-edged and hanging by a subtle thread.

Geoffrey Chaucer

#13. Jessie reached for 'Ten Bright Ideas to Light Up Your Sales'. It was on her bedside table, right next to 'Charlotte's Web'. Jessie's hand hovered. She looked longingly at Wilbur and Fern watching Charlotte hanging b a thread.
But this was war, and she couldn't stop to read for fun.

Jacqueline Davies

#14. A man, who does not commit an evil act either, has no opportunity or the stomach.

M.F. Moonzajer

#15. I've had a lot of friends in the business that got out earlier than normal. They tell me they got out too early and that I should make sure I've got all I want before I step aside. When I do get out, there are other things that I want to do with my life.

LaVell Edwards

#16. I wonder if the last shreds of my sanity would've vanished. I feel like I'm hanging on by a thread.

Marie Lu

#17. ...I'm hanging onto my sanity by a thread. I'll have you up against this tree and be inside you in about one second.

Zoe Forward

#18. She has her gown nicely in place tonight, doesn't she? Black velvet and sparkles, not a thread left hanging. Clever girl, this city. Even the sky is her friend.

Terry Brooks

#19. Make sure your worst enemy doesn't live between your two ears.

Laird Hamilton

#20. The pleasure that I take in writing gets me interested in writing a poem. It's not a statement about what I think anybody else should be doing. For me, it's an interesting tension between interior and exterior.

Marilyn Hacker

#21. If we were always conscious of the fact that people precious to us are frighteningly mortal, hanging not even by a thread, but by a wisp of gossamer, perhaps we would be kinder to them and more grateful for the love and friendship they give to us.

Dean Koontz

#22. Maybe she was really good at improv. I couldn't be certain she was nineteen or that her name really was Nora Halliday. Maybe she was like one of those sweaters with an innocent little thread hanging off of it: One pull, the whole thing unraveled.

Marisha Pessl

#23. One thing you learn doing magic tricks for a living is how close every performance of every magic trick is to disaster. There are no robust magic tricks. They're all hanging from a thread - sometimes literally.

Penn Jillette

#24. Now what has happened in our country during the time we have been plunging toward socialism? Are we actually at that point where the Constitution may be hanging by a single thread and we need to step in to save it?

Ernest L. Wilkinson

#25. And my approval is hanging on by a thread as it is.

Kiera Cass

#26. Chance. It weaves through our lives like a golden thread, sometimes knotting, tangling, and breaking along the way. Loose threads are left hanging, but the in and out, the back and forth continues, the weaving goes on. It doesn't stop.

Mary E. Pearson