Quotes About Hanging On By A Thread

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

Marie Lu

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

Amy Schumer

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

Kiera Cass

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. ...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

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

Jennifer Estep

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. There isn't a single artist out there, I'm sure, who wouldn't take the most perfect record deal. If the right record deal came along, like, the perfect deal, we'd definitely take it.

Madi Diaz

#12. My killer instinct is so strong that lions call me to take lessons.

Miguel Torres

#13. I think one thing that's important to maintain is a sense of fear, always doubting yourself ... a good dose of insecurity helps your work in some ways.

Gary Larson

#14. 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

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

Samuel Johnson

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

Rafael Palmeiro

#17. I'm a little lamb who's lost in the wood.

Ira Gershwin

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

Alan Titchmarsh

#19. I haven't checked, but I highly suspect that chickens evolved from an egg-laying ancestor, which would mean that there were, in fact, eggs before there were chickens. Genius.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. On Wall Street, fraudulent schemes tend to thrive during economic booms, and to blow up when times turn tough.

James Surowiecki

#25. I chose to not see it because I didn't want to fall in love with her.

Georgia Cates

#26. Used gently, and without the touch of pain.

Lao-Tzu

#27. The study and practice of law ... does not dissolve the obligations of morality or of religion.

John Adams

#28. 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

#29. The ability to meditate successfully is a very unique skill that will help you better weather the storms of life.

Tim McCarthy

#30. The government can give citizens opportunity and it's their responsibility to take advantage of it.

Michael Mandelbaum

#31. 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