Top 100 Quotes About Hinges
#1. There's a real danger in doing a sequel. There are some benefits, but that all hinges on how well you execute. Quite frankly, most sequels don't execute well.
Donnie Wahlberg
#2. Our happiness hinges not on good luck; it hinges on peace of heart.
David Steindl-Rast
#3. If you were going to make sculptures of them, the swivel poems would be disparate objects all attached with hinges and the prose poems would be small sheep wrapped in extra wool.
Matthea Harvey
#4. Simplicity hinges as much on cutting nonessential features as on adding helpful ones.
Walter Bender
#5. 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
#6. There are no little things. Little things are the hinges of the universe.
Fanny Fern
#7. I couldn't bear a marriage in which one partner hinges on the other.
Clive Owen
#8. The Internet, as a First Amendment medium, hinges on free expression, and that means free advertising.
Jerry Yang
#9. The first principle of value that we need to rediscover is this: that all reality hinges on moral foundations. In other words, that this is a moral universe, and that there are moral laws of the universe just as abiding as the physical laws. (from "Rediscovering Lost Values")
Martin Luther King Jr.
#10. Would it help if I told you I am a little rusty when it comes to having a relationship?"
"A little? They can hear your hinges squeaking all the way on Mars," she said irreverently.
Jacquelyn Frank
#11. One can only call that youth healthful which refuses to be reconciled to old ways and which, foolishly or shrewdly, combats the old. This is nature's charge and all progress hinges upon it.
Anton Chekhov
#12. suddenly the window flew open, swung back and forth on its hinges, as if something was about to come in, and she waited in dread for what that something might be.
Edna O'Brien
#13. Since life comes up and emergencies happen, making success possible hinges on two things: being choosy about each day's priority list, and developing an accountability system that works.
Laura Vanderkam
#14. ... the doors of perception are hanging crazily off their hinges these days.
Kate Atkinson
#15. Contrary to popular opinion, we are all a vast brotherhood of human beings whose very survival hinges not on what we keep, but on what we give. And it is in the giving that we not only survive to live another day, but we thrive to celebrate another day.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#16. There's nothing like a song about lost love to remind you how everything precious can slip from the hinges where you've hung it so careful.
Sue Monk Kidd
#17. To love is a dare,
when hope and despair,
are gates upon it hinges.
Lang Leav
#18. Everything in war hinges on what you know of your adversary's skills and asset.
Marie Rutkoski
#19. The ability of a group of people to do remarkable things hinges on how well those people pull together as a team.
Simon Sinek
#20. As a small country, both in size and population, our future hinges on the quality of our people.
Hassanal Bolkiah
#21. Whatever you're concerned about will lead you to what you'll worship. And on what you worship hinges your destiny.
Russell D. Moore
#23. 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
#24. I don't know why, but for a second, my brain was sure that it would be Anna, that she'd be pounding the door down off its hinges with blackveined fists, ready to catch me with my pants down. But we were just doing dishes. My pants are firmly affixed.
Kendare Blake
#25. The world is seldom so simple that it hinges on us alone.
Rachel Hartman
#26. History is an illogical record. It hinges on nothing. It is a story that changes, and has accidents, and recovers with scars.
Gretel Ehrlich
#27. The ethical argument regarding abortion hinges on the question of when life begins. Some believe life begins at forty.
Kevin Nealon
#28. Smolin's idea, expounded in The Life of the Cosmos, hinges
Richard Dawkins
#29. Without warning, I heard the heavy door behind me creak slowly open upon its rusted hinges.
H.P. Lovecraft
#30. 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
#31. If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#32. 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
#33. Success in business hinges mostly on the ability to get the important things done.
William Feather
#34. He didn't try to take the net off its hinges with that header.
Andy Townsend
#35. The key to happiness is to listen to campy Parisian music and smile at a bird. It hinges on insanity, but it works.
Erica Goros
#36. After the door of a woman's heart has once swung on its silent hinges, a man thinks he can prop it open with a brick and go away and leave it.
Myrtle Reed
#37. We all act as hinges-fortuitous links between other people.
Penelope Lively
#38. The less a writer discusses his work and himself the better. The master chef slaughters no chickens in the dining room; the doctor writes prescriptions in Latin; the magician hides his hinges, mirrors, and trapdoors with the utmost care.
Jack Vance
#39. It was a strange room, the door hanging off its hinges, and yet a telephone. But its last occupant was a harlot, long past her best, which had been scarlet.
Samuel Beckett
#40. open, hinges broken, wood shards raining all around
Gena Showalter
#41. In the final analysis, the whole cause of world revolution hinges on the revolutionary struggles of the Asian, African and Latin American people who make up the overwhelming majority of the world's population.
Lin Biao
#42. People say opportunity knocks, but when it comes to success you really have to break the door off of its hinges before it even gets there.
Robert DiLauro
#43. To the optimist all doors have handles and hinges; to the pessimist, all doors have locks and latches.
William Arthur Ward
#44. The success of a business hinges entirely on its ability to generate cash. If a business cannot generate enough cash to grow, or at least sustain its operations, it has to save its behind by borrowing money, selling more stock, or shedding assets - none of which are good for investors.
Joel Ponzio
#45. The ability for a group of people to do remarkable things hinges on how well those people can pull together as a team.
Simon Sinek
#46. The battle with the gods thus hinges on our own mortality! Creativity is a yearning for immortality.
Rollo May
#47. It hinges on oil. Europeans feel they handled the boycott after the Yom Kippur War [1973] very badly. The Arabs need to sell oil; otherwise they cannot live.
Manfred Gerstenfeld
#48. Back on its golden hinges The gate of Memory swings, And my heart goes into the garden And walks with the olden things.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#49. There is no law that requires the universe to fill itself with small particles of matter or to produce light and gravity and the other properties on which our existence hinges.
Bill Bryson
#50. Good actions are the invisible hinges on the doors of heaven.
Victor Hugo
#51. 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
#52. Our world hinges on moral foundations. God has made it so. God has made the universe to be based on a moral law. So long as man disobeys it he is revolting against God. That's what we need in the world today: people who will stand for right and goodness.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#53. 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
#54. So," Frosty said as we stood. "I have to ask a personal question, because our next move hinges on your answer."
I tensed, unsure about what he could possibly want to know. "Ask."
"How do you feel about stealing cars?
Gena Showalter
#55. The houses all seemed a little senile, with arthritc hinges and window screens hanging at embarrassing angles.
Barbara Kingsolver
#56. If your plan's success hinges on not getting caught, you need another plan.
Jim Grant
#57. So much of an artist's career hinges on the sense that we are going somewhere, that we are not just trapped by the four walls of wherever we are. For creative sanity, I must believe that if I just do the next right thing, a path will unfold for me.
Julia Cameron
#58. What bothers me most about evolutionary evidence is that it hinges more on faith than faith does.
Gary Kurz
#59. Heaven open'd wide Her ever during gates, harmonious sound, On golden hinges moving.
John Milton
#60. On a sudden open fly With impetuous recoil and jarring sound Th' infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder.
John Milton
#61. A lot hinges on the fact that, in most circumstances, people are not allowed to hit you with a mallet. They put up all kinds of visible and invisible signs that say, 'Do not do this' in the hope that it'll work, but if it doesn't, then they shrug, because there is, really, no real mallet at all.
Terry Pratchett
#62. Some servent with no sense of the symbolic had kept the hinges well-oiled during the years of his absence,as if their marital life had merely been cast into temporary abeyance.
Courtney Milan
#63. The doors of opportunity swing on the hinges of opposition!
Adrian Rogers
#64. So this, I believe, is the central question upon which all creative living hinges: Do you have the courage to bring forth the treasures that are hidden within you?
Elizabeth Gilbert
#66. The history of missions is a history of prayer. Everything vital to the success of the world's evangelization hinges on prayer.
John Mott
#67. Everything hinges on how you look at things
Henry Miller
#68. Did you think you could stop me?" Power shot from me, smacking into the door behind Dawson, blowing it off the hinges and into the house. "I'll burn the world down to save her.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#69. A novel requires a certain kind of world-building and also a certain kind of closure, ultimately. Whereas with a short story you have this sense that there are hinges that the reader doesn't see.
Dan Chaon
#70. Should the poor be flattered? No; let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, and crook the pregnant hinges of the knee where thrift may follow fawning.
William Shakespeare
#71. If I didn't look around it would not be true that somebody had opened the gate with the creaky hinges, and that is a wonderful principle for a man to get hold of. I had got hold of the
Robert Penn Warren
#72. All of life hinges on what one does next, until finally one makes the wrong choice.
Gregory Maguire
#73. Certain empty houses that seemed to stare like the faces of people suffering from terrible mental illness. An empty barn on the outskirts of town, the hayloft door swinging open and closed on rusty hinges, first disclosing darkness, then hiding it, then disclosing it again.
Stephen King
#74. May the hinges of friendship never rust, nor the wings of love lose a feather.
Edward Ramsay
#75. Whether I say to him: "War and Peace is the staging of a determinist vision of history" or "You'd do well to oil the hinges in the garbage room," he will not find that one is any more significant than the other.
Muriel Barbery
#76. The quality of your life hinges on your attitudes and offerings.
Bryant McGill
#77. The Bookshop has a thousand books,
All colors, hues, and tinges,
And every cover is a door
That turns on magic hinges.
Nancy Byrd Turner
#78. The sound of their voices mingled with the whicker of horses, the clank of steel, and the groaning hinges of the great bronze gates to make a strange and fearful music. In the sept they sing for the Mother's mercy but on the walls it's the Warrior they pray to, and all in silence.
George R R Martin
#79. Life hinges on many factors we cannot control. Two of the most important factors, we can control. We can manage our relationships-and what is life but a series of relationships?-and we can correct our mistakes, here on earth within our life span.
Leon Uris
#80. Fuck off," some of them seem to be yelling at coalition forces. A lot hinges on the appropriate military response. "Fuck you" might be risky. "OK, off we fuck, then" might buy some valuable time.
Christopher Hitchens
#81. The groundsell speakes not save what it heard at the hinges.
George Herbert
#82. Diabolical forces are formidable. These forces are eternal, and they exist today. The fairy tale is true. The devil exists. God exists. And for us, as people, our very destiny hinges upon which one we elect to follow.
Ed Warren
#83. There's not a woman in the book, the plot hinges on unkindness to animals, and the black characters mostly drown by Chapter 29.
P. J. O'Rourke
#84. Religion hinges upon faith, politics hinges upon who can tell the most convincing lies or maybe just shout the loudest, but science hinges upon whether its conclusions resembe what actually happens.
Ian Stewart
#85. Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.
B. R. Hayden
#86. Carrying that lumber the forty meters from the forest had left his knuckles blistered, his underarms sopping, but now a few hours of flames had lifted what had taken him months to design, weeks to carry, days to build, all but the nails and rivets, all but the hinges and bolts, all into the sky.
Anthony Marra
#87. And the thing I hate the most is knowing how much hinges on my reaction, how your unburdening can only lead to me being burdened.
David Levithan
#88. The ability for employment benefits to be shared among spouses, the ability to move people who are dependent on visas for trailing spouses, all hinges on being able to deal with families of gay people in the same way that you deal with families of straight people. Otherwise, they can't move around.
Lloyd Blankfein
#89. 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
#90. As soon as you open your mind to doing things differently, the doors of opportunity practically fly off their hinges.
Jay Abraham
#91. The door to a balanced success opens widest on the hinges of hope and encouragement.
Zig Ziglar
#92. I have always believed it my right to have a locked door between me and the world, and to hold the key myself. Now look at it, kicked open. The doors are off their hinges, the portals unguarded, every cover blown.
Mihail Sebastian
#93. PANTALOONS, n. A nether habiliment of the adult civilized male. The garment is tubular and unprovided with hinges at the points of flexion. Supposed to have been invented by a humorist. Called trousers by the enlightened and pants by the unworthy.
Ambrose Bierce
#94. Their rusted hinges let out a pair of screams, for all those who might have slept through the breaking of the lock.
George R R Martin
#95. Most disability charity hinges on that notion - that you need to send your money in quick before all these poor, pitiful people die. Peddling pity brings in the bucks, yo.
Stella Young
#96. But the world hinges on good fathers and those who would be the merchants of confidence.
Michelle Franklin
#97. As three unwavering bands of light, we were simple and separate and beautiful. As
machines, we were flabby bags of ancient plumbing and wiring, of rusty hinges and
feeble springs.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#98. Learning to love differently is hard, love with the hands wide open, love with the doors banging on their hinges, the cupboard unlocked, the windroaring and whimpering in the rooms.
Marge Piercy
#99. Freedom from fear's consuming control over us hinges upon our honestly dealing with what our overwhelming fears are specifically about and then coming to terms with those tedious, often emotionally driven details.
Connie Kerbs
#100. I know death hath ten thousand several doors
For men to take their exits; and 'tis found
They go on such strange geometrical hinges,
You may open them both ways: any way, for heaven-sake
John Webster
