Pushing forty? She's hanging on for dear life.

Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way.

Change is the only constant. Hanging on is the only sin.

The memory fades, and I’m left hanging on to the ghosts of his words.

God's plan makes you sing about resurrection when your hanging on a cross.

Behold the crucifix; what does it symbolize? Pallid incompetence hanging on a tree.

I was tired of hanging on, taking the torn pieces to make something whole with them.

My guitars, Cadillacs, and hillbilly music Is the only thing that keeps me hanging on.

Life is an ocean, and most everyone's hanging on to some kind of dream to keep afloat.

Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.

Grind it out. Hanging on just one second longer than your competition makes you the winner.

I've been scared and I've liked not hanging on to stuff where I know that I'm in my comfort zone.

I have let things slip, a thirty-year~old cargo boat Stubbornly hanging on to my name and address.

When you launch in a rocket, you're not really flying that rocket. You're just sort of hanging on.

I couldn't stand here, hanging on, when the very thing I held disappeared more with each passing day.

Always leave a sinking ship. There's no virtue in hanging on to losers. And stocks don't have feelings.

Life is a rollercoaster ride and I don't intend on being the one screaming and hanging on for dear life.

Quit hanging on to the handrails . . . Let go. Surrender. Go for the ride of your life. Do it every day.

I'll leave you with one that I have hanging on my office wall, compliments of Nike: Impossible is nothing.

Hanging on to a resentment, someone once said, is like drinking poison and hoping it will kill someone else.

The taste for pleasure attaches us to the present. The concern with our salvation leaves us hanging on the future.

She has been hanging on to the hope of him for so long that she doesn't realize there isn't anything left to hope for.

Man is a natural polygamist: he always has one woman leading him by the nose, and another hanging on to his coattails.

When you're scared, when you're hanging on, when life is hurting you, then you're going to see what you're really made of.

This was the life I was going to be living, everybody separated from everybody else, hanging on for a moment only to be washed away.

Well, it's not just money. I consider myself establishment right now. I'm borderline establishment, I'm hanging on by my toenails - but I'm establishment.

The student ends up lusting after time with the teacher, hanging on her every word, and forgetting that this is about him or her, the student, not the teacher.

I’m so overwhelmed.” – Nick “Most of us are, Nick. Even though we look calm and peaceful on the outside, most of us are barely hanging on by our fingernails.” – Caleb

Don't settle for comfortable misery, a sad state where you're hanging on to what is most predictable and familiar at the risk of letting exciting opportunities pass you by.

We've never managed, either one of us, to get all the way into life. We're hanging on to the outside for all we're worth, convinced we're going to fall off at the next bump.

There's not much in the way of written-down arrangements - just things that Gerry and I have worked out, from playing spontaneously together and hanging on to whatever seems to fall in right.

Can anyone alter fate? All of us combined... or one great figure... or someone strategically placed, who happens to be in the right spot. Chance. Accident. And our lives, our world, hanging on it.

At times it seemed unfair that I should be paid for my work; for driving out in the early morning with the fields glittering under the first pale sunshine and the wisps of mist still hanging on the high tops.

When you're scared, you're still hanging on to life. When you're ready to die, you let it go. A sort of emptying out occurs, a giving up on the world that seems oddly familiar even if you've never done it before.

And there's a period where everyone's buying those and it's really bad because no one is Larry David or Ricky Gervais. And then they don't work and networks stop wanting to buy them, but because they wanted to buy them before the producer wanted to make them, the producers are still hanging on to wanting to make them.

...What is the use of beauty? i have lived my life surrounded by painters, and still I do not know the answer. But i suspect, some days, that beauty helps protect the spirit of mankind, swaddle it and succor it, so that we might survive. Beauty is no end in itself, but if it makes or lives less miserable so that we might be more kind-well, then, lets have beauty, painted on our porcelain, hanging on our walls, ringing through our stories.

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