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[Cole Porter] sang like a hinge.
Big doors swing on little hinges.
Everything hinges on how you look at things
How silently the heart pivots on its hinge.
Its the hinge that squeaks that gets the grease
The world is seldom so simple that it hinges on us alone.
The groundsell speakes not save what it heard at the hinges.
He didn't try to take the net off its hinges with that header.
Rare is the election campaign that truly hinges on a single issue.
I couldn't bear a marriage in which one partner hinges on the other.
& these haters try to knock me but they can't knock me off the hinges.
...our happiness hinges not on good luck; it hinges on peace of heart.
Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.
Our very long-term prospective hinges on making the best possible wine we can.
Method is the very hinge of business, and there is no method without punctuality.
There are no little things. "Little things," so called, are the hinges of the universe.
As a small country, both in size and population, our future hinges on the quality of our people.
The Internet, as a First Amendment medium, hinges on free expression, and that means free advertising.
I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on.
Power is the pivot on which everything hinges. He who has the power is always right; the weaker is always wrong.
The idea that the Hispanic vote hinges on one issue - immigration - is the most ridiculous and patronizing notion.
Samsung's future hinges on new businesses, new products and new technologies. We should make our corporate culture more open, flexible and innovative.
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.
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.
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.
Most of the time, when I get an idea that hinges on some science 'thing,' it will have been because of something I read or encountered months or years earlier rather than in the last few days.
At Kansas City, Kansas, before the saloons were closed, they were getting ready to build an addition to the jail. Now the doors swing idly on the hinges and there is nobody to lock in the jails.
You don't go into coaching if you're not willing to step into that moment and go, 'OK, this is what it's going to take, and this is why you do it.' Everything hinges on winning and losing, right?
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.
It's so weird how our existence hinges on just absolute crazy chance, but it feels so essential. It's like, 'Nothing would be here if you weren't here,' because you are the centre of your universe.
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.
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.
The premise of anything you do - whether it's writing a song or any business - is ultimately that it hinges heavily on your belief in the thing that you're doing and promoting and selling. It's a reflection of who you are in a very deep way.
Proof of the 'hysterical strength' phenomenon is still hearsay, mostly because it's impossible to recreate those conditions in a lab. That said, try turning a doorknob when the bass drops on 'Skyfall' without ripping that door clean off of its hinges.
Just as the earth is a planet in its own right, so each of us is an individual in our own sphere of habitation. We are individuals, but we live in families and communities where order provides a system of harmony that hinges on obedience to principles.
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.
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.
I do shop online! But I'm shopping online mostly in the home categories - One Kings Lane and Gilt. At a lot of architectural websites, I buy a lot of hardware for cabinetry like hinges and things like that from England. So, you know, for me, I shop at Net-A-Porter, but I don't really shop that much for clothing online.