Cling Quotes
Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true Cling to it long enough, and it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor. - Robert Frost
It?s a wonder I haven?t abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart. - Anne Frank, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, July 15, 1944
Anyone who clings to the historically untrue - and thoroughly immoral - doctrine that violence never settles anything I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler would referee. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forgot this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and there freedoms. - Robert Heinlein
Many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view. - George Lucas
Have you ever seen an inchworm crawl up a leaf or a twig, and then, clinging to the very end, revolve in the air, feeling for something, to reach something That’s like me. I am trying to find something out there beyond the place on which I have footing. - Albert P. Ryder
Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche