#cling

Rescue someone unwilling to look after himself, and he will cling to you like a dangerous illness. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#cling #dangerous #himself #illness #like

We live in a disposable society. It's easier to throw things out than to fix them. We even give it a name - we call it recycling. ↗

— Neil LaBute

#disposable #easier #even #fix #give

Even as fog continues to lie in the valleys, so does ancient sin cling to the low places, the depressions in the world consciousness. ↗

— Dewitt Bodeen

#cling #consciousness #continues #depressions #does

After so many changes, I realized I'd better cling to my own family and to what I've got right here. ↗

— Suzy Bogguss

#better #changes #cling #family #got

We cling nervously to the melody, but we don't handle it freely, we don't really make anything new out of it, we merely overload it. ↗

— Johannes Brahms

#cling #freely #handle #make #melody

Excuse me if I'm clinging on to life, but my parents wove me from tight thread. ↗

— Jeanne Calment

#excuse #i #life #me #parents

There's a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you're self-propelled and decide exactly where to go. If you see something that catches your eye to the left, you can veer off there, which isn't so easy in a car, and you can't cover as much ground walking. ↗

— David Byrne

#car #catches #certain #cover #cycling

Why does everyone cling to the masculine imagery and pronouns even though they are a mere linguistic device that has never meant that God is male? ↗

— Carol P. Christ

#device #does #even #everyone #god

A friend of mine - a cameraman at MTV - lost a lot of weight from cycling, and I thought I'd try it, too, thinking whenever you look at a cyclist they all look super-skinny, so hey, why not? But then it turned into such a psychologically satisfying thing. ↗

— Carson Daly

#cycling #cyclist #friend #hey #i

Some people get into this business and they're so afraid to lose anything. They try to protect their position like clinging to a beachhead. These actors end up making really safe choices. I never wanted to go that route. If I go down, I'm going down swinging. ↗

— Matt Damon

#anything #business #choices #clinging #down