#hinges

As a small country, both in size and population, our future hinges on the quality of our people. ↗

— Hassanal Bolkiah

#country #future #hinges #our #our people

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

#books #briefcase #cardboard #carry #faux

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. ↗

— Billy Sunday

#before #build #city #closed #doors

Big doors swing on little hinges. ↗

— W. Clement Stone

#doors #hinges #little #swing

A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid. ↗

— J. R. R. Tolkien

#golden #hid #hinges #inside #key

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

#danger #doing #execute #frankly #hinges

Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn. ↗

— B. R. Hayden

#great #hinges #human #love #sympathies

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

#because #call #confusing #end #hinges

I couldn't bear a marriage in which one partner hinges on the other. ↗

— Clive Owen

#hinges #i #marriage #other #partner

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.

#control #forward #foundations #go #hinges