Quotation Explorer - 'Hang'

Happiness is when you fight for souls that barely hang on. - Shannon L. Alder
I, myself, spent 9 years in an insane asylum and never had any suicidal tendencies, but I know that every conversation I had with a psychiatrist during the morning visit made me long to hang myself because I was aware that I could not slit his throat. - Antonin Artaud
I wanna hang a map of the world in my house. Then I'm gonna put pins into all the locations that I've traveled to. But first, I'm gonna have to travel to the top two corners of the map so it won't fall down. - Mitch Hedberg
That time of year thou may'st in me behold, When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,- Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. - William Shakespeare
If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him. - Armand Jean du Plessis Richelieu
I went to the school and put it to William, particularly, that if you find someone you love in life, you must hang onto it, and look after it, and if you were lucky enough to find someone who loved you, then you must protect it. - Diana Princess of Wales
I never married, but if I had done so, I'm sure I'd have divorced the sod a long time ago. Life is simply too short to hang around with annoying people. That may be why I have so few friends. I'm sure my daughter concurs. - Pansy Schneider-Horst
I don't own a cell phone or a pager. I just hang around everyone I know, all the time. If someone wants to get a hold of me, they just say 'Mitch,' and I say 'what?' and turn my head slightly. - Mitch Hedberg
She wore her sexuality with an older woman's ease, and not like an awkward purse, never knowing how to hold it, where to hang it, or when to just put it down. - Zadie Smith
In the darkest sky, stars hang on high; showing us the light of hope and telling us that dreams never die. - Debasish Mridha
You Hang on to your pain like it means something; like it's worth something. Well, let me tell you, it's not worth shit, so let it go. Infinite Possibilities and all you can do is whine.""Well, what am I supposed to do?""What do you think? You can do anything, you lucky bastard; You're alive! - Nancy Oliver
The matter came up for judicial investigation, but as might have been expected, the white people concluded it was unnecessary to wait the result of the investigation—that it was preferable to hang the accused first and try him afterward. - Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Hang in there. It is astonishing how short a time it can take for very wonderful things to happen. - Frances Hodgson Burnett
I don't trust humans that always go out to take calls, the way i don't trust humans that hang around bars and refuse to drink. - z.g.barwa
Little girls who hang around with vampires need to get used to dead things...In fact, little girls who hang around with vampires already are with dead things. - Vivian Vande Velde
Don't hang with negative people. They will pull you down with them. Instead, invite them into your light and together you will both shine strong. - L.F. Young
Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child.He needs guidance.If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent. - Bette Davis
We are a god- fearing nation of forgivers. You may have bombed our hotels & killed our people, we will still not hang you. If we cannot give life, who are we to take one? No matter how heinous the crime, we do not judge. We live & let live. - Andy Paula
People will tell you that writing is too difficult, that it's impossible to get your work published, that you might as well hang yourself. Meanwhile, they'll keep writing and you'll have hanged yourself. - John Gardner
In all things it is a good idea to hang a question mark now and then on the things we have taken for granted. - Bertrand Russell
... you can't start with a democracy. You have to work up through stuff like tyranny and monarchy first. That way people are so relived when they get to democracy that they hang on to it. - John Steinbeck
When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and use it to hang your troubles. - Matshona Dhliwayo
If your success is not amazing to your critics, it disturbs, infuriates, and frustrates them, and if they're not careful; may go hang themselves and go to hell. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Not so long ago we were all a tightly knit group of friends. Too bad someone had ripped apart the stitches that held us together, unraveling the cozy blanket of our friendship and leaving just enough strands to hang ourselves with. - E.J. Stevens
I tried to hang myself with a bungee cord. I kept almost dying. - Steven Wright
The chances of finding out what’s really going on in the universe are so remote, the only thing to do is hang the sense of it and keep yourself occupied. - Douglas Adams
There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse than worthless; no book that is not worth preserving, if its existence may be tolerated; as there may be some men whom it may be proper to hang, but none should be suffered to starve. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
It's precarious to hang onto the veracity of memory because its edges are smoothed by the river of time. - Khang Kijarro Nguyen
The trouble with most of our prayers is that we give them as if we were picking up the phone and ordering groceries - we place our order and hang up. - Gordon B. Hinckley
With great love comes occasions of pain. You can't skip the pain; without it, you would never know what a precious thing love is. You wouldn't know to hang onto it. You wouldn't know to fight for it. You embrace the pain because the love makes it all worthwhile. - Theresa Smith
As we make our way through life there are often many challenges which we must face alone. And, in those darkest moments we may find an unexpected strength to continue moving forward. Hang on to that strength. - Michael A. Contés II
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves. - Zelda Fitzgerald
Writing is like painting. You sketch it, add colour, add depth and detail. You give it a final layer and then hang it proudly. - Kia Carrington-Russell
The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope. - Karl Marx
We all have our times of anger. It’s when we hang onto that anger it becomes a poison to our heart and mind. - Ron Baratono
Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines. - Satchel Paige
Possession is the motivation that has hang up / the god-damn nation. - Eugene McDaniels
. . . the mysteries, on belief in which theology would hang the destinies of mankind, are cunningly devised fables whose origin and growth are traceable to the age of Ignorance, the mother of credulity. - Edward Clodd
I wanted a woman who could get me out of a Third World prison. Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful. - Jeff Bezos
All words are pegs to hang ideas on. - Henry Ward Beecher
She always says I'm the best friend that she's ever had... how do you hang up on someone who needs you that bad? ~From 'Laura' on The Nylon Curtain - Billy Joel
There were so many things a tree could do: add color, provide shade, drop fruit, or become a children's playground, a whole sky universe to climb and hang from; an architecture of food and pleasure, that was a tree. - Ray Bradbury
We must, indeed, all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately. - Benjamin Franklin
You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that single fleeting moment when you feel alive. - Merce Cunningham
If you feel unwanted or unappreciated where you are or by those you're with, it only means you're in the wrong place or with the wrong people. Hang in there. Someone else will see you for the true gift you are. - LK Hunsaker
Smart people still enjoy wide open spaces, much more even than their less bright neighbors, but when they hang with friends they're less happy. One theory as to why is that they feel like they're wasting time. - Satoshi Kanazawa
Today must be a Thursday. I could never get the hang of Thursdays. - Douglas Adams
Sometimes things do not go the way one wanted them to go... At times like this, one would wish that one had not dreamt so much. Just hang in there... destination is just a mile away. - Hari Kumar K
A happy childhood can't be cured. Mine'll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that's all, instead of a noose. - Hortense Calisher
Hope and Memory have one daughter and her name is Art, and she has built her dwelling far from the desperate field where men hang out their garments upon forked boughs to be banners of battle. O beloved daughter of Hope and Memory, be with me for a while. - W.B. Yeats
Try listening to yourself sometime, alone in a transient room in a strange town. The worst is when you draw a blank, and the ash-blonde ghosts of the past carry on long twittering long-distance calls with your inner ear, and there's no way to hang up. - Ross Macdonald
I will not hesitate.I will not hang back.I will go and offer my heart, for it is what I have to give... - Kate Mullane Robertson
A person that doesn't know their worth will never know yours. Therefore, the longer you hang onto hope that they will finally see your worth is the moment you start to depreciate in value. - Shannon L. Alder
So when the moon's only partly full, you only feel a little wolfy?" "You could say that.""Well, you can go ahead and hang your head out the car window if you feel like it.""I'm a werewolf, not a golden retriever. - Cassandra Clare
Matty just rolled his eyes and walked over to his older brother. "Why is it when everyone thinks they're on their death bed, they suddenly find Jesus?"Jayne shrugged and replied, "Because that's where he likes to hang out? - Nonjon
The big thieves hang the little ones. - Czech Proverb
We must indeed all hang together, or, most assuredly, we shall hang separately. - Benjamin Franklin
It is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree -- make sure you understand the fundamental principles, ie the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves/details or there is nothing for them to hang on to. - Elon Musk
Under certain circumstances the fateful decisions in life, sometimes even in matters of life and death, are made with an almost indifferent ease. While the little things-for instance, the way people hang on to what is over-seem so important. - Peter Høeg
Girls like you want to cut guy's nuts off and hang 'em from your rearview mirror. - Simone Elkeles
When people read his books they have an uncontrollable desire to hang the author in the town square. I can’t think of a higher honor for a writer. - Roberto Bolaño
Wear scarlet! Tear the green lemonsoff the tree! I don't wantto forget who I am, what has burned in me,and hang limp and clean, an empty dress - - Denise Levertov
Don’t hang onto anything too tightly all things must change and you have to allow room for them to grow and blossom. - Rachael Bermingham
Democracy is not something that you believe in, or something that you hang your hat on. It's something that you do, you participate. Without participation, democracy crumbles and fails. If you participate, you win, and the future is yours. - Abbie Hoffman
Where you hang your feelings is where you hang your focus. - Shannon L. Alder
If the thought of leaving a relationship makes you want to hang your head in shame, why ever would you want to walk out the door? You are obviously missing something. - Jennifer Megan Varnadore
I’ve drawn this as a circle because the seasons will come and go. Joy always leads to another season of romance . . . which always leads to another season of trouble . . . which always leads to disillusionment . . . which always leads to more joy— if you hang in there. - Kurt Bubna
Hang on to hope in any hardship. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Believe in human beings - not all are good, but deep down all can be. But that doesn't mean you need to hang around crappy people and try to turn them around. - Jonas Eriksson
If you're fighting moodiness and depression you don't want to hang around a bunch of other moody and depressed people. - Joyce Meyer
In hard times, hang on hope. - Lailah Gifty Akita
We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends. - Eric Hoffer
Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air. - Pablo Neruda
Some photographers could vomit on a piece of paper and call it art, you know... Hang it in the Guggenheim, or whatever. Sell a print for two hundred pounds? But I can't do that. I just-- Maybe I have too much respect for walls... or something. - Pansy Schneider-Horst
The introvert's anthem for not wanting to hang out is 'It's not you; it's me. - Criss Jami
I hang around kids so people will assume when I act like one it's because I'm babysitting. - Richelle E. Goodrich
your relationship with air—that’s key. You can’t break up with air. You’re kind of stuck together. Only slightly less crucial is water. And then food. You can’t be dropping food to hang with someone else. You need to strike up an agreement with it. - Ned Vizzini
The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them. - Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. - Bertrand Russell
Wisdom of a person is his ability to see beyond the visible ground and never let an unsound, cunning people to hang around. - Anuj Somany
If you have to hang a man you could have put on a better trail, you aren't entitled to own a rope. - James Hickey
Vlad was sexting Elizabeth a picture of his pulă rigiditate, while he told Mina. I vould like totally hang up on the dude. He’s no Baldwin." Bats 2015 - Fred Barnett
Peter Pastmaster and the absurdly youthful colonel of the new force were drawing up a list of suitable officers in Bratts Club. 'Most of war seems to consist of hanging about,' he said. 'Let's at least hang about with our own friends. - Evelyn Waugh
We'll either hang together or we'll hang separately. - Benjamin Franklin
There were so many things a tree could do: add color, provide shade, drop fruit or become a children's playground, a whole sky universe to climb and hang from; an architecture of food and pleasure, that was a tree. - Ray Bradbury
They want to be stimulated. They want to read something that can get under their skin and hang out there for a while. - Alistair Cross
Abuse really is its own alphabet. Those who have not gone through it cannot understand it fully. The echos of violence hang in subconscious long after the threat is gone. - Michelle Franklin
When you get to the end of your rope tie a knot and hang on.
Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits. - Diane Ackerman
Once you’re on the negative side of the house, you're more accessible to the rooms where other negative moods hang out—irritability, frustration and anger. You're not directly there, but it's a short walk. - Simon Rego
Well, there are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the farce. - Mark Twain
One of the disadvantages to having a choice is the inevitability to hang oneself on freedoms rope. - Donna Lynn Hope
All the reasons you fell in love are still there, but perhaps buried under worries and responsibility. Find them again, then hang in there. Truly, the best is yet to come. - Laurie Paige
In the darkest sky, stars hang on high; showing us the light of hope and telling us that dreams never die, don’t see the darkness, wait for the morning sun. - Debasish Mridha
The slogans hang on and press on have solved and will continue to solve the problems of humanity. - Ogwo David Emenike
Sometimes life gets weird. Hang in there, it gets better. - Tanner Patrick
We must hang together, gentlemen...else, we shall most assuredly hang separately. - Benjamin Franklin
When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
Why don't I just give you a pair of my panties to hang around your neck? Then whenever you feel jealous, you can wave them at whoever's pissing you off. - Jeaniene Frost
Honestly, if you're looking for love and you're not too choosy, hang around a hardware store fingering screws. - Marian Keyes
Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliancy and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the ever lasting and sanctified bulldoggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold.
In history as in life it is success that counts. Start a political upheaval and let yourself be caught, and you will hang as a traitor. But place yourself at the head of a rebellion and gain your point, and all future generations will worship you as the Father of their Country.
Leaves, while they live, hang together; dying, they fall one by one. - Marty Rubin
Why, Sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story, your impatience would be so much fretted that you would hang yourself. But you must read him for the sentiment, and consider the story as only giving occasion to the sentiment. - Samuel Johnson
There comes a time in a man's life when he hears the call of the sea. If the man has a brain in his head, he will hang up the phone immediately. - Dave Barry
Hang on! You're about to hang on to the "finish line" ribbon. - Steven Chopade
Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off. - Carl Jung
I think I've discovered the secret of life -- you just hang around until you get used to it. - Charles M. Schulz
Legislating morality grows big government immensely, and helps fashion the noose the government will use to ultimately hang you by. - A.E. Samaan
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. - Aesop
I will help build your museumWhen you run out of space to hang your workYou can hang your work in mine - Darnell Lamont Walker
When failure is hard to take, pain becomes unbearable and you don’t see any way out. Hang on there, its darkest hour that indicates the advent of light. - Evan Smith
Thank God for all of your short comings because it gives the people who don’t belong in your life something to hang their insecurities on as they drift away in a cloud of delusional perfection. - Carl Henegan
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