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  • Mysteries of attraction could not always be explained through logic. Sometimes the fractures in two separate souls became the very hinges that held them together.

    Two   Soul   Together  
    Lisa Kleypas (2011). “The Devil In Winter: Number 3 in series”, p.90, Hachette UK
  • The crisis that the world finds itself in as it swings on the hinge of a new millennium is located in something deeper than particular ways of organizing political systems and economies.

    Huston Smith (2009). “Why Religion Matters: The Fate of the Human Spirit in an Age of Disbelief”, p.1, Harper Collins
  • The Bookshop has a thousand books, All colors, hues, and tinges, And every cover is a door That turns on magic hinges.

    Book   Doors   Color  
  • The solution of the Monty Hall problem hinges on the concept of information, and more specifically, on the relationship between added information and probability.

    Hans Christian Von Baeyer (2004). “Information: The New Language of Science”, p.70, Harvard University Press
  • This, more than anything else, is what I have never understood about your people. You can roll dice, and understand that the whole game may hinge on one turn of a die. You deal out cards, and say that all a man's fortune for the night may turn upon one hand. But a man's whole life, you sniff at, and say, what, this naught of a human, this fisherman, this carpenter, this thief, this cook, why, what can they do in the great wide world? And so you putter and sputter your lives away, like candles burning in a draft.

    Night   Men   Hands  
    Robin Hobb (2014). “The Farseer Trilogy 3-Book Bundle: Assassin's Apprentice, Royal Assassin, Assassin's Quest”, p.1021, Del Rey
  • The doors of opportunity swing on the hinges of opposition!

  • The common notions that we find in credit around us and infused into our souls by our fathers' seed, these seem to be the universal and natural ones. Whence it comes to pass that what is off the hinges of custom, people believe to be off the hinges of reason.

    Father   Believe   People  
    Michel de Montaigne (1979). “Essays”
  • The atonement, or forgiveness of sin once and for all achieved on the cross, weighs in, and heavily. But the atonement is confirmed, ratified, sealed, and made enduringly good by virtue of Christ's rising from death. Our justification hinges on a risen life, present in us now because Christ is present with us now.

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

    Keys   Treasure   Golden  
    J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit: 75th Anniversary Edition”, p.105, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • 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.

    Stories   World   Kind  
    "Staying Awake with Dan Chaon". Interview with Clare Stein, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 6, 2012.
  • [Cole Porter] sang like a hinge.

  • I wanted the past to go away, I wanted to leave it, like another country; I wanted my life to close, and open like a hinge, like a wing, like the part of the song where it falls down over the rocks: an explosion, a discovery; I wanted to hurry into the work of my life; I wanted to know, whoever I was, I was alive for a little while.

    Country   Song   Fall  
    Mary Oliver (1986). “Dream Work”, p.3, Atlantic Monthly Press
  • Noon - is the Hinge of Day-.

    Noon   Hinges  
    Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1205, Delphi Classics
  • Even as the angry vengeful thoughts boiled through me, I saw the sin of them. Jesus Christ had died for this man; was I going to ask for more? Lord Jesus, I prayed, forgive me and help me to forgive him....Jesus, I cannot forgive him. Give me your forgiveness....And so I discovered that it is not on our forgiveness any more than on our goodness that the world's healing hinges, but on His. When He tells us to love our enemies, He gives along with the command, the love itself.

    Jesus   Healing   Men  
  • The stuff of life turned out to be not a quivering, glowing, wondrous gel but a contraption of tiny jigs, springs, hinges, rods, sheets, magnets, zippers, and trapdoors, assembled by a data tape whose information is copied, downloaded and scanned.

    Spring   Glowing   Data  
    Steven Pinker (2009). “How the Mind Works”, p.22, W. W. Norton & Company
  • She tastes like nectar and salt. Nectar and salt and apples. Pollen and stars and hinges. She tastes like fairy tales. Swan maiden at midnight. Cream on the tip of a fox’s tongue. She tastes like hope.

    Stars   Apples   Swans  
    Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.79, Hachette UK
  • It has been said that the gate of history turns on small hinges, and so do people's lives. The choices we make determine our destiny.

  • 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.

    Sports   Swings   Doors  
    Billy Sunday (1970). “Billy Sunday speaks”
  • Every year, I might almost say every day, that I live, I seem to see more clearly how all the rest and gladness and power of our Christian life hinges on one thing; and that is, taking God at His word, believing that He really means exactly what He says, and accepting the very words in which He reveals His goodness and grace, without substituting others or altering the precise modes and tenses which He has seen fit to use.

  • You have no idea how much of the inefficiency of mankind comes from thinking about the wrong-doings of others, and of ourselves. There is nothing more miserable than to feel that by some mistake in life you have not amounted to what you might have, and that your misfortunes all hinge on that mistake.

    Emma Curtis Hopkins (2012). “Scientific Christian Mental Practice”, p.172, Jazzybee Verlag
  • Death is only an old door Set in a garden wall; On quiet hinges it gives, at dusk When the thrushes call. Along the lintel are green leaves, Beyond, the light lies still; Very weary and willing feet Go over that sill. There is nothing to trouble any heart; Nothing to hurt at all. Death is only an old door In a garden wall.

    Hurt   Wall   Lying  
  • Don't be stupid. You're a child. You don't know what it means to be in love." And she flung open the car door as if she wished she had the strength to rip it from the hinges, and stalked off to the house through the rain. That night, I lay in bed, troubled by what she'd said, blocking out the sounds of argument from my parents' room. Was love what my parents had? Yelling at eachother, worrying about money? Never smiling? Never happy? If that was love, then I didn't want it.

    Children   Block   Rip  
    Barry Lyga (2009). “Boy Toy”, p.317, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Simplicity hinges as much on cutting nonessential features as on adding helpful ones.

  • There are no little things. "Little things," so called, are the hinges of the universe.

    "Ruth Hall and Other Writings".
  • If you were going to make sculptures of them, the swivel poems would be disparate objects all attached with hinges and the prose poems would be small sheep wrapped in extra wool.

    Sheep   Wool   Would Be  
    Source: www.raintaxi.com
  • Back on its golden hinges The gate of Memory swings, And my heart goes into the garden And walks with the olden things.

    Memories   Heart   Garden  
    Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.127, Delphi Classics
  • But I, in the chilling twilight stand and wait At the portcullis, at thy castle gate, Longing to see the charmed door of dreams Turn on its noiseless hinges, delicate sleep!

    Dream   Twilight   Sleep  
    Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1911). “The writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich”
  • After the door of a woman's heart has once swung on its silent hinges, a man thinks he can prop it open with a brick and go away and leave it.

    Heart   Men   Thinking  
    Myrtle Reed (2012). “The Spinster Book”, p.69, tredition
  • I could envision it all to clearly: Stuart or Debbie finding the dented door off its hinges, lying in the snow. "She came in, ravaged the boy, stole plastic bags, and ripped off the door in her escape," the police would say in the APB. "Probably making her way to bust her parents out of jail.

    Lying   Boys   Doors  
  • The hinge of history is on the door of a Bethlehem stable.

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