Top 123 Hinges Quotes & Sayings

As soon as you open your mind to doing things differently, the doors of opportunity practically fly off their hinges.

Success in business hinges mostly on the ability to get the important things done.

The world is seldom so simple that it hinges on us alone.

The idea that the Hispanic vote hinges on one issue - immigration - is the most ridiculous and patronizing notion.

The door to a balanced success opens widest on the hinges of hope and encouragement.

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.

There's not a woman in the book, the plot hinges on unkindness to animals, and the black characters mostly drown by Chapter 29.

Little hinges swing big doors.

The ability for a group of people to do remarkable things hinges on how well those people can pull together as a team.

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

The truth is humbling, terrifying, and often exhilarating. It blows the doors off the hinges and fills the world with fresh air.

Turn on its noiseless hinges, delicate sleep!

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.

The premise of anything you do - whether it's writing a song or any business - is ultimately that it hinges heavily on your belief in the thing that you're doing and promoting and selling. It's a reflection of who you are in a very deep way.

It's so weird how our existence hinges on just absolute crazy chance, but it feels so essential. It's like, 'Nothing would be here if you weren't here,' because you are the centre of your universe.

Swinging on delicate hinges the autumn leaf almost off the stem.

Should the poor be flattered? No; let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, and crook the pregnant hinges of the knee where thrift may follow fawning.

The Internet, as a First Amendment medium, hinges on free expression, and that means free advertising.

Learning to love differently is hard, love with the hands wide open, love with the doors banging on their hinges, the cupboard unlocked, the windroaring and whimpering in the rooms.

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

Back on its golden hinges The gate of Memory swings, And my heart goes into the garden And walks with the olden things.

Still, despite all our noise, this universe hinges on a melody, that’s the dismal truth of it. Oh, we can propagandize all we wish, it doesn’t change the fabric of things. This universe was not made for the fallen, only the redeemed.

Everything hinges on how you look at things

Big doors swing on little hinges.

The groundsell speakes not save what it heard at the hinges.

...our happiness hinges not on good luck; it hinges on peace of heart.

The Bookshop has a thousand books, All colors, hues, and tinges, And every cover is a door That turns on magic hinges.

Rare is the election campaign that truly hinges on a single issue.

We all act as hinges-fortuitous links between other people.

It hinges on oil. Europeans feel they handled the boycott after the Yom Kippur War [1973] very badly. The Arabs need to sell oil; otherwise they cannot live.

Simplicity hinges as much on cutting nonessential features as on adding helpful ones.

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

It is curious to look back and realize upon what trivial and apparently coincidental circumstances great events frequently turn as easily and naturally as a door on its hinges.

Not to oversimplify what football coaches do, but their success or failure hinges on concepts that aren't foreign to any coach.

History is an illogical record. It hinges on nothing. It is a story that changes, and has accidents, and recovers with scars.

Most of the time, when I get an idea that hinges on some science 'thing,' it will have been because of something I read or encountered months or years earlier rather than in the last few days.

On a sudden open fly With impetuous recoil and jarring sound Th' infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder.

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.

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.

There's nothing like a song about lost love to remind you how everything precious can slip from the hinges where you've hung it so careful.

Most disability charity hinges on that notion - that you need to send your money in quick before all these poor, pitiful people die. Peddling pity brings in the bucks, yo.

In the final analysis, the whole cause of world revolution hinges on the revolutionary struggles of the Asian, African and Latin American people who make up the overwhelming majority of the world's population.

PANTALOONS, n. A nether habiliment of the adult civilized male. The garment is tubular and unprovided with hinges at the points of flexion. Supposed to have been invented by a humorist. Called trousers by the enlightened and pants by the unworthy.

It's kind of funny...the moments on which life hinges. I think growing up you always imagine your life - your success - depends on your family and how much money they have, where you go to college, what sort of job you can pin down, starting salary...But it doesn't, you know. You wouldn't believe this, but life hinges on a couple of seconds you never see coming. And what you decide in those few seconds determines everything from then on... And you have no idea what you'll do until you're there.

Choices are the hinges of destiny.

The doors of opportunity swing on the hinges of opposition!

Our very long-term prospective hinges on making the best possible wine we can.

To the optimist all doors have handles and hinges; to the pessimist, all doors have locks and latches.

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

He didn't try to take the net off its hinges with that header.

You don't go into coaching if you're not willing to step into that moment and go, 'OK, this is what it's going to take, and this is why you do it.' Everything hinges on winning and losing, right?

Most gothics are overplotted novels whose success or failure hinges on the author's ability to make you believe in the characters and partake of the mood.

Heaven open'd wide Her ever during gates, harmonious sound, On golden hinges moving.

May the hinges of friendship never rust, nor the wings of love lose a feather.

Our nation's continued prosperity hinges on our ability to solve environmental problems and sustain the natural resources on which we all depend.

Religion hinges upon faith, politics hinges upon who can tell the most convincing lies or maybe just shout the loudest, but science hinges upon whether its conclusions resembe what actually happens.

Good actions are the invisible hinges on the doors of heaven.

Everything hinges on education. Without it, you can't advocate for proper health care, for housing, for a civil rights bill that ensures your rights.

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

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!