Rachel Simmons

There are times in every friendship when you or your friend are too busy to call or are more focused on other relationships. It will hurt, but it's rarely personal. Making it personal usually makes things worse, and being too clingy or demanding can drive a friend even further away. Like people, friendships can get 'overworked' and need to rest.

American Author

Sam Shepard

I feel like the writers that I'm drawn to, the writers that I really cling to, are the writers who seem to be writing out of a desperate act. It's like their writing is part of a survival kit. Those are the writers that I just absolutely cherish and carry with me everywhere I go.

American Playwright

Hugh Grant

I cling to the fantasy that I could have done something more creative. Like actually writing a script, or writing a book. But the awful truth is that I... probably can't!

English Actor

Gareth Gates

I was terrible when I first started skating and was clinging onto the side for dear life, but it's something I'll always have now, and the tour is always so much fun.

British Musician

JPEGMAFIA

Either people cling to the past and refuse to advance their ways, or they're always looking to future and not appreciating what's in front of them right now.

American Musician

John Hurt

To me, nothing ever feels like a sure thing. I cling to that because it's very important you don't ever think anything is a sure thing.

British Actor

Emmanuelle Riva

Love is the essence of life; love touches all of our work. Love never leaves us. It clings to us, and we cling to it.

French Actress

Abraham Lincoln

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

American President

Jeanne Calment

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

French Celebrity

William James

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

American Philosopher

Used when something physically sticks to another, typically by contact.

Physical Contact

Sometimes implies discomfort or undesirable sticking, like being too hot or sweaty.

Negative Emotion

Indicates seeking security or comfort by holding something tightly.

Seeking Comfort

Can suggest desperation when someone is trying not to lose something.

Desperation

Used to describe a strong emotional reliance on something, often irrationally.

Emotional Dependency

Shows reluctance to accept change or new realities.

Refusal to Change

Often used to describe someone who is acting overly dependent or needy.

Neediness

Shows a desire to stay close to someone you care about.

Affection Display

Refers to the physical feeling of something sticking to one's body or hands.

Tactile Sensation

 The lead character in this inner movie, and probably the aspect of consciousness we all cling to most tightly. Let's start with experiences of the world around us, and with the important idea of the brain as a prediction engine. Imagine being a brain. You're locked inside a bony skull, trying to figure what's out there in the world.

Your brain hallucinates...

 and recurved teeth behind the sunfish's cheeks. Even tiny lobster slipper larvae can cling to the bell of a jellyfish and hitch a ride, snacking on the jelly while they preserve their own energy for growth. Small agile fish use the jellies as moving reefs for protection,

How does a jellyfish...

 the rich to avoid a long time in purgatory than it is for the poor he thinks it's way too much about money and too little about god when priests sell letters of indulgence with slogans such as when the coin in the coffin clings the soul from purgatory springs luther

A Fun, Animated History...

 now being split between Rajasthan the place where I was born and Dubai where I grew up and London where I now live it's very interesting to observe the cultural reaction to the Baraka in Dubai I am not fashionable enough I don't do clingy

How I came to love my...

 seen in my life and that day we filmed i think two or three hunts i mean they didn't stop they kept sending these waves at the ice and the ice was spinning around the seal clinging on and then being flipped off it was so dramatic

ONE HOUR Of Amazing...

 But when a British destroyer came to collect the prisoners, they found an unexpected survivor - a black and white cat clinging to a floating plank. For the next several months this cat hunted rats and raised British morale -

The history of the world...

 observed something profound about human nature. Our sense of ownership emerges incredibly early. Why are we so clingy? There's a well-established phenomenon in psychology known as the endowment effect

Why are we so attached...

 clinging to her back and having a pretty rough ride brown lemurs nearly always produce only a single baby very rarely twins and never three or

Sir David Attenborough...

 But a mother and baby have been left behind. The baby must cling on for dear life.

The Most Dramatic...

 she'll sink and drown clinging for life she releases her eggs into the waves

Cling

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