Holdfasts Quotes

#1. Farms and holdfasts grew scarcer and smaller as they pressed northward, ever deeper into the darkness of the wolfswood, until finally there were no more roofs to shelter under, and they were thrown back on their own resources.

George R R Martin

#2. The problem is that most of us have limited our imagination to what we have been told is possible - and usually we've been told by people without much experience.

Barbara Sher

#3. As we deal with our fellow men in petty dishonesty or in more daring fraud, so will we deal with God.

Ellen G. White

#4. I had the idea that there were two worlds. There was a real world as I called it, a world of wars and boxing clubs and children'shomes on back streets, and this real world was a world where orphans burned orphans ... I liked the other world in which almost everyone lived. The imaginary world.

Norman Mailer

#5. When I fell out the window, I knew somebody would catch me. That's what I need to tell you: that I knew the loving world was there all the time. -Patrick Ireland of the Columbine massacre

Dave Cullen

#6. Sometimes I was in a mood to write a song as if I was writing in my journal and reveal certain parts of me that I was ready to reveal.

Madonna Ciccone

#7. The avowed aim of all utopian movements is to put an end to history and to establish a final and permanent calm.

Ludwig Von Mises

#8. Several years ago, as I was transitioning from film finance to film production and writing again, someone asked me how long I would try to get back into filmmaking before I gave up? My response was "giving up" was not an option.

Gabriel Campisi

#9. Somehow politicians have become convinced that negative campaigning pays off in elections.

George McGovern

#10. He was a locked box inside which tempests roiled. He was a man enshadowed by himself.

John Connolly