Holding Pattern Quotes

#1. Where there's self importance, there's only a very little bit of you and that little bit is distorted. It's in a holding pattern that is false to what it knows. That holding pattern forbids you, in that little bit of you, from being the rest of you.

John De Ruiter

#2. She's floating outside in the maternal holding pattern all women learn after they have children, one that serves them well after grandchildren come along.

Greg Iles

#3. Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Judith Viorst

#4. Being in love is better than being in jail, a dentist's chair, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia, but not if he doesn't love you back.

Judith Viorst

#5. I realize it's not the best timing-it's only been a month, but life isn't about waiting for perfect timing. If you're not careful, life happens while your stuck in a holding pattern

Lisa Wingate

#6. If you persist in ignoring your intuition, you may find yourself stuck in a permanent holding pattern instead of taking the risks that lead to creative growth.

Nita Leland

#7. Don't let the urgent take the place of the important in your life ... When you and I were putting out the fires of the urgent, the important was again left in a holding pattern.

Charles Hummel

#8. (my whole life a holding pattern, some variation on wait and see)

Katie Cotugno

#9. When you fly to New York, sometimes they put you on hold and you just go round and around in a holding pattern. Sometimes in a concert, I feel other spirits in a holding pattern that they want to land through my heart and through my fingers.

Carlos Santana

#10. When God puts us in a holy holding pattern, it can feel like forever, but God doesn't hold us back to make us suffer. He does it to help us trust Him. He sees what lies ahead and knows what we need to be ready for it.

Lee W. Merrill

#11. If I can be serious now, and I have the feeling I can.

David Letterman

#12. Imagine the power of surfacing what's happening in the world through images, and potentially other types of media in the future, to each and every person who holds a mobile phone.

Kevin Systrom

#13. We're becoming more of a police state, and the government is doing everything it can to protect its secrets.

Kenneth Eade

#14. And what does she mean by love, anyway? People use that word and mean all sorts of things by it.

Jude Morgan

#15. The riches we impart are the only wealth we shall always retain.

Matthew Henry

#16. My temper is not spoilt. I am absolutely non-homicidal. Nor do I ever attack unless I have been attacked first, and then Heaven have mercy upon the attacker, because I don't! I just sharpen my wits on a wooden head as a cat sharpens its claws on the wood legs of a table.

Edith Sitwell

#17. The goal of a passionate artist is to try and make a masterpiece each and every time, yet be wise enough to know you will fall short.

Donato Giancola

#18. I try to just make music that I love, and if I believe in it that's all that matters.

Norah Jones

#19. There is no such thing as a list of reasons. There is either one sufficient reason or a list of excuses.

Robert Breault

#20. Some people are uncomfortable with silences. Not me. I've never cared much for call and response. Sometimes I will think of something to say and then I ask myself: is it worth it? And it just isn't.

Miranda July

#21. I can only write a book like 'The Tin Drum' or 'From the Diary of a Snail' at a special period of my life. The books came about because of how I felt and thought at the time.

Gunter Grass

#22. A few nights later, I secretly hope that I might be a genius. Why else can no amount of sleeping pills fell my brain? But in the morning my daughter asks me what a cloud is and I cannot say.

Jenny Offill

#23. Carrying a thought with dynamic will power means holding it until that thought pattern develops dynamic force. When a thought is made dynamic by will force, it can manifest according to the mental blueprint you have created.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#24. I have many golfer friends whom I play with, including my good friend Ian Poulter, a professional golfer who's coming to Asia to play in a few tournaments.

Heikki Kovalainen

#25. Never mind failures; they are quite natural,
they are the beauty of life, these failures.
What would be LIFE without them

Swami Vivekananda