Holding Quotes

#1. I'm a lucky boy! I could be holding a gun in Afghanistan. There's boys out there doing what they've got to do, and there's people digging holes, and there's people driving buses. And there's nothing wrong with that.

Ray Winstone

#2. Loki was hurling fire runes and holding a running commentary on her battle, to which no one but him was listening to.
'And Thor gets in behind Frey and - WHAM! BOOM! That's got to hurt. And Loki SCORES! This boy's on FIRE!

Joanne Harris

#3. I'm just a woman in the shadows, holding on to secrets so tightly I don't know if there'll be anything left, now that I've let them go.

Gwenda Bond

#4. We do as much harm holding onto programs and people past their natural life span as we do when we employ massive organizational air strikes. However, destroying comes at the end of life's cycle, not as a first response.

Margaret J. Wheatley

#5. Holding your cock in my hand, feeling the blood rush beneath the skin.

Leta Blake

#6. If our holding certain values had no effect at all on what we chose to do, values would lose all their importance. Now

Peter Singer

#7. The thing that gets me up in the morning is that I'm really not ready to see someone that I know I can beat holding my belt.

Ronda Rousey

#8. She was floating as the sea of pleasure took her out upon its rising tide and when she became aware of herself again it was to the feel of Zac behind her, supporting her weight by holding her under her arms. (Barely Restrained, 2011)

Brenda Cothern

#9. If someone gave you a device with which you could see entire worlds just by holding it in front of your eyes, worlds of such beauty and complexity that they took your breath away ... wouldn't you want to show this device to everyone you knew?

Ann Patchett

#10. They were two hands holding one heart.

David Paul Kirkpatrick

#11. To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.

Thomas Paine

#12. The process of grief has a beginning a middle and an end. The hard part is holding on in the middle. You can hold on. There's transformation happening in these times bringing you to a new place. It's a place you can only get to through the pain.

Mary Gauthier

#13. Women need space and silence. We too quickly give away our energy. There's something about holding that richness.

Natalie Goldberg

#14. Think of Divine Abundance as a mighty, refreshing rain. Whatever receptacle you have at hand will receive it. If you hold up a tin cup, you will receive only that quantity. If you hold up a bowl, that will be filled. What kind of receptacle are you holding up to Divine Abundance?

Paramahansa Yogananda

#15. Thank you," Emerson said, bowing his head and accepting the box with the tender hands of a parent holding a child. "I am indebted-"
"Don't be.This doesn't mean I like you or your politics any better," Heath said gruffly.

Lisa Kleypas

#16. Holding on to the past will hold you down in life. Learn from it but move on.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#17. Something happens to us all when we experience something as a unit that doesn't occur when we're on our couches or holding our little portable DVD players.

David Ogden Stiers

#18. He was banana bread and holding hands. He was soft smiles and warm touches. He was whispered words and solemn declarations. He was love. He was home. He was forever.

A Meredith Walters

#19. I don't think nationalism is alone holding the field; it's in contention with a lot of different things.

Peter Singer

#20. In moments of unmet desire, heartbreak, or grief, Satan sends a poisonous arrow of doubt straight at your heart. This was his plan with Eve. He persuaded her to think God was "holding out on her" and that she would be better off not listening to Him.

Marian Jordan Ellis

#21. They call it mourning. And I think that was the reason he tried so hard to be someone who functioned. By holding on to how things had always been, he was mourning what was missing.

Milena Michiko Flasar

#22. Have spent many years holding so tightly to things - wants, desires, etc. - but inevitably, they or something even better only arrives when I release the grasp.

Allison McAtee

#23. Unless I'm working for Diddy, holding that umbrella, I ain't no one's assistant....

Marvelyn Brown

#24. Schools must stop being holding pens to keep energetic young people off the job market and off the streets. We stretch puberty out a long, long time.

Toni Morrison

#25. I have vowed to keep you safe, to make it so you never feel fear again, to give you better, and here I stand, with you so close but still holding yourself away, because it was me who failed at giving you all those things.

Kristen Ashley

#26. Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding.

Aristotle.

#27. Since all human governments, like all human individuals, are subject to temptation, especially the temptation to use this God-given role for their own ends, there must be clear and wise critique, and holding to account.

N. T. Wright

#28. They would sit together under the stars, recalling the ages that were gone and all their joys and labours in the world, or holding council, concerning the days to come.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#29. Cathedrals, luxury liners laden with souls, Holding to the east their hulls of stone.

W. H. Auden

#30. This felt right. Not just leaving, but how I was doing it. Without regret, without second guessing. And with Wes right there, holding the door open for me as I walked out into the light.

Sarah Dessen

#31. She's trying to sabotage all the magic holding this island together. But that would create a catastrophe for all of Hawaii."
"Well, that does it," Koko huffed. "As of today, she's off my Christmas card list.

Laurence Yep

#32. Playing this game, you cannot have nothing holding you back. If you're thinking, you're wrong automatically.

Cam Newton

#33. It's like when you're excited about a girl and you see a couple holding hands, and you feel so happy for them. And other times you see the same couple, and they make you so mad. And all you want is to feel happy for them because you know that if you do, then it means you're happy, too.

Stephen Chbosky

#34. It always feels better when someone understands that you're standing in a shit storm holding a broken umbrella.

Jana Deleon

#35. Nothing can drag you down if you're not holding on to it.

Tony Robbins

#36. Fortunately the bad guys had the tactical intelligence of a waffle iron, so the hero was able to outsmart them by ducking behind some rocks, then putting his hat on a stick and holding it

Dave Barry

#37. It's too bad the word miracle has been overused, because I swear it's the only word that fit the feeling of holding my daughter in my arms. My heart swelled to the size of the world.

James Patterson

#38. The cloud controls the light ... It is the cloud that, holding the sun's rays in a sheaf as a giant holds a handful of spears, strikes the horizon, touches the extreme edge with a delicate revelation of light, or suddenly puts it out and makes the foreground shine.

Alice Meynell

#39. The level of achievement that we have at anything, is a reflection, of how well, we were able to focus on it. Because the only thing that's holding you back, is the way you're thinking.

Steve Vai

#40. Once you understand non-self, then the burden of life is gone. You'll be at peace with the world. When we see beyond self, we no longer cling to happiness and we can truly be happy. Learn to let go without struggle, simply let go, to be just as you are - no holding on, no attachment, free.

Ajahn Chah

#41. Our time is so precious. You're holding out for someone who you really want to spend all your time with. Otherwise, there's no point to it.

Liz Tuccillo

#42. I'm one of those people at the airport holding a pillow like a little kid.

Rachel Platten

#43. This is my heart. You are touching it with your left hand. You are touching it with your left hand, not because you are left-handed, although you might be, but because I am holding it against my heart. What you are feeling is the beating of my heart. It is what keeps me alive.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#44. Hot tea," he said, holding the cups. "It's just wrong.

Maureen Johnson

#45. Never again will I justify the scars just because I loved the person holding the knife.

Steve Maraboli

#46. Eve hugged him and whispered in his ear, "Careful. I'm fatal." He needed to remember that warning.
He whispered back, holding her hair so she couldn't squirm away, "Jesus. It's like you said that directly to my balls."
She laughed so hard at his unexpected reply.

Debra Anastasia

#47. Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.

Booker T. Washington

#48. I rendezvous with the long wire and perform the 'torero walk', gliding my feet, holding the pole away from my body, head high.

Philippe Petit

#49. One day we found them. They must of been holding a gook convention or something, cause it seem like the same sort of deal as when you step on a anthill and they all come swarming around.

Winston Groom

#50. Holding a grudge against someone means you think you know what they deserve and you take it upon yourself to give it to them.

Timothy Keller

#51. The length of the fall is dictated by how far we had climbed. The outcome of the fall is dictated by whether we're holding on to that which we're climbing, or we're letting God hold onto us.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#52. My desire to be an artist really came out of being broke and unemployed and incapable of holding a job down. That's what it was driven by for sure.

Gary Hume

#53. I believe in justice, as long as I'm holding a knife at the throat of the judge.

Matthew Woodring Stover

#54. I don't see no black and white couples in England or America walking around proud holding their children and going out.

Muhammad Ali

#55. Are not the gays who seek the right to marry, to formalise their commitment to each other, holding up a mirror to heterosexuals who are marrying less frequently and divorcing more often?

Malcolm Turnbull

#56. If your pop had dumped me, I wouldn't have moved on either. He was mine, and no other man would do. Holding onto what I loved wouldn't have made me weak. It'd make me strong enough to be alone rather than with a man who gives me less than I need.

Bijou Hunter

#57. And so she comes to dream herself the tree, The wind possessing her, weaving her young veins, Holding her to the sky and its quick blue, Drowning the fever of her hands in sunlight. She has no memory, nor fear, nor hope Beyond the grass and shadows at her feet.

Hart Crane

#58. I don't know that the referee can be watching holding on the offensive line and get back to the quarterback. I think watching the quarterback is a full-time job.

John Madden

#59. Rather than having small smart tricks to get by, focus on holding on and persevering.

Jack Ma

#60. If you think you are the mermaid, think again.
You are the ocean holding the mermaid afloat,
trying to change the world one dolphin at a time.

Kelli Russell Agodon

#61. If I am to cherish anything to the fullest I must humbly embrace it as an undeserved 'privilege,' for to nonchalantly handle anything as other than a 'privilege' is to handle things of immense value and in the holding be entirely oblivious to what I'm holding.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#62. The strongest magic doesn't simply act upon us, it becomes us. Running with our blood, holding us upright from the inside out, just like our bones.

Cameron Dokey

#63. Have you ever sat around while someone held their breath? For a while, it doesn't bother you, but eventually you start holding your breath with them, willing them to breathe. it's one of those automatic reflexes. (Mercy)

Patricia Briggs

#64. Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.

Earl Nightingale

#65. We have an assumption here in America that the kind thing to do is to be "friendly," which means being extroverted, even intrusive. The Japanese assume the opposite: being kind means holding back.

Laurie A. Helgoe

#66. Holding me, as it were, within the infinite hope of your plausibility.

Peter Davis

#67. In a word, if any kind of slavery can be vindicated by the Holy Scriptures, we are already sure our making and holding the Negroes our slaves, as we do, cannot be vindicated by any thing we can find there, but is condemned by the whole of divine revelation.

Samuel Hopkins

#68. There were several pictures of Lula with Evan Duffield, a few of them clearly taken by one or other of the pair themselves, holding the camera at arm's length, both of them apparently stoned or drunk.

Robert Galbraith

#69. Yeah, you do. Because right now, I'm your best hope to defeat Byzamoth. So if you don't want to spend eternity bent over and holding your ankles for him, you'll back the fuck off.


~Wraith

Larissa Ione

#70. I'm used to holding on to nothing as tight as I can.

Amy A. Bartol

#71. Somehow, by holding hands you can carry on a conversation without talking.

Maureen Daly

#72. The Olympics are coming ... and it's a big problem in American politics, because the problem with holding the Olympics this fall is that we're all going to be focused on the Olympics, and it makes that window of opportunity for Gore to win the election that much smaller.

Susan Estrich

#73. I let go of the pump as well now. I registered a sense of fatigue. And regret. It was the same fatigue and regret you feel when you miss a tennis ball. You were planning to smash it, but you swing hard and miss; the arm holding the racket meets no resistance and lashes wildly through the air.

Herman Koch

#74. The Umbrella Ward is holding except that one blip in that popular game that's going around. Annoying as the Shuos are, they are correct that people can be manipulated through games.

Yoon Ha Lee

#75. Holding on stands in the way of what's meant for you.

Auliq Ice

#76. She held out her hands, cupped and holding a small plant.
'The power to heal is the power to destroy,' she said with the faintest smile.

F.T. McKinstry

#77. Ah, Christ. Do you know how fucking good you feel on me? So damn tight and soft, holding me in. I love the way you smell, the way you taste. I love the sounds you make. Fuck, baby, I love you.

Susan Fanetti

#78. To meet the huge consumer demand for fish, the industry can no longer rely on hunting wild fish. Now we are doing to fish what was done to wild cows, sheep, goats, chickens, and ducks thousands of years ago: we are confining them in holding pens.

Sharon Gannon

#79. All State education is a sort of dynamo machine for polarizing the popular mind; for turning and holding its lines of force in the direction supposed to be most effective for State purposes.

Henry Adams

#80. Cause silence isn't golden
When I'm holding it inside

Axl Rose

#81. If you wish to be brothers, let the arms fall from your hands. One cannot love while holding offensive arms.

Gerald Brenan

#82. Holding your team accountable to do the jobs they're being paid to do is not being mean; it's being a manager, and that's your job.

Liz Weber

#83. If he wasn't already holding my heart in the palm of his hand, I would have taken it out and given it to him right then.

Myra McEntire

#84. Who knows? You might get used to this slant on things (but if you did, you'd never be able to view the world again without holding your head out of true.)

Haruki Murakami

#85. When the ball dropped in 1999, I was holding dough and champagne in my hands and holding my kids.

Method Man

#86. Tell me, are you still hung up on that boy?' 'Excuse me?' Schuyler asked, holding a test tube. 'Nothing.' Kingsley shrugged innocently. 'If that's how you like to play it.

Melissa De La Cruz

#87. When I have one martini, I feel bigger, wiser, taller. When I have a second, I feel superlative. When I have more, there's no holding me.

William Faulkner

#88. Only those who do not fill the places they are holding slow the progress of the world

Wallace D. Wattles

#89. God, and not woman, is the heart of all. But she, as priestess of the visible earth, Holding the key, herself most beautiful, Had come to him, and flung the portals wide. He entered in: each beauty was a glass That gleamed the woman back upon his view.

George MacDonald

#90. He would lay here holding her as long as it took and he didn't really care how long that might be. She was his world now, his priority, the rest of his life could wait as far as he was concerned. As long as he knew she was safe, it would all be okay.

Shayna Varadeaux

#91. She came back with the glass and her fingers, cold from holding the glass, touched mine, and I held them for a moment and then let them go slowly, as you let go of a dream when you wake with the sun in your face and you have been in an enchanted valley

Raymond Chandler

#92. The slogan offers a counterweight to the general dispersion of thought by holding it fast to a single, utterly succinct and unforgettable expression, one which usually inspires men to immediate action. It abolishes reflection: the slogan does not argue, it asserts and commands.

Johan Huizinga

#93. I got him," I said unapologetically, bending to lift Nicholas into my arms.
Jase must have detected the tone in my voice when he responded, "He's all yours, buddy. I was just holding your place until you got here.

A.M. Madden

#94. Clear skies will mean you are happy. Rain will mean you're crying. Sunset means you are embarrassed. Night will mean you are gently holding me.

Mika.

#95. What is the focus of the new image infrastructure? Attention. It's all designed for capturing, tracking, quantifying, manipulating, holding, buying, selling and controlling attention.

Bruce Mau

#96. It's one thing, holding open the door for someone at a grocery store, or the library, or just about anyplace else. But the doughnut shop is a different thing altogether. This is a get-in-and-out-as-fast-as-you-can operation. There's no room for courtesy or chivalry here.

Linwood Barclay

#97. If you keep holding on to the past, the pain will never go away.

Jessamine Verzosa

#98. We make a picture," he said, "of how we want the world to be, and most of the time it isn't like that. Holding on to that image causes the suffering. Not the world, not the truth. Our disappointment is what makes us hurt.

M.L.N. Hanover

#99. Lipstick comes in phallic-shaped tubes. With just a breath of imagination, it feels as if you are holding a miniature penis, rubbing the head over your half-opened lips before squeezing down to spread the oily soft blush evenly over every curve and into every corner.

Chloe Thurlow

#100. It's hard to fathom how fast we've gone from best friends to dick-holding but none of it seems wrong in the slightest.

Karina Halle