Quotes About Holding Out For Love

#1. There's something honorable about holding out for love and not breaking up for the sake of the baby. I see people get divorced, and there is a part of me that thinks, I wonder how hard they tried?

Judd Apatow

#2. We are wasting our youth holding cold devices while we should be holding one another's warm hands.

Mohamed Ghazi

#3. Her arms quiver from holding the bowl. She must truly love him to hold that bowl for so very long. There must be something isdeof him that is worthy of that kindness

Carrie Jones

#4. You may not agree, you may not care, but
if you are holding this book you should know that of all the sights I love in this world - and there are plenty - very near the top of the list is this one: dogs without leashes.

Mary Oliver

#5. I have some girls who I look back on and I think, 'Wow, they were really horrible to me.' I would love an apology from a few girls, but whatever. I'm not holding any grudges. I'm over it.

Odette Annable

#6. The Librarian was not familiar with love, which had always struck him as a bit ethereal and soppy, but kindness, on the other hand, was practical. You knew where you were with kindness, especially if you were holding a pie it had just given you.

Terry Pratchett

#7. Death is not the way they show it in the movies, with the dying person holding on just long enough for one last embrace, some final words of love or absolution.

Bethany Chase

#8. I made a terrible mistake. I got caught up in the excitement of the moment. I would never intentionally endanger the lives of my children. I love my children. I was holding my son tight. Why would I throw a baby off the balcony? That's the dumbest, stupidest story I ever heard.

Michael Jackson

#9. It's like I'm trying to keep the bad away with one hand while holding on to the good with the other, and it just doesn't work. It's stupid. I need both hands. So I guess I just have to spread out my arms and accept the bad with the good.

Andrea Lochen

#10. For love that is not requited in equal measure is not love at all; it is not sacred. And holding on to the ideal of such love can keep us from finding the one that is true.

Kathleen McGowan

#11. The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Raoul Vaneigem

#12. As I accepted my death and dissolution into God's love, the insectoids began feeding on my heart, devouring the feelings of love and surrender. They were interested in emotion. As I was holding on to my last thought - that God is love - they asked, Even here? Even here?

Rick Strassman

#13. Holding the moon in your hands, velvety, your heart beats on my lips.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#14. I'd rather die holding on to the love I believe in, than to live embracing a love that's a lie.

Stephan Labossiere

#15. Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#16. With Dante gone, time seemed to stand still around me; the mornings just as cloudy and dark as the evenings, as if the sun had never decided to rise. There was no wind, like the world was holding its breath along with me, waiting for him to return.

Yvonne Woon

#17. I love romantic comedies. They're for me the easiest thing to do and the most natural to do. There's nothing natural about holding an uzi hanging out of a moving van shooting at people. That's not second nature to me, thank God.

Gabrielle Union

#18. Some things a heart won't listen to, I'm still holding out for you

SHeDAISY

#19. If a man WANTS to be with you, he will make his actions clear. There won't be any questions, murkiness, cloudiness, or fear.

Mandy Hale

#20. He grinned at me so unexpectedly I forgot to flap for a second and dropped several feet."You looove me," he crooned smugly holding his arms out wide, he added,"You love me this much.

James Patterson

#21. Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake & help us see we are worth so much more than we're settling for.

Mandy Hale

#22. Here's a glorious thought: You don't have to settle. Ever. In life, in love, in your career ... ANYWHERE!

Mandy Hale

#23. You are holding in your hands not only a book of readings and instruction for the journey, but one monastic's heart of love held out to a searching world.

Paula D'Arcy

#24. I was so afraid that I'd never be able to love anyone, and here I was, holding a child I desperately wanted to call my own and upstairs was a woman I would give my life for.
Turns out I was always capable of love, I just hadn't found it yet.

J.L. Berg

#25. Have you ever been in love? For real?"
"You know I haven't. Don't you think I would have mentioned it?"
"But how can you know for sure, if you don't know what it would feel like? Maybe you have without even realizing it. Maybe you're holding out for something you already have.

Cassandra Clare

#26. The right one for you will move mountains to be with you - he won't hide behind them.

Mandy Hale

#27. For me,the greater part of writing is daydreaming, dreaming the dream of my story until it hatches out-the writing down of it I always find hard.But I love finishing it,then holding the book in my hand and sharing my dream with my readers.

Michael Morpurgo

#28. The wonderful, beautiful thing that happens when you rid yourself of the things that don't see your worth? You make space in your life for all the glorious things you deserve.

Mandy Hale

#29. 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

#30. His hand lay across my stomach as he slept soundly. I entwined my fingers with his and breathed through the warmth that seeped through my chest. Such a simple, sweet thing to do, yet holding hands in bed was incredibly intimate.

N.R. Walker

#31. Fall in love with me, Gary! She thought. Please. Please sit here holding me and think there's nowhere on earth I'd rather be than here, and no girl I'd rather have in my lap than Beth Rose Chapman!

Caroline B. Cooney

#32. A while ago, I wished upon a shooting star that one day I'd find someone to love ... and now holding you in my arms makes me realize that wishes really do come true,

Sherry Soule

#33. Some people meet the way the sky meets the earth, inevitably, and there is no stopping or holding back their love. It exists in a finished world, beyond the reach of common sense.

Louise Erdrich

#34. You can look forward with love or backward with hate, and people have to make that choice for themselves. But holding on to bitterness is like drinking poison and waiting for someone else to die, and she by God wasn't going to waste her time like that.

Abigail Strom

#35. I can't protect you without holding a sword. I can't embrace you while holding a sword.

Tite Kubo

#36. It is a fundamental right for people to be allowed to love who they want to love and marry who they want to marry and stop holding on to some form of discrimination that it's just isn't fair.

Ellen DeGeneres

#37. Love is better than hate.
Faith is greater than fear.
Having positive vibes is better than holding on to negative ones. Learn to stay positive. Choose faith over fear and love over hate. Change your perspective. Change your life and change your world.

Kemi Sogunle

#38. How long has it been since you looked into the eyes of your mother and, holding nothing back, spoke those welcome words, 'Mother, I truly love you'? How about Father, who daily toils to provide for you? Fathers appreciate hearing those same precious words from the lips of a child, 'I love you.'

Thomas S. Monson

#39. Holding pain and hurt inside is unhealthy and locks in a lot of toxic energy that works against what we really want, which is healthy love.

Stephan Labossiere

#40. Goodbyes are not easy, but I'm ready to move on. I'm not reluctant, Emma, not holding back. I don't have answers to the questions, but I have some good questions. I have loved life, but I believe that life is to be loved, it is a gift.

Madeleine L'Engle

#41. Are you in love with him?'
She kept her lips tightly closed as if holding something back.
'Are you in love with me?'
She tried to answer but nothing came out. She lowered her eyes to the floor.

Tan Redding

#42. And now - our love is so true, I won't take a step without you. Thank God, you came. If you love me, please don't ever let me go.

Angela Morrison

#43. Letting go of someone who owns your heart is hard. Sometimes holding on to that person is even harder. I know I'm not the easiest person to love, but you are.

J. Sterling

#44. Things base and vile, holding no quantity,
Love can transpose to form and dignity.
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
Nor hath Love's mind of any judgment taste;
Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste.

William Shakespeare

#45. Even in a million different pieces, Eleanor could still feel Park holding her hand.

Rainbow Rowell

#46. Sometimes you win or sometimes you lose.
I don't wanna lose you, Don't even own you.
I just wanna stay right here, Until never dawns

Corinne Bailey Rae

#47. He took my hands, holding them between us. "Please, just do this for me. Don't ask questions." he turned my hand over and kissed my palms. "Don't ask to be hurt. Don't fight. Just love me." His voice was soft enough to turn stone to putty, and all desire to defy him left me.

C.D. Reiss

#48. That kiss was amazing; it had all the passion and longing we had been holding onto for so long. That is when the dam finally broke for me and I started crying. I knew right then that Hunter was the only one I wanted. He was my happily ever after.

Megan Smith

#49. Rain with an umbrella while holding hands with your lover is damned sure nice.

Carew Papritz

#50. Across the seat our eyes are holding hands.

Jennifer Niven

#51. Humans are wired to want to share love, the essence of our being, with others. The more we close this area off by holding onto anger, frustrations, resentments and disappointments, the less we are able to love ourselves and others.

Antonia Hall

#52. As we approached each other, the noise and the students around us melted away and we were utterly alone, passing, smiling, holding each other's eyes, floors and walls gone, two people in a universe of space and stars.

Jerry Spinelli

#53. To be one of a pair of bodies that knew that melting fusion. To reach and find. To be and reached for and found. To belong to a mutual certainty. To wake up holding hands.

Laini Taylor

#54. It is our daily lament that we cannot love enough. Would that our hearts were capable of holding more, and reaching further.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#55. Sex is a commitment ... Once you're there you can't go back to holding hands ... and when you give yourself both mentally and physically ... well, you're completely vulnerable.

Judy Blume

#56. Part of what I love about games is that, even if you're best friends with somebody, it gives you these sort of moments where you get to interact on a completely different level. You all agree to these abstract rules, but there's nobody holding a gun to your head.

Rich Sommer