Quotes About Holding Your Tongue

#1. Don't run

Stop holding your tongue

Sara Bareilles

#2. Kenzie approached sheepishly, one half of the broken rattan in her hand. "Sorry," she said, holding up the ruined weapon with a helpless gesture. "It ... uh ... died a noble death. I can only hope it gave that thing a wicked tongue splinter.

Julie Kagawa

#3. The better part of friendship might be holding one's tongue over the prospect of self-made wreckage.

Barbara Kingsolver

#4. I crossed oceans for you,
Turned over every rock,
Climbed the highest mountains,
Holding on to the words you said,
Reliving your touch inside my head,
The taste of you on the tip of my tongue,
Only to be left with you as only a fantasy inside my head.

LeAnne Mechelle

#5. I think you'd melt like sugar on my tongue. What do you think?" She laughed a little, holding on to my shoulders. "I think I'm melting now." "I think you are. I think you're going to melt all over my fucking hand and I'll lick it off after. Are you loud, little Plum? When you come are you wild?

Christina Lauren

#6. An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue

Henry James

#7. How many people you lost? he asks asfter a second.
God. Numbers heavy in my mind will be even heavier off my tongue. I don't know what's worse, holding their names, or turning them into a body count.

Courtney Summers

#8. Search for the LORD, all you humble people in the land who carry out his justice. Search for what is right. Search for humility. Maybe you will find shelter on the day of the LORD's anger. Zephaniah 2:3

Dianne Neal Matthews

#9. Ignorance is no reason with a fool for holding his tongue.

George MacDonald

#10. You're beautiful he whispered as he scattered kisses along the incision line and over to her bellybutton. When he heard her release the breath she'd been holding, he slipped his tongue inside the well of her navel. He heard her gasp again, but this time in a different way, an excited way.

M. Leighton

#11. There's an element of tongue-in-cheek in every one of our songs. Walking off into the sunset, holding hands, and being married forever was not exactly a brand new idea.

Peter Noone

#12. I had to hold my tongue from since, when I got here til when I was about 22 years old. I ain't holding my tongue no more. So it's best that I don't get no manager, don't get no promoter cos' they're the people tryna tell me what do.

Roy Jones Jr.

#13. So many worlds,
So much to see and do,
So little seen
and done by others,
means many more things
to be seen and done
by extraordinary you.

Ernie J Zelinski

#14. They were all down there trying to wire the shackle. Each one of them alone, clinging to the stem of a mushroom anchor with one breath inside. One breath. It didn't matter if you got the shackle wired or not. There was no up. When your breath was done, no up."

John Casey, Spartina

John Casey

#15. The RNC was run so badly you could walk through their deepest competence and not get your ankles wet.

John Fund

#16. Vision is knowing who you are, where you're going, and what will guide your journey.

Ken Blanchard