To Hold Quotes

#1. By the way, when you finish the bottle of Crown Royal, you can still use the pouch to hold your broken dreams.

Jon Stewart

#2. All I would tell people is to hold onto what was individual about themselves, not to allow their ambition for success to cause them to try to imitate the success of others. You've got to find it on your own terms.

Harrison Ford

#3. A deliberate attitude that you have to hold in your mind as one of the basic rules of yoga is to remain even-minded and cheerful..

Goswami Kriyananda

#4. The plant that's been uprooted has only courage to hold it up.

Marty Rubin

#5. He was mirroring my thoughts on Saturday night - this man is good for you, Sara - the same thoughts I'd tried so hard to hold on to.

Christina Lauren

#6. And it is long since I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value.

Alexander Hamilton

#7. This was the dream: to have a house of your own, to fill it with furniture and paint the shutters whatever color you chose. But a fine-looking house could conceal so many horrors. It seemed they spent half their lives just trying to hold it together.

J. Courtney Sullivan

#8. Don Miller says we're called to hold our hands against the wounds of a broken world, to stop the bleeding. i agree so greatly.

Jamie Tworkowski

#9. Picture two lovers side by side who sleep and dream and wake to hold the real and the imagined world body by body, word by word in the wild halo of their thought

Gwen Harwood

#10. I had a choice," he argued. Then, with a surprising tenderness, he pressed three light kisses along my neck. When he raised his head, he said, "I chose to take you. I chose to hold you close." He inhaled. "I chose to make you mine.

Tillie Cole

#11. But, like most things in life, unless you really work at it, anger's a hard thing to hold on to.

Sarah Alderson

#12. if she wanted anything in this world, she had to hold on with bulldog tenacity until she got it.

Gerri Russell

#13. Political figures who talk a lot about liberty and freedom invariably turn out to mean the freedom to not pay taxes and discriminate based on race; freedom to hold different ideas and express them, not so much.

Paul Krugman

#14. People with places to go and people with no place to go; people with a purpose and people with no purpose; people trying to hold time back and people trying to urge it forward

Haruki Murakami

#15. We've learned to hold ourselves accountable in the end, but we still fail to ask for help in the middle.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#16. When we so fear the dark that we demand light around the clock, there can be only one result: artificial light that is glaring and graceless and, beyond its borders, a darkness that grows ever more terrifying as we try to hold it off.

Parker J. Palmer

#17. They say if you fall, someone who loves you will lend a hand for you, I have 8 pairs of hands always ready to hold me back up when I stumble

Jessica Jung

#18. Quit worrying about people that are trying to hold you back. God knows how to move the wrong people out of your life and bring the right people in. He knows how to prepare you to Break Out.

Joel Osteen

#19. Life is important. There is nothing to hold onto. A man that drinks is throwing his life away. Don't do it, hold on to your life. There is nothing else to hold on to ...

Tennessee Williams

#20. A dam doesn't try to reason with the water. Its main purpose is to hold it still for a while. When I lecture my kids I'm doing much the same thing. I'm not trying to necessarily reason with them, just hold them still for a short while.

Spuds Crawford

#21. Be the Inner Spirit that is you. And relish in the creative moment. But don't try to hold to anything that has been created in the moment - including your body. And when you find that place, there is peace beyond description. Because then you accept that you are the eternal being that you are.

Esther Hicks

#22. Sometimes you catch something specific like the screams and cries of people trying to hold on to each other before they're swallowed into other, bigger noises.
This is what it sound like when the world ends.

Courtney Summers

#23. Sometimes your heart is fullest when you know it's breaking. Sometimes, the sky has to darken so the stars can shine brightest. Sometimes your soul is happiest when the worst possible thing in your life has come to pass. Because there is nothing left to hold on to, and fear grows wings to fly.

Baylie Karperien

#24. If you have to hold an employee accountable, replace that employee with a better one who takes responsibility so you don't have to.

Bob Lewis

#25. A grieving person's like a person treading in deep water
if they've nothing to hold on to, they lose hope. They slide right under.

Susanna Kearsley

#26. You have to hold your audience in writing to the very end-much more than in talking, when people have to be polite and listen to you.

Brenda Ueland

#27. Understanding faith can be like trying to hold onto jello. Just when you think you've got a handful of the stuff, all you really have is the residue all over your sticky hands.

Jennifer L. Lane

#28. I remember being on Atonement and it felt very right to be there. There was so much excitement every day. I remember very vividly how it felt to be a child on a film set, and that is actually really important to hold on to for as long as you continue to make films.

Saoirse Ronan

#29. I've already discovered how to hold myself within range.

Esther Hicks

#30. There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue

Elizabeth I

#31. My dear boy, in Ireland the midwife uses one hand to hold the baby's best fighting arm from the font water, and grips its jaws with the other lest the goes to litigation about it. Says O'LiamRoe

Dorothy Dunnett

#32. If you really believe something, you will act in accordance with that belief - always. If you believe in gravity, you will never attempt to defy it. If you claim to hold a belief but act incongruently, then you don't actually believe it. You're only kidding yourself. Casual faith isn't.

Steve Pavlina

#33. I wish Peeta were here to hold me, until I remember I'm not supposed to wish that anymore. I have chosen Gale and the rebellion, and a future with Peeta is the Capitol's design, not mine.

Suzanne Collins

#34. Reply implicitly upon the old, old gospel. You need no other nets when you fish for men; those your Master has given you are strong enough to hold the little ones. Spread these nets and no others, and you need not fear the fulfillment of His word, 'I will make you fishers of men.'

Charles Spurgeon

#35. Insight that dawns slowly seems to me to have more lasting effects than a fitful idealism, which is unlikely to hold out for long.

Carl Jung

#36. It felt something like being in love, but without the weight of having to choose just one heart to hold on to, and without the fear of ever losing it.

J. Courtney Sullivan

#37. I think about my audience when I write, to some extent. Thinking of writing for young adults, I try to keep the stories moving, never a dull moment, to hold their interest.

William Sleator

#38. To hold in the mind forever two ideas which seemed to be in opposition. The first ... acceptance totally without rancor, of life as it is, and men as they are [;] ... the second ... that one must never, in one's life, accept ... injustices as commonplace but must fight them with all one's strength.

James Baldwin

#39. Step into the center of the center of the center - right into your Now - and see: how elegant and honest this moment is. Just being yourself, a world to hold your feet, a universe to lift your gaze, a heart beating - constant, in the center of it all.

Laurie Perez

#40. One of the (many) problems with government is not that power corrupts or even that it is magnetic to corruptible people; rather, it is that we have been conditioned to tolerate corruption in power, and so we don't even try to hold our politicians accountable.

Michel Templet

#41. To hold the power of affection and maintain the roots of love, you must stay trusted.

Auliq Ice

#42. It is almost impossible to state what one in fact believes, because it is almost impossible to hold a belief and to define it at the same time.

William Carlos Williams

#43. I can't tell if I should be ashamed of wanting to hold you on this day, or grateful that, despite what happened before now, it somehow brought me to you.

Sarah J. Maas

#44. It's nice to hold on to a holiday midnight a little longer than usual

Mikhail Bulgakov

#45. I still find it interesting that there could be a point between a young guy and a girl when they decide to hold hands as they walk down the block. At some point, they decide to make the leap from pushing and insulting each other to doing something tender and possessive and showing the world that.

Amy Heckerling

#46. To keep doing this job [draw political cartoons] week after week, I think you have to want to change the world, while understanding that you can't. You have to hold both of those contradictory ideas simultaneously.

Tom Tomorrow

#47. The More Important Your Cheese Is To You The More You Want To Hold On To It.

Spencer Johnson

#48. You Got to know when to hold em' , Know when to fold em' , know when to walk away, know when to run.

Nikki Turner

#49. Even the securest financial plan and the finest health coverage aren't enough to hold us steady when the challenges come ... We need something more, something deeper and unshakeable, something that will see us through life's hard times.

Billy Graham

#50. My problems seemed so glamorous to other people, and everyone just thought I was so lucky. But then, I was lucky because my family was really there for me. I think I just felt like I really wanted to hold on to who I was as a person, and try to have as much of a normal life as I could.

Winona Ryder

#51. Because I wouldn't want to die alone," I said, and my voice wobbled as I looked at Tamlin again, forcing myself to meet his stare. "Because I'd want someone to hold my hand until the end, and awhile after that.
That's something everyone deserves, human or faerie.

Sarah J. Maas

#52. I didn't want to do 'The Fluffy Puppy Learns to Hold Hands!' or 'Kitty Gets a Box to Play In!' There's a place for that for the little ones - some kids need that stuff. But I'm too dark and sarcastic.

Drew Daywalt

#53. This is classic denial: no one wants to hold a mental image of themselves as bad or evil, so immoral acts are necessarily dressed up in a cloak of intellectual self-justification.

Mark Lynas

#54. No market economy can function properly without the support of legal and moral sanctions, designed to hold individual agents to their bargains, and to return the cost of misbehaviour to the one who causes it. But

Roger Scruton

#55. I have to hold a meeting with the rising generation every evening, and that takes time. Henry can say, 'Twinkle, twinkle,' all himself, and Edward can repeat it after his father! Giants of genius! Paragons of erudition!

Adoniram Judson

#56. I said to de Lord, 'I'm goin' to hold steady on to you, an' I know you'll see me through.'

Harriet Tubman

#57. We are all lonely and all seek a hand to hold in the darkness. It is not the harp, but the hand that plays it.

Bernard Cornwell

#58. A dominant impulse on encountering beauty is to wish to hold on to it, to possess it and give it weight in one's life. There is an urge to say, 'I was here, I saw this and it mattered to me.

Alain De Botton

#59. I'm so proud to be an Army brat, but it was not an easy life. Moving around so much, skating was that one constant thing I had to hold on to.

Ashley Wagner

#60. His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#61. The law is the anchor of our feelings. If the law holds our feelings well, it directs our feelings well. If however, the laws fails to hold our feelings well, our feelings become free enough for us to do what we feel freely

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#62. What's worrying is that those in the 1 percent, in attempting to claim for themselves an unjust proportion of the benefits of this system, may be willing to destroy the system itself to hold on to what they have. This

Joseph E. Stiglitz

#63. It is impossible to reduce, or, at least, to hold a distant country against the wishes and efforts of its inhabitants.

Edward Gibbon

#64. One has freedom as the principal means of action; the other has servitude. Their ... paths [are] diverse; nevertheless, each seems called by some secret design of Providence one day to hold in its hands the destinies of half the world.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#65. When Perry and I walked into the hospital waiting room and I saw her sitting there, I began to cry, because that's what friendship looks like: knowing your friend better than she knows herself and being there to hold her hand while her heart breaks.

Melanie Shankle

#66. Just don't give up on us. Please, don't give up. I'm a shell without you, Alayna. I can barely breathe when you aren't near me, when I'm not touching you. Right now, it's all I can do to hold myself back from taking you in my arms.

Laurelin Paige

#67. And as ridiculous as it may sound, sometimes all any of us needs in life is for someone to hold our hand and walk next to us.

James Frey

#68. I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant. I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.

William Tecumseh Sherman

#69. Religion is to be used as a stepping stone to God but it must never be used as a tower to hold one aloft from others. We are all cells in the body of humanity. When anyone attempts to isolate another, they only isolate themselves more.

Peace Pilgrim

#70. Best of all, she waits outside the dressing room while I'm changing. Girlfriends don't do this but wives do, and if there is any better reason to get married than to have someone to hold your hand in a clothing store, I don't know what it is.

Charlie Close

#71. Go, poor devil, get thee gone! Why should I hurt thee? This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.

Laurence Sterne

#72. Valerie stood with the other women, watching the men go. She couldn't help bristling at this division of the sexes. Her fingers itched to hold a weapon, too, to do something, to kill something with her anger.

Sarah Blakley-Cartwright

#73. But grief is not a force and has no power to hold. You only bear it. Love is what carries you, for it is always there, even in the dark, or most in the dark, but shining out at times like gold stitches in a piece of embroidery. Sometimes

Wendell Berry

#74. We are constantly trying to hold it all together. If you really want to see why you do things, then don't do them and see what happens.

Michael A. Singer

#75. Sometimes the worst brings out the best in you, Sometimes the lowest tide ushers in the biggest change, Sometimes the gravest wounds translate into deepest wisdom, Sometimes the nadir leads you to the zenith - All you need to do is - To Hold On

Manprit Kaur

#76. The job of the artist is not to resolve or beautify, but to hold complexities, to see and make clear.

Toi Derricotte

#77. You got to know when to hold them, know when to fold them, know when to walk away, and know when to run

Kenny Rogers

#78. The fanatic is not really a stickler to principle. He embraces a cause not primarily because of its justness or holiness but because of his desperate need for something to hold onto.

Eric Hoffer

#79. I like that I have kids still willing to hold my hand.

Christine Taylor

#80. Damen tore off a piece of the bread, and then he looked at the men by the fire, and then he looked at Damen, a long, cool look that would have been difficult to hold if Damen had not had, by now, a great deal of practice.
And then he said, 'All right.

C.S. Pacat

#81. Poor Cecil. It's hard to be a devil of a fellow in these modern times. No stagecoaches to hold up. No princesses to rescue. Just Petey Todd to escort, while the easy, expert fellow walks the pretty girl home.

Franny Billingsley

#82. When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flown at it to hold it back from flight.

James Joyce

#83. Teaching is like trying to hold 35 corks underwater at once.

Mark Twain

#84. You build a wall to keep something unwanted out ... or to hold something precious in.

Jodi Picoult

#85. The world changed on 9/11, but it didn't give a damn what we lost or how much we hurt. It didn't stop spinning. It would go on, one way or another, and it was up to us to hold on to something, anything ... no matter how inconsequential or thin it had felt in the past.

Tucker Elliot

#86. And I know the auditorium may be big enough to hold a thousand students, but it's too small to hide just one.

Marieke Nijkamp

#87. Genius is the ability to hold one's vision steady until it becomes reality

Benjamin Franklin

#88. Superheroes are works of fiction - created by individuals to hold up humanity's finest attributes and remind us that the choices we make in life have profound consequences. They also embody some of the qualities we aspire to, and as such, we can learn a great deal from them.

Anonymous

#89. Fat cells have memories. They want to go back to their old size. But new muscles have memories too and, once you have created muscles, they work hard to hold your new shape.
You are always on a diet. The only question is, a diet for what? Health or obesity? Longevity or illness?

Celso Cukierkorn

#90. We used to watch executions. I mentioned that in one of my stories. There was a piece of open ground near the area where we lived and we used to play soccer there. That was where they used to hold public executions for soldiers who deserted the army and members of the Kurdish resistance.

Hassan Blasim

#91. The objects I chose were designed to hold something, but I didn't fill them up. They remained empty. They were little symbolic shrines to thirst.

Margaret Atwood

#92. Let me go!" I screamed, but it was a wasted effort. Dean was determined to hold me. Determined never to lose his grip.
"I'm never going to let you go again.

Jaimie Roberts

#93. It is possible to hold a treasure in your hand but be ignorant of it and go for the wrapping instead. This proximity to truth and distance from its worth is repeated innumerable times in our lives.

Ravi Zacharias

#94. What torture it is to hold onto reason as desire intensifies

Belen Gopegui

#95. The changes during adolescence are not something to just get through; they are qualities we actually need to hold on to in order to live a full and meaningful life in adulthood.

Daniel J. Siegel

#96. Sometimes letting go is the only way to find out who you're meant to hold on to.

J. Sterling

#97. When Jack Burns needed to hold his mother's hand, his fingers could see in the dark.

John Irving

#98. Nothing that's ever happened has taken away the optimist in me. It's always, "Whatever-let's go to Disneyland." Yes, I have my bleak, tortured-artist moments, but you have to hold on to what's positive.

Mariah Carey

#99. It takes courage to sit on a jury. How many of us want to decide the fate of another person's life or freedom? How many of us want to hold that kind of power in our hands?

Regina Brett

#100. The elderly have weathered enough squalls to know that this one, too, shall pass. They own the courage to be original; they've learned to hold their own values above the conventional wisdom.

Sarah Ferguson