Trying To Hold It All Together Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Atheists are suffering from bad PR. What if Sesame Street had an atheist character?

Dan Barker

#3. 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

#4. Most people decide to be a force of good when they either reach rock bottom, are trying to go to heaven, or find out that being good helps hold things together

Phil Mitchell

#5. If something inspires you, try and hold on to that inspiration because if you lose that inspiration, what do you have left? If music is your inspiration and it brings you together with friends, family or loved ones and that's the core of it, then always have it. Always draw from it.

Charlie Benante

#6. I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held. Trying to control what cannot be controlled. I am tired of denying myself what I want for fear of breaking things I cannot fix. They will break no matter what we do.

Erin Morgenstern

#7. I was tired in ways that had nothing to do with sleep. It occurred to me, sitting in the car with her, that I had been trying to hold too many things together that were meant to fall apart.

Pete Dexter

#8. A person's character is but half formed till after wedlock.

Charles Simmons

#9. Why are they denying it?" Larena laid her head on Fallon's shoulder. "He's denying it. She's just trying to hold herself together in the face of what he's done.

Donna Grant

#10. The days of the future stand in fornt of us
Like a line of candles all alight
Golden and warm and lively little candles
The days that are past are left behind

Constantine P. Cavafy

#11. Amon's dancing was like a mashup of Elvis and the Chippendales.

Colleen Houck

#12. Then again, maybe we're all a little broken and just trying to find the glue that'll hold us together.

Dannika Dark

#13. you have outgrown this skin.
stop trying to hold it in.
stop trying to hold it together.

let yourself break.

AVA.

#14. The Sierra Nevada is five hundred miles of rock put right. Granite freed by glaciers and lifted through clouds where water, frozen and fine, has scraped and washed it into a high country so brilliant it brings light into night.

Willard Wyman

#15. You spend so much time, so much effort, trying to hold yourself together.
And then everything falls apart anyway.

David Levithan

#16. I'm already half-dust, Hayley, and I'm tired of trying to hold together what's left.

Katie McGarry

#17. We have arrived at the point where the public are right in thinking that John Prescott no longer serves a purpose in governing the country, only a purpose in trying to hold together the fragile peace in the Labour Party

Andrew Lansley

#18. I thought one way to try to hold on to the power was to write the script myself. That way, I could say to filmmakers, "I'm not asking you to hire me unseen. I'm just saying, 'Here's my script. Can we work together?'" So that worked out well.

Emma Donoghue

#19. I notice faint scars on her wrists and forearms, thin lines too symmetrical to be accidents.

Isaac Marion

#20. You'll see a lot of funny stuff, you'll see a lot of daddy-knows-best stuff, you'll see a lot of me and my wife trying to hold the family together.

Russell Simmons

#21. Goddamn but her mind was so exhausted with trying to hold the world together, tired of being the living glue for herself, as if she let go, great pieces of her life would shatter and fall off in mockery of the apocalypse.

Jim Harrison

#22. We must come together in ways that respect the solitude of the soul that avoid the unconscious violence we do when we try to save each other that evoke our capacity to hold another life without dishonoring its mystery never trying to coerce the other into meeting our own needs.

Parker J. Palmer

#23. She entered the manor, but couldn't help feeling that she was trying to hold together a carpet as dozens of people pulled out threads from the sides.

Brandon Sanderson

#24. Out in the field I try not to hold expectations. I try to achieve an openness. The senses heighten so that I am totally immersed in what's happening at the moment. I want to be receptive to an image coming together.

Keith Lazelle

#25. What the hell is the sense of trying to hold the Democratic party together, if it's really a party of expediency, something that's put together every four years?

Hunter S. Thompson

#26. One of the joys of being in love is that it clarifies your priorities. Complication arises from not knowing what you want.

Philip Sington

#27. 'I thought I could live my life without you,' she says, trying desperately to hold back her tears. 'I can't. I've tried and I can't do it.'

Mike Gayle

#28. She's the fire in my veins, the breath in my lungs, and the glue trying to hold each of my scars together.

Nyrae Dawn

#29. Aren't those vegetables sexy, Rog?" Grant cooed, trying to hold in laughter. "Sexy, sexy veggies. You two need to go on lots of dates together.

Jennifer Lane

#30. Live each day like it's your last, 'cause one day you gonna be right

Ray Charles

#31. I hugged my knees to my chest, desperately trying to hold myself together so I didn't splinter into a thousand pieces. If I let go, no one would ever be able to put the pieces together again.

Cat Clarke