Top 100 What Holds Quotes
#1. When I first read 'The River,' I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it's much simpler: It's about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what's relevant to their lives.
Laura Donnelly
#2. We know that we cannot live together without rules which tell us what is right and what is wrong, what is permitted and what is prohibited. We know that it is law which enables men to live together, that creates order out of chaos. We know that law is the glue that holds civilization together.
Robert Kennedy
#3. What holds most people back isn't the quality of their ideas, but their lack of faith in themselves.
Russell Simmons
#4. I suppose a suicide who holds a pistol to his skull feels much the same wonder at what will come next as I felt then.
H.G.Wells
#5. The evening air holds the bittersweet tang of what might have been,
Ally Condie
#6. Don't fight fair; don't worry what you look like," Joshua continued. "Do whatever you have to do to stop our enemy, no holds barred."
"Like a sale at Loehmann's," Brynne said.
Cate Tiernan
#7. It seems like hours pass, both of us staring into each others eyes. I have no idea what she sees that holds her, but I can't look away either. She's giving me the look again, the one that makes me feel like a superhero.
Ashley Stoyanoff
#8. I just believe that if I work hard and do well, who knows what the future holds?
Joaquin Castro
#9. See you and me have a better time than most can dream of, better than the best, so we can pull on through, whatever tears at us, whatever holds us down, and if nothing can be done, we'll make the best of what's around.
Dave Matthews Band
#10. I believe I don't know what the future holds, but I know who holds the future. I know who and what holds the future. I trust that beyond this space and time, all is well, and all will be well.
Oprah Winfrey
#11. We will not deal with men on any terms but ours - and our terms are a moral code which holds that man is an end in himself and not the means to any end of others. We do not seek to force our code upon them. They are free to believe what they please.
Ayn Rand
#12. No one can tell what the future holds, you're backs to the corner, you make the choice of how it goes.
Kenny Loggins
#15. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.
Gautama Buddha
#16. The men who administer public affairs must first of all see that everyone holds onto what is his, and that private men are never deprived of their goods by public men.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#17. Charlize Theron is perfect. She holds herself with so much poise and grace. I don't know if she looks so good because she has the best body or because she has the confidence to feel comfortable in what she's wearing.
Alexandra Daddario
#18. A lot of people say television holds up a mirror to life, and that's why you see all the drug busts and the killings and the seamier side of life. I personally take the view that it's not sufficient to portray only negative role models. It's not enough to say 'no' to drugs. What do you say 'yes' to?
Sherwood Schwartz
#19. A solution exists for every challenge to our peace of mind. There is always a way, somehow. What holds us back from happiness is our lack of faith in the mighty power of the Holy Spirit to address our most humble needs.
Harold Klemp
#20. How sweet it is to learn the Savior's love when nobody else loves us! When friends flee, what a blessed thing it is to see that the Savior does not forsake us but still keeps us and holds us fast and clings to us and will not let us go!
Charles Spurgeon
#21. Most of us have more potential than we will ever develop. What holds us back is often a lack of courage.
Gary Chapman
#22. Id Faciam
What I hate I love. Ask the crucified hand that holds
the nail that now is driven into itself, why.
Catullus
#23. I think that what my parents taught me about hard work, optimism and education still holds true.
Samuel Alito
#24. Tony knows the names of trees and birds. As we walk around, he points them out to me. I try to record them in my mind, but the information never holds. What matters to me is the emotional meaning of the objects.
David Levithan
#25. Now, there is a wonderful thing in this world called "foresight". It is a gift treasured above all others because it allows one to know what the future holds. Most people with foresight end up wielding immense power in life, often becoming great rulers or librarians.
Jonathan Auxier
#26. Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts.
L.M. Montgomery
#27. I feel liberated, empowered, inspired and motivated. Fear holds you back from achieving what you want in life.
Ricki-Lee Coulter
#28. What encouragement the apostle holds out to us. O my friends, that we might leave all our pretensions, and come to the truth in our own hearts.
Elias Hicks
#29. A strong, clear vision holds the power to transcend your current reality, bypassing the day-to-day challenges that might be keeping you stuck where you are. What is your vision?
Debbie Ford
#30. Well, I look at it like this: When you go to a restaurant, the less you know about what happens in the kitchen, the more you enjoy your meal. If the soup tastes good, everything's cool, and you don't necessarily want to know what's in it. The same thing holds true with movies.
Jeffrey Wright
#31. ... worry is an emotional state that I abhor. It tends to be self-absorbed and short-sighted, and holds no purpose other than to waste energy and distract the mind from what actually matters.
Penny Reid
#32. I can tell you what the eye wanted with Sophie ... we heard she was particularly skilled qt Chutes and Ladders, and since The Eye holds a Chutes and Ladders tournament every summer
Rachel Hawkins
#33. Who knows what the future holds? It's all on parenting, one way or another. I don't care what level it is, it comes back to people learning how to deal with people.
Ray Lewis
#34. She knows what it's like to love someone who cannot love you back. Someone who needs you, holds you, yes, but someone who will never know that love is the knife in your heart.
John Dufresne
#35. I'm the only person in the world that, when he holds down two jobs, gets criticized for it; everyone else gets a pat on the back and say, 'What an entrepreneuring, hardworking person,' but apparently that doesn't apply to me.
Jesse Ventura
#36. I know why I am here and my only real focused goal is to live each day to the fullest and to try and honor God and be an encouragement to others. What the future holds is firmly in God's hands, and I am very happy about that!
Ken Hensley
#37. Everything has boundaries. The same holds true with thought. You shouldn't fear boundaries, but you should not be afraid of destroying them. That's what is most important if you want to be free: respect for and exasperation with boundaries.
Haruki Murakami
#38. In keeping with something called self-determination theory, which holds that human beings need three basic things in order to be content: they need to feel competent at what they do; they need to feel authentic in their lives; and they need to feel connected to others.
Sebastian Junger
#39. I would eventually like to write and star in my own stuff. I think I have a good comedic sense, so I'd like to follow that road. I don't know what the future holds, but whatever I do, I'll commit.
Nick Swardson
#40. This Ayden deserves to be happy, regardless of what the future holds, and this Ayden is the one who has to decide why she is settling for milk and cookies when what she really wants is edible body paint and furry handcuffs.
Jay Crownover
#41. My belt holds my pants up, but the belt loops hold my belt up. I don't really know what's happening down there. Who is the real hero?
Mitch Hedberg
#42. Everyone holds a certain type of power. For young people, it's their youth, their attractiveness, and their energy. But they're terrified that as those qualities fade, what are they going to replace that form of power with?
Chuck Palahniuk
#43. Goethe said, "A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart." The same holds true for demons. If you look for evil, you will find it.
Jack Grisham
#44. I am equally excited about the possibilities that music making holds for all people and it's ability to heal what seems to me a chronic imbalance in modern life.
Paul Winter
#45. If I had to explain what Zane was for me he would be the edge pieces of the puzzle. He is what holds me together, but not what defines me.
Megan L. Wieand
#46. Character is what someone does, much more than who they are. I can be sarcastic or I can be fearful, but it doesn't really matter until there's a story - until someone comes in and holds us hostage.
Mitchell Hurwitz
#47. Mercy is God's favour that holds back from us what we deserve. Grace is God's favour that gives us what we do not deserve.
Rolfe Barnard
#48. To come from no voice, no power, and to be able to achieve what I have means that only my own personal vision holds me back.
Oprah Winfrey
#49. The story that you tell yourself is exactly what holds you back from being successful.
Jordan Belfort
#50. But journalists thrive on not knowing exactly what the future holds. That's part of the excitement. Something interesting, something important, will happen somewhere, as sure as God made sour apples, and a good aggressive newspaper will become part of that something.
Ben Bradlee
#51. It's not even a lesson. It's just what it is. Damon holds the baseball up between them. It is hard and white and alive in the sun.
Robert Coover
#52. Werner Heisenberg put it, "what we observe is not nature in itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning." Heisenberg, a German physicist, made this observation regarding quantum mechanics, but it holds equally true for explorations of the animal
Frans De Waal
#53. I don't know what the future holds, but I know that God holds tomorrow, so it is exciting. Even when I have hard things happen, He loves me so big, so much. I come through it and I grow from it, because He has got me.
Barbara Mandrell
#54. Never forget a man who holds a secret holds power. A Chinese proverb says: "If women want to keep a secret, one of them must die." What a splendid prospect, I thought! So far I have not heard one single encouraging word about this job.
John Eppler
#55. Be realistic we're told. Listen to feedback. Play well with others. Compromise. Well, what if the "other" party is wrong? What if conventional wisdom is too conservative? It's this all-too-common impulse to complain, defer, and then give up that holds us back.
Ryan Holiday
#56. I poke around in the pile, about to settle on some cod chowder, when Peeta holds out a can to me. "Here."
I take it, not knowing what to expect. The label reads LAMB STEW.
Suzanne Collins
#57. He [the prince] holds to what is right when he can but knows how to do wrong when he must.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#59. The unfortunate reality is that what holds most people back is actually their own beliefs that they are not good enough or deserving enough to be successful.
Jay Samit
#60. What the advocates of our dangerous and deepening social amnesia don't understand is how deeply the past holds the future in its grip - even, and perhaps especially, when it remains unacknowledged.
Timothy B. Tyson
#61. The only certainty is that we never know what tomorrow holds. We live for today, life is short, so let's enjoy it together while we can.
Jinxx
#62. I don't have the slightest idea what my future holds, but what I do know is that I am capable of figuring it out, and I'm okay being me while I do that. I have earned the right to trust myself. And this feels like freedom to me. My
Lucetta Zaytoun
#63. What is this sleep which holds you now?
You are lost in the dark and cannot hear me.
The Epic Of Gilgamesh
#64. The desert preserves. What other lands destroy, the desert keeps. It accepts dead things, holds them close, and draws away the rot that would destroy; given time, it mummifies or crystalizes.
Louis L'Amour
#65. Man owns nothing, never will, though he holds on to illusions of such, in the end he finds what is left-character and integrity. And if none be found was he truly here?
By Mark Miller
Mark Miller
#66. Laws are broken. Existence holds to no laws. Existence is what persists, and to persist is to struggle. In the end, the struggle fails.
Steven Erikson
#67. I don't care what he thinks. Only what you think." He holds me tighter. "Like if you think I need to stop biting my nails."
"You've worn your pinkies to nubs," I say cheerfully.
"Or if I need to start ironing my bed spread."
"I DO NOT IRON MY BED SPREAD."
"You do. And I love it.
Stephanie Perkins
#68. If my head holds one thought wise and clear, it's You.
Poor as I am, what I hold dear is You.
No matter how I see myself, I'm nothing ...
Anything I am entirely is You!
Rumi
#69. What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse.
Henry Miller
#70. From ancient times, the core idea of the soul is the soul is the capacity to integrate different functions into a single being or into a single person. The soul is what holds us all together: what connects our will and our minds and our bodies and connects us to God.
John Ortberg
#71. The happy life does not mean loving what we possess, but possessing what we love. Possession of the beloved, St. Thomas holds, takes place in an act of cognition, in seeing, in intuition, in contemplation.
Josef Pieper
#72. I don't know what my future holds, but I do know who holds my future.
Tim Tebow
#73. I don't want a Christmas you can buy. I don't want a Christmas you can make. What I want is a Christmas you can hold. A Christmas that holds me, remakes me, revives me. I want a Christmas that whispers, Jesus.
Ann Voskamp
#74. Know well what holds you back, and what moves you forward
Gautama Buddha
#75. There is nothing in your background that inherently holds you back or means you can't achieve what others can achieve. You are the master of your own fate, and if you work hard, you can do what you want.
Nicola Sturgeon
#76. Everything of mine is permeated with my love of ideas-both big and small. It doesn't matter what it is, as long as it grabs me and holds me, facinates me. And then I'll run out and something about it ... I write for fun.
Ray Bradbury
#77. This empty shell holds nothing but the echoes of what was.
Jenim Dibie
#78. Live your life as if everyone will discover what you do and who you are. If no one holds your secrets, there's nothing to compel you to male choices that are not your own.
April White
#79. Are we really so far from the Victorians? Much of what our society holds important was shaped in the 19th century.
Kate Williams
#80. What harm is done by that commonplace word? What distinctions will not, cannot be drawn where enemy holds sway? Is the concept "enemy" the enemy of clear thought, therefore of justice? What is gained by its invocation? Perhaps as important, what is lost?
John Jeremiah Sullivan
#81. There has to be certainty and there has to be clarity. There can't be ambiguity, .. This has to be certain, clear in all respects from all the parties so nobody is in any doubt about what the future holds.
Tony Blair
#82. No one holds command over me. No man. No god. No Prince. What is a claim of age for ones who are immortal? What is a claim of power for ones who defy death? Call your damnable hunt. We shall see whom I drag screaming to hell with me.
Hunter S. Thompson
#83. I know my past is not what my future holds.
R. Kelly
#84. Don't insult me today just because I'm poor, you don't know what my future holds!
William Kamkwamba
#85. If you don't know what tomorrow holds, you need to know who holds tomorrow!
Jesse Jackson
#86. Fortunate indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself, and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he can use.
Peter Latham
#87. No member of society has the right to teach any doctrine contrary to what society holds to be true.
Samuel Johnson
#88. The decision to operate at all involves an appraisal of one's own abilities, as well as a deep sense of who the patient is and what she holds dear.
Paul Kalanithi
#89. Death, as has been established, holds little fear - it is but the flesh. The mind is the source of what we are, and it was the mind that they were determined to destroy.
Claire North
#90. There's no accountability anymore, Pierce, no one holds anyone accountable for what they do. It's always someone else's fault. Usually people just blame the victim.
Meg Cabot
#91. That's a real big part of what holds this religion together: it's not having to make those critical decisions that many of us have to make, and be responsible for your decisions.
Jon Krakauer
#92. When I re-read, I know what I'm getting. It's like revisiting an old friend. An unread book holds wonderful unknown promise, but also threatens disappointment. A re-read is a known quantity.
Jo Walton
#93. I do not know how long 'twill be, nor what the future holds for me, but this I know, if Jesus leads me, I shall get home someday ...
Lynn Austin
#94. No one holds the power. Just because they might give you a bit of money every now and then doesn't mean that they have the right to change what you do.
Matt Corby
#95. Every day when I get on the floor I give it my all and play because you never know what tomorrow holds.
Russell Westbrook
#96. To theology, ... only what it holds sacred is true, whereas to philosophy, only what holds true is sacred.
Ludwig Feuerbach
#97. Pain of the past never goes away, you just find a way to deal with it. And in the future ... all the promise it holds ... that's what keeps you moving forward, and out of the darkness.
Samantha Towle
#98. I know not what the future holds, but I know who holds the future.
Homer
#99. I happen to know everything there is to know about maple syrup! I love maple syrup. I love maple syrup on pancakes. I love it on pizza. And I take maple syrup and put a little bit in my hair when I've had a rough week. What do you think holds it up, slick?
Vince Vaughn
#100. Look to the past to see what the future holds.
Celia Conrad
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