Holding Quotes

2165 Holding quotes by 1431 unique authors

I would rather starve and rot and keep the privilege of speaking the truth as I see it, than of holding all the offices that… — Henry Adams
Governments, whatever their pretensions otherwise, try to preserve themselves by holding the individual down ... Government itself, indeed, may be reasonably defined as a conspiracy… — H. L. Mencken
I don't think that Israel has any legal or moral justification for their massive bombing of the entire nation of Lebanon. What happened is that… — Jimmy Carter
In Holman Hunt's painting, "The Light of the World, "Christ is shown in a garden at midnight, holding a lantern in His left hand. With… — James Keller
I feel so lucky that I met the love of my life. You know somebody's in it to win it when...you're having a seizure and… — Kathleen Hanna
My mother-in-law was with me during all four of my births and when she was sitting next to me holding my hand during the cesareans,… — Patricia Heaton
A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a love… — Laura Bush
Now it's a fully realized production but for the fact that we're holding our scripts in our hand and some of us used them, and… — Blair Underwood
It is time for the government of China to stop holding innocent religious figures in captivity merely for peacefully protesting China's occupation of Tibet. — Sam Brownback
Without territory, it does not even have the resources to provide detention facilities for prisoners, even if it were interested in holding captured POWs. — John Yoo
We're traditional and don't do cutting-edge styles, but after 17 years we're holding our own. — Jaclyn Smith
"Ay," said the Captain, reverentially; "it's a almighty element. There's wonders in the deep, my pretty. Think on it when the winds is roaring and… — Charles Dickens
You know, my boy, he said, it's impossible to love men such as they are. And yet we must. So try to do good to… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Seventeen's not so young. A hundred years ago people got married when they were practically our age." "Yeah, that was before electricity and the Internet.… — Jenny Han
There is a spiritual law of choosing, believing, abiding, and holding steady in our walk with God, which is essential to the working of the… — Lettie Cowman
- Oh no, The Collective Farm policy was a terrible struggle... Ten million (he said holding up his hands). It was fearful. Four years it… — Joseph Stalin
If you have a problem or desire a healing, try this exercise before falling asleep. Catch yourself at that point just before you fall asleep… — Harold Klemp
Remember, Monsieur, that the downfall of most Communities comes from the cowardice of Superiors in not holding firm and in not purging them of the… — Vincent de Paul
A collection of bad love songs, tattered from overuse, has to touch us like a cemetery or a village. So what if the houses have… — Marcel Proust
I met Jay Jonhson. I won him the way poor people occasionally win the lottery: Shameless perseverance and embarrassingly dumb luck, and every time I… — Amy Bloom
For what is history, but... huge libel on human nature, to which we industriously add page after page, volume after volume, as if we were… — Washington Irving
I became an ifrit to save the lives of my fellow jinn. What kind of life saver would I be if I let you sit… — Jackson Pearce
Now we're like planets, holding to each other from a great distance. [...] Now we're hundreds of miles apart, our short arms keep us lonely,… — Anne Michaels
A father who finds it difficult to express his love vocally for his children may need, at first, to be humbly obedient in holding family… — Neal A. Maxwell
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… — Thomas S. Monson

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