Holding Quotes
2165 Holding quotes by 1431 unique authors
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Stop. Breathe those useless breaths. Drop this piece of life you’re holding to your lips. Where are you? How long have you been here? Stop…
— Isaac Marion
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Ant Prune was holding one of the squirrels in her hand. ‘And once a day, we have ta clean their little private parts with a…
— Margaret Stohl
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...finally her hands, so light, holding his head still and catching all his thoughts and imprisoning them there, in the space that no longer existed…
— Paolo Giordano
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You have been walking the ocean's edge, holding up your robes to keep them dry. You must dive naked under and deeper under, a thousand…
— Rumi
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I will be capable of loving, regardless of whether I am loved in return, Of giving, when I have nothing, Of working happily, even in…
— Paulo Coelho
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He's so busy looking inside people to find the good that he misses the knife they're holding in their hand.
— Alexandra Bracken
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Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.
— Orhan Pamuk
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I can't protect you without holding a sword. I can't embrace you while holding a sword.
— Tite Kubo
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It's really not as bad as it sounds. I was attacked by a shark once, back when I was alive. Well, not so much a…
— Derek Landy
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What kind of plan B?" Hale asked. He was almost holding his breath when a voice answered, "My kind." Macey tried to read the look…
— Ally Carter
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Do you see these hands?" Jo said, holding them up. "These were made for caressing handsome men and meant to be adorned with pretty nails…
— Nicholas Sparks
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Marya Morevna, we are better at this than you are. We can hold two terrible ideas at once in our hearts. Never have your folk…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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I have been holding a dialogue with myself and girding myself to stand fast without running.
— Sylvia Plath
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Humor is a way of holding off how awful life can be, to protect yourself.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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We'll choose knowledge no matter what, we'll maim ourselves in the process, we'll stick our hands into the flames for it if necessary. Curiosity is…
— Margaret Atwood
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Holding Eleanor's hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive.
— Rainbow Rowell
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Our culture needs to find a robust image of female success that is first, not male, and second, not a white woman on the phone,…
— Sheryl Sandberg
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The Buddha’s principal message that day was that holding on to anything blocks wisdom. Any conclusion that we draw must be let go. The only…
— Pema Chodron
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When it comes to hating, gossiping, ignoring, ridiculing, holding grudges, or wanting to cause harm, please apply the following: Stop it!
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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We’re staying together,” he promised. “You’re not getting away from me. Never again.” Only then did she understand what would happen. A one-way trip. A…
— Rick Riordan
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No, we don't walk away. But when we're holding on to something precious, we run. We run and run, fast as we can, and we…
— Neil Cross
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Curse false-hand-holding boys!
— Lauren Myracle
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Holding Eleanor’s hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive. As soon as he touched her, he…
— Rainbow Rowell
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You should think about nobody and go your own way, not on a course marked out for you by people holding mugs of water and…
— Alan Sillitoe
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And you won’t leave me?” “No.” Alec said. “No, we won’t ever leave you. You know that.” “Never.” Isabelle took his hand, the one Alec…
— Cassandra Clare
Who Wrote These Holding Quotes
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