Powerful Hold Quotes
- The word dysfunction has, I think, served its purpose and now has lost its meaning. Every family, like every person, is imperfect, after all. The… — Susan Minot
- Despotism has forever had a powerful hold upon the world. Autocratic government, not self-government, has been the prevailing state of mankind. The record of past… — Calvin Coolidge
- I found 'The Twin' sitting on a coffee table at a writers' colony in 2009. It carried praise from J.M. Coetzee. That seemed ample justification… — Amy Waldman
- My parents genuinely loved Vienna, and in later years I learned from them why the city exerted a powerful hold on them and other Jews.… — Eric Kandel