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Quotes About Hold

Soft, flexible thread of this sort is a necessary prerequisite to making woven cloth. On a far more basic level, string can be used simply to tie things up - to catch, to hold, to carry. From these notions come snares and fishlines, tethers and leashes, carrying nets, handles, and packages, not to mention a way of binding objects together to form more complex tools.
~ Elizabeth Wayland Barber
Blood—" I rasped. "The earth cannot hold all the blood that's shed on it. And so the stream flows below. We have passed through it now; soon it will be gone from you.
~ Ellen Kushner
Explosive force of any mortification. Every vanquished desire affords us power. We have the more hold over this world the further we withdraw from it, the less we adhere to it. Renunciation confers an infinite power.
~ Emil Cioran
I had arrived at an understanding of faith that had far more to do with trust than with certainty. I trusted God to be God even if I could not say who God was for sure. I trusted God to sustain the world although I could not say for sure how that happened. I trusted God to hold me and those I loved, in life and in death, without giving me one shred of conclusive evidence that it was so.
~ Barbara Brown Taylor
Hold me, love me, hold me, love me I ain't got nothing but love, babe Eight days a week
~ beatles quotes ii
If you have security, you can rebel; if you don't, you hold on to any scraps of it that you have.
~ Allegra Huston
Our long memories hold the stories of what our people accomplished, but they also hold the prejudices, the injustices, the harm that we've received from others.
~ Beto O'Rourke
There's this fight for the heart and soul of the Republican Party, and until that fight gets settled - because they're the majority - there's a lot of things that are pretty much on hold.
~ Pete Gallego
A flush of anger crimsoned the old lady's pale face. It looked dead no longer. Hold your tongue, she said. You are rude. And Miss Gladwyn did hold her tongue, but nothing else, for she was laughing all over.
~ George MacDonald
I can press when there needs to be pressed; I can hold hands when there needs to be -- hold hands.
~ George W. Bush
A World Cup is always something special and simply indescribable - and being able to hold something in your hands at the end of it all is just incredible.
~ Miroslav Klose
What thief does not fight to hold what he has?" "One that has something better," said Locke.
~ Scott Lynch
What thief does not fight to hold what he has?" "One that has something better" - Locke Lamora to the Gray king
~ Scott Lynch
Get what you can and keep what you have that's the way to get rich.
~ Scottish Proverb
The FCC has delayed the decision on the Time/Warner Comcast merger. So how do you think those folks like being put on hold?
~ David Letterman
Strength enough to build a home, Time enough to hold a child, Love enough to break a heart
~ Terry Pratchett
At least not until the Terror took hold of him. Not until he saw, night after night, a little boat being rowed across the river. Not until he saw it return at dawn. Not until he saw what his Untouchable son had touched. More than touched. Enter. Loved.
~ Arundhati Roy
But once he put his recommendations down on paper it was hard for hospitals and medical groups not to follow through and hold doctors to the plan.
~ Atul Gawande
She wondered why her normal desire to say little, to hold things closed, broke down before him, why she felt compelled to simple frankness, such as she could offer no one else.
~ Ayn Rand
over her sides, gripping, then
~ Stephanie Laurens
Hold the newsreader's nose squarely, waiter, or friendly milk will countermand my trousers.
~ Stephen Fry
The ladder had always held us before, we thought it would always hold us again, which is a philosophy that gets men and nations in trouble time after time.
~ Stephen King
Pride was the belt you could use to hold up your pants even after your pants were gone
~ Stephen King
Love will fly if held too lightly Love will die if held too tightly . . .
~ Oscar Wilde