Quotes About Hold

There's a word a friend of mine coined for that feeble gesture we make as if we're going to hold the door, when in reality we've got no intention of it. He calls it "to elefain.

Don't shut love out of your life by saying it's impossible to find time. The quickest way to receive love is to give; the fastest way to lose love is to hold it too tightly; and the best way to keep love is to give it wings.

The mob is a sort of bear; while your ring is through its nose, it will even dance under your cudgel; but should the ring slip, and you lose your hold, the brute will turn and rend you.

October turned my maple's leaves to gold; The most are gone now; here and there one lingers; Soon these will slip from out the twig's weak hold, Like coins between a dying miser's fingers.

Let him now speak, or else hereafter for ever hold his peace.

Never resist temptation: prove all things: hold fast that which is good.

It is in the hard rockpile labour of seeking to win, hold, or deserve a reader's interest that the pleasant agony of writing comes in.

What did she say? Eve asked when they got into the car. Here's love, she said, to hold until next we meet and I give you more.

Auf den Stachel des Begehrens haben wir nur eine Antwort: fangen, einschließen, festhalten.

hold on to your winners and cut your losers.

LIfe has got all those twists and turns. You've got to hold on tight and off you go.

Hold it, Doc, a world war passed through my brain. He said, Nurse, get your pad, this boy's insane.

I sing sometimes for the war that I fight, 'Cause every tool is a weapon if you hold it right.

Maybe we should hold the next [Olympic] games in Afghanistan and hope the Soviets pull out of that one too.

If it was true. This case was jammed with lies, couldn't grab hold of it without getting a handful.

men say, that false Dreams hold, clinging

There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.

In spite of certain distressing but isolated occurrences in the last battle, I certainly hoped that the Army would be in a position to continue to hold out.

People are saying I hold and spoil, but you don't get to win Olympic gold without a bit of power and ability.

The best way to hold a man is in your arms.

resemblance between Fortune and women and concludes that it is the bold rather than the cautious man that will win and hold them both.

When a newly acquired State has been accustomed, as I have said, to live under its own laws and in freedom, there are three methods whereby it may be held. The first is to destroy it; the second, to go and reside there in person; the third, to suffer it to live on under its own laws, subjecting it to a tribute, and entrusting its government to a few of the inhabitants who will keep the rest your friends

Machiavelli moralizes on the resemblance between Fortune and women, and concludes that it is the bold rather than the cautious man that will win and hold them both.

I am here to love you, to hold you in my arms, to protect you.