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Quotes About Hold

I know that the whole point—the only point—is to find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go.
~ Lauren Oliver
For this is Wisdom; to love, to live To take what fate, or the Gods may give. To ask no question, to make no prayer, To kiss the lips and caress the hair, Speed passion's ebb as you greet its flow To have, -to hold -and -in time, -let go!
~ Laurence Hope
But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.
~ Charles Dickens
speckled spiders, indolent and fat with long security, swing idly to and fro in the vibration of the bells, and never loose their hold upon their thread-spun castles in the air,
~ Charles Dickens
He felt so tired and angry. Maybe his anger was mostly caused by his exhaustion and lack of hope. And don't forget the fear, he told himself. Fear that the good causes never win—that they can only hold up evil for a while.
~ Guillermo del Toro
She'd whisper to me to take my tiny piece of happiness, hold its honey in my mouth until it melts away.
~ Guy Vanderhaeghe
Have faith in love, there is a strength and a blessing so large that you want to hold on tighter.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
It's crazy what our hearts accept when knowing how much pain it will cause. I'd rather show someone love then to hold that in, even if they don't love me back. I know how to love but I don't know how to believe I'm loved when the actions prove what love is not.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
If you can pick the baby up without him squirting our of your hands like a bar of soap in the shower, he's not oiled up enough.
~ James Lileks
What I think is that we in the church - and especially I as an Archbishop - I'm responsible for maintaining our rules, and making sure we hold to unity in the Body of Christ.
~ George Carey
O subtle love! a thousand wiles thou hast, by humble suit, by service, or by hire, to win a maiden's hold,--a thing soon done, for nature framed all women to be won.
~ Torquato Tasso
Do you see how the sky holds the sun?In a powerful but effortless way that shows off her beauty and strength?That's how a King holds his Queen.
~ J.A. ANUM
I came," she said, "hoping you could talk me out of a fantasy." Cherish it!" cried Hilarious, fiercely. "What else do any of you have? Hold it tightly by it's little tentacle, don't let the Freudians coax it away or the pharmacists poison it out of you. Whatever it is, hold it dear, for when you lose it you go over by that much to the others. You begin to cease to be.
~ Thomas Pynchon
No one was perfect! And maybe that was what real, adult love was. Being fearless enough to hold each other close no matter how catastrophic the world became. Loving each other with enough ferocity to quell the fears of the past. Just fucking being there.
~ Tia Williams
I can hold a note as long as the Chase National Bank.
~ Ethel Merman
because I want to see the last one fall. I'm tired of waiting. I'm tired of thinking. I want to turn loose my hold on everything, and go sailing down, down, just like one of those poor, tired leaves.
~ O. Henry
Not a day passes when the eagle of dark depression doesn't take flight in my soul, said Sunay, infusing his words with mysterious pride. But I cannot catch myself. So hold yourself in. All's well that ends well.
~ Orhan Pamuk
It was astonishingly light, to hold all the hope and future of a great race within it.
~ Orson Scott Card
Water dissolves more substances than any other liquid, even acid. 465 It disrupts the forces of attraction that hold molecules together.
~ Colum McCann
The Master said, "Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous." The Master said, "The study of strange doctrines is injurious indeed!"               The Master said, "Yu, shall I teach you what knowledge is? When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it;-this is knowledge.
~ Confucius
Men say they only learn this but he said that no creature can learn that which his heart has no shape to hold.
~ Cormac McCarthy
What terrible human presumption it is to catch other living creatures and hold them captive!
~ Cornelia Funke
Tenderly, be not impatient, (Strong is your hold O mortal flesh, Strong is your hold O love.)
~ Walt Whitman
Cycles ferried my cradle, rowing and rowing like cheerful boatmen; For room to me stars kept aside in their own rings, They sent influences to look after what was to hold me.
~ Walt Whitman