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Quotes About Hold

Money ain't the root of all evil," Coydog had told the boy Li'l Pea, "but it get a hold on some people like vines on a tree or the smell'a fungus on damp sheets. They's some people need money before love or laughter. All you can do is feel sorry for someone like that.
~ Walter Mosley
Chapter XVII The Hold of a Highland Robber
~ Walter Scott
Motivation is what happens when you take hold of an idea. Inspiration is what happens when an idea takes hold of you.
~ Wayne W. Dyer
You do not pursue potential conflict unless you hold power over your foe.
~ Harvey Pekar
This is the starting point of dance: something -- the music, the steps, your partner -- holds you but you also have to hold it and, to achieve the necessary tension, hold yourself against it.
~ Lavinia Greenlaw
And my real enemy is not to hold the specimen sterile, but it's the lighting. The light is our real enemy. So we have to work with very very poor lighting. But we can increase the light with computers.
~ Lennart Nilsson
Ranger's Cayenne pulled in behind the SUV. Ranger got out, scooped me up off the ground, and held me close.
~ Janet Evanovich
We don't believe used games are in the best interest of the consumer. We have products that consumers want to hold onto. They want to play all of the levels of a 'Zelda' game and unlock all of the levels.
~ Reggie Fils-Aime
And my real enemy is not to hold the specimen sterile, but it's the lighting. The light is our real enemy. So we have to work with very very poor lighting. But we can increase the light with computers.
~ Lennart Nilsson
I wanted to hold onto and exploit the power of narrative. This is not only a book about a great storyteller, but there have to be stories about the storyteller.
~ Stephen Greenblatt
The anchors now made are contrived so as to sink into the ground as soon as they reach it, and to hold a great strain before they can be loosened or dislodged from their station.
~ William Falconer
e.g., "Hold east of the Tiverton VOR, as published, expect further clearance at 1415 Zulu, time now 1345 Zulu.").
~ Timothy E. Heron
Racism been over. It's the old people that keep on holding on to it.
~ ASAP Ferg
Illness transforms the things you most fear into the things you crave and would hold onto if you could.
~ Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
The fact that we see some people doing what appears to be good civic-minded deeds may be because that is their true intention, and it may be that that is their best way to hold onto power in a setting where they have to depend on a lot of people.
~ Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
"…And if you hurt me, that's okay baby, only words bleed. Inside these pages you just hold me, and I won't ever let you go. Wait for me to come home."
~ Ed Sheeran
Anger is like the blade of a butcher knife - very difficult to hold on to for long without harming yourself.
~ Patti LaBelle
A man will talk about how he'd like to escape from living folks. but it's the dead folks that do him the damage. It's the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and don't try to hold him, that he cant escape from
~ William Faulkner
OPHELIA] I am Ophelia. She who the river could not hold.
~ Heiner Müller
Always do that, wild ducks do. Go plunging right to the bottom… as deep as they can get… hold on with their beaks to the weeds and stuff—and all the other mess you find down there. Then they never come up again.
~ Henrik Ibsen
but are you really so in love? - Oh, it is not that at all. It is not that, it is some kind of power that has seized me and holds me. I do not know what to do.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Near Indeed Closer Between Just One Atmosphere H.O.P.E Hold On Pains Ends
~ Leticia Bufoni
Two words: Kasim Sulton. I've been a Utopia fan for a long, long time, and Kasim's a pop hero of mine. I have to hold myself back from asking him a million Utopia questions.
~ Paul Gilbert
Athera could ill afford the consequence if the Mistwraith that afflicted the world was ever to yield its hold on sunlight.
~ Janny Wurts