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Quotes About Hold

gifts — that strange word, a signifier meaning disappointment you can hold in your hands.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Moon's gravitational pull means that earth doesn't wobble too much. Scientists call it obliquity. The moon holds us fast.
~ Jeanette Winterson
That strategy of buy and hold, which is the sound and sensible one for the individual, can have very dangerous and perverse effects for the market as a whole.
~ Ron Chernow
It's always a good idea to chill your crab cake mixture for a few hours, or even overnight, before frying because they'll hold together better.
~ Tom Douglas
Idleness for me is not a giving up on life but a spirited grabbing hold of it.
~ Tom Hodgkinson
Operation Hold the Line in 1993 in the El Paso sector.
~ Paul Theroux
Operation Hold the Line in 1993 in the El Paso sector. "The idea was to put a huge number of Border Patrol agents in urban areas
~ Paul Theroux
But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we're in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction. If the general opinion is pessimistic, fantasy is going to hold its own.
~ David Eddings
Come, my spade; there is no ancient gentlemen but gardeners, ditchers, and gravemakers; they hold up Adam's profession.
~ William Shakespeare
You wait on nature's mischief. Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark To cry "Hold, hold!
~ William Shakespeare
You could build a world out of need or you could hold everything black and see. You give back the lack. You hold everything black. You give yourself back until nothing's left but the dissolving blues of metaphor.
~ Claudia Rankine
for overstrong was the command to hold fast to each smallest particle of time, to the smallest particle of every circumstance, and to embody all of them in memory as if they could be preserved in memory through all deaths for all times.
~ Hermann Broch
You can take a thing when no one's looking. But defending it, even with all the advantage on your side, is no easy task," Madoc told her with a laugh. She looked up to find him offering her a hand. "Power is much easier to acquire than it is to hold on to.
~ Holly Black
You can take a thing when no one's looking. But defending it, even with all the advantage on your side, is no easy task,' Madoc told her with a laugh. She looked up to find him offering her a hand. 'Power is much easier to acquire than it is to hold on to.
~ Holly Black
Power is much easier to acquire than it is to hold on to.
~ Holly Black
The truth is that trust is a gift, it's something we all can lose So hold on, it's not where it goes, it's where it can lead you to.
~ Unknown
If my love can hold you, I'll keep you with me.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Once he had taken hold, he did not let go. It was not a handshake, it was a possession.
~ Lisa Kleypas
I know it's stupid to not own a gun yet have so many triggers, but in some other world gigantic seashells hold humans to their ears and listen to the echo of machines.
~ Jeffrey McDaniel
The only force more powerful than what's about to befoul the checkout line is my passionate abhorrence for the lyric "Yip yip yip yip yip yip yip yip / Mum mum mum mum mum mum / Get a job," so I manage to hold everything together
~ Jen Lancaster
No biographical subject is ever on hold with the orthodontist. If there's a dry spell, it's your job to curtail or eliminate it.
~ Stacy Schiff
our brains are minuscule fragments of the universe, much too small to hold all the facts of the world but not too idle to speculate about them.
~ Unknown
When we hold on to our opinions with aggression, no matter how valid our cause, we are simply adding more aggression to the planet, and violence and pain increase.
~ Pema Chodron
A company that is not able to attract, motivate, and hold men of talent and competence will not survive. Increasingly, this will mean attracting, motivating, and holding the knowledge worker. Unlike the manual worker of yesterday, the knowledge worker does not, however, look just for a job. He looks for a career. He looks for an opportunity.
~ Peter F. Drucker