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Quotes About Hold

I have to sit on the edge of the tub for a minute. As the adrenaline in my system winds down, the holes in my chest and back start to get to me. I have to hold on and breathe for a while until the dizziness passes.
~ Richard Kadrey
Camel-nose laughed deep in his muscled throat as if I'd just told him the one about the lumberjack and the water barrel. But he didn't relax his hold on my wrist.
~ Richard S. Prather
The paint doesn't move the way the light reflects, so what's there to be faithful to? I am faithful to you, darling. I say it to the paint. The bird floats in the unfinished sky with nothing to hold it.
~ Richard Siken
Some easy-listening Muzak came onto the phone. I held it away from my ear. If you listened close for long, it gave you cavities.
~ Robert B. Parker
Now begins The tenebrific passage of the tale: How hold a light, display the cavern's gorge? How, in this phase of the affair, show truth?
~ Robert Browning
I do not see why I should e'er turn back, Or those should not set forth upon my track To overtake me, who should miss me here And long to know if still I held them dear. They would not find me changed from him they knew— Only more sure of all I thought was true.
~ Robert Frost
side. "Hold up!" said an elderly rabbit at the gap. "Sixpence for the
~ Kenneth Grahame
There's nothing in heaven or earth that could make me let go of her, not so long as she wants me to hold on.
~ Kersten Hamilton
It is appropriate for the "men of Issachar" to strive to "understand the times" and do battle with those ideas that corrupt the world (1 Chron. 12:32, 2 Cor. 10:4-5). On the other hand, the Christian reader must consciously hold the ideas at arm's length, so as not to commune with the unfruitful works of darkness, or meditate long and hard on things that are not true, not lovely, and not pure (Phil. 4:8).
~ Kevin Swanson
We were the pair. One too afraid to feel anything lest she lose control of her ironclad hold on her emotions, and the other so hungry to feel anything that she´d risk her free will for one night of fun....
~ Kim Harrison
It is fucking crazy to hold on to one moment and say that's the moment that was pure and sacred, and it can only be like that, and I'll kill you if you try to change anything.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
But sometimes it seems to me that people just like to hold on to their grievances. Righteous indignation is like some kind of drug or religious mania, addictive and stupidifying.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
The word 'religion' takes on a sinister cast when one examines its root, religare, meaning 'to bind,' which in turn means 'to hold, to make prisoner, to restrain.
~ Annie Laurie Gaylor
You look angry," he said. "You put me on hold." "For a very good reason." "You put me," she said very, very slowly, "on hold.
~ Derek Landy
Lament turned to Skulduggery. "Do you want me to hold your hand?" "I'd rather you didn't." "Perfectly understandable," Lament said.
~ Derek Landy
There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue
~ Elizabeth I
I once did hold it, as our statists do, A baseness to write fair, and labour'd much How to forget that learning; but, sir, now It did me yeoman's service.
~ William Shakespeare
To grasp and hold a vision, that is the very essence of successful leadership-not only on the movie set where I learned it, but everywhere.
~ Ronald Reagan
Lips twitching spasmodically, Devon put me back in the hold, and I did the only thing I could think of to alleviate his guilt and put him in fighting mode for real. "Armani is for mama's boys, and a movie doesn't count as a real film if nothing gets blown up." You're going down, Bronwyn. Them's fighting words.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
life and the hold it had over you. It might seem extreme, but it works. Time after time.
~ Jennifer McMahon
The truth is that white Americans often hold their biggest disdain for other white Americans—the ones on the opposite side of the cultural divide.
~ Amy Chua
Please, don't—
~ Amy Lane
It is my absolute intent to hold the line on taxes.
~ Jon Corzine
Your first task is to look at those emotions that are continually infecting your ideas and decisions. Learn to question yourself: Why this anger or resentment? Where does this incessant need for attention come from? Under such scrutiny, your emotions will lose their hold on you.
~ Robert Greene