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Quotes About Hold

We are constantly nothing but a bunch of energy being processed. Into this whirlpool, the more complex the system, the more energy it requires to hold it together. Therefore, the more complex - the scientists call it 'coherent' - the more fluctuations are possible.
~ Marilyn Ferguson
Paradox is the only basket large enough to hold truth:
~ Robert Farrar Capon
she was on the telephone, wearing that expression of disinterested attentiveness that betokens a person on hold.
~ Robert Galbraith
The Dispatcher had played with his phones, calling from one to the other. Then he put them all down and announced that he had them on "hold," a curious expression since it was the first time in half an hour he hadn't been holding one.
~ Robert Lynn Asprin
And now I understand that truth casts a spell of its own, one I'm not sure of how to hold on to, though I'm desperate to try.
~ Libba Bray
Unspeakable nightmares surround the men now. They would scream if they could. It's no use. The dream has them, and it will not relinquish its hold. Ever. Back in their beds on Mott Street. the men's bodies go limp. But behind their closed lids, their eyes move frantically as, one by one, they are pulled deeper and deeper into a nightmare from which they will never, ever wake.
~ Libba Bray
A mountain keeps an echo deep inside itself. That's how I hold your voice.
~ Rumi
There were many who needed to grab on, and a small number who needed to hold on. In that kind of situation, where you have a basic identity shared with those who are far away from God, the charge is to repent. We might describe this as vicarious repentance
~ Douglas Wilson
My shoe is off. My foot is cold. I have a bird I like to hold.
~ Dr. Seuss
At a moment that comes rarely in the life of a country. It is a time when destiny is ours to hold.
~ Paul Martin
they could hold him in the murder of Officer Tippit. The evidence was far from overwhelming but it was sufficient. For Oswald, the real
~ Jim Bishop
Memories are fragile things to hold, but many times, it's what we have.
~ Ann Howard Creel
The tension drained from her face and she softened in his hold until she was again the fluid, responsive woman who had kissed him within an inch of his life. This time he knew better than to restrain her when she slipped from the bed. He bit back an appeal for her to stay with him. If his life depended on it, he couldn't say whether he wanted her to stay an hour, a day, or forever.
~ Anna Campbell
But this is irrational. If you wouldn't buy a stock today, you ought not hold it today, because a decision to hold is the same as a decision to buy.
~ Annie Duke
I am a woman and my business is to hold things together. My business is to tear them apart.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
For this is wisdom-- to love and 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 we greet its flow, To have and to hold, and, in time-- let go.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
I understand the politics of Washington, D.C. You need to hold firm, you need to work with your colleagues, and you need to throw elbows.
~ Jimmy Gomez
I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant. I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
~ William Tecumseh Sherman
I will not let thee go. I hold thee by too many bands: Thou sayest farewell, and lo! I have thee by the hands, And will not let thee go.
~ Robert Seymour Bridges
The thing was, I didn't love him anymore. You can woo a girl with a poem, but you can't hold onto her with a poem. Not even with a whole poetry movement.
~ Roberto Bolano
We are here, Fitz, you and I, to change the future of the world. To reach out and hold in place the tiny pebble that could trigger the boulder's tumbling.
~ Robin Hobb
Love was poetry in its purest form. It existed when it did, and there was nothing that could match it's truth, its mystifying magnetism, its unequaled emotion. Love was a perfectly written sentence without using sound, and unparalleled array of visual harmony without using color. You created it, and it was there to have and to hold without your ever actually being able to see it. It just was.
~ Robin Schwarz
It was an architecture of relationships, of connections that I yearned to understand. I wanted to see the shimmering threads that hold it all together.
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
Ever hear of finders keepers?
~ Lisa Scottoline