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Quotes About Hold

But against love, the case was solid. Easily argued. And you could, indeed, hold it in your hand.
~ Sarah Dessen
If you grow up the type of woman men want to hold, You can let them hold you. All day they practice keeping their bodies upright. Even after all this evolving it still feels unnatural, Still strains the muscles, holds firm the arms and spine. Only some men will want to learn what it feels like to curl themselves into a question mark around you, Admit they don't have the answers they thought they would by now.
~ Sarah Kay
A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You signed a contract. But much more important than that, you gave your word. And I intend to hold you to that word within the bounds of the law. If necessary, without the bounds of the law.
~ John and Brand, Josh Falsey
My obsession with time informs my poetry so completely it is hard for me to summarize it. We want time to pass, for new things to happen to us, we want to hold on to certain moments, we don't want our lives to end.
~ John Barton
Hold him till we get there, comrade," said another, who then appeared to reconsider. "Hang on, how big is he?" The dwarf examined David. "Not very big," he said. "Dwarf and a half. Dwarf and two-thirds at most.
~ John Connolly
I thought the ice could hold you if it could hold a one-hundred-and-eighty-pound wolf." She sniffled and raised a brow. "What exactly are you implying?" Taking Hold
~ Anya Bast
I think a responsibility comes with notoriety, but I never think of it as power. It's more like something you hold, like grains of sand. If you keep your hand closed, you can have it and possess it, but if you open your fingers in any way, you can lose it just as quickly.
~ Diana Ross
I know places you better speak low if you've been to college. Men will come across the room and cold-deck you if you hold your glass wrong.
~ Steve Prefontaine
Khabib is one of the GOATs as well. Nothing but respect for the dude. But I'm very, very hard to hold down.
~ Alexander Volkanovski
When I got the script for 'Winter Soldier,' I was so excited to see that my character finally gets to punch somebody! So I took tae kwon do three times a week. I wanted to feel like I could hold my own in a roomful of superheroes.
~ Cobie Smulders
The U.S. has strategic and economic interests in Southeast Asia that must be secured. Holding Indochina is essential to securing these interests. Therefore, we must hold Indochina.
~ Noam Chomsky
A photographer must be prepared to catch and hold on to those elements which give distinction to the subject or lend it atmosphere.
~ Bill Brandt
So, the point was to be able to have a medium that would record all the connections and all the structures and all the thoughts that paper could not. Since the computer could hold any structure in any form, this was the way to go.
~ Ted Nelson
once you settle on an island, you never leave, an island holds on to what it has with all its might and main.
~ Roy Jacobsen
If the writer wants to create suspense, or build tension, or make the reader wait and wonder, or join a journey of discovery, or hold on for dear life, he can save subject and verb of the main clause until later. As I just did.
~ Roy Peter Clark
Recognizing happiness when it's lying at your feet, having the will and courage to reach down and take it in your arms--and to hold on to it--that's the heart's intelligence. Intelligence minus the heart is just logic, and that doesn't amount to much. - Arthur
~ Marc Levy
I wait, for the household to assemble. Household: that is what we are. The Commander is the head of the household. The house is what he holds. To have and to hold, till death do us part. The hold of a ship. Hollow.
~ Margaret Atwood
So I have. Let me hold the baby, Scarlett. Oh, I know how to hold babies. I have many strange accomplishments. Well, he certainly looks like Frank. All except the whiskers, but give him time." "I hope not. It's a girl.
~ Margaret Mitchell
Until I realize that it's all I gift, I can hold all of it and yet receive none of it.
~ Craig D. Lounsbrough
And there is another kind of strength in you. A daring, and a hunger, and aloneness. And that hunger and aloneness I know, and I kiss with the lips I do not have; I hold with the arms I do not have; I press to the heart in me that isn't there to beat with warmth.
~ Anne Rice
He had no choice in the matter, if he left her hanging by the straps she'd end up being banged against the side of the aircraft. Not good for her, not good for the plane's stability. You always fastened down a cargo, you didn't leave it loose in the back of a plane. That was all he was doing, he told himself putting his arms around her to hold her limp body still, letting her head loll back against his shoulder. Keeping the cargo secure. It was his own damn fault he was getting hard again.
~ Anne Stuart
There was an expression on her face at certain times, an expression of unconscious joy which came from a part of her he had always coveted, a separate being he never saw when he was with her. He had seen that being in the arena or the hunt, skimming the green pastures towards the high fences, all there between the posts and over the water, winging on danger and delight, a bird soaring with a singing face. He wanted to hold that bird.
~ Sheri S. Tepper
Of course, they haven't seen your reports yet. (Joe) 'They would have if Carlos could have held a gun on the computer to make that piece of shit send an e-mail.' (Carlos)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon