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Quotes About Holds

Everywhere the same law holds good: 'There is no weapon of your individual will which, once appropriated by others, does not turn against you.' If
~ Raoul Vaneigem
The radical intelligence in the moderate position is the only place where the center holds. Or so it seems.
~ Renata Adler
Oh, shame to men! devil with devil damn'd Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational.
~ John Milton
I still have some of Sinclair's money in my pocket so when a waitress comes over and doesn't throw me out I order coffee. That seems to confuse her and she starts naming alternatives. "Maybe you mean an Americano? Maybe a flat white or a macchiato?" "Those all sound like wrestling holds. I just want coffee.
~ Richard Kadrey
I am only a cup that knowledge holds. It does not to knowledge matter how poor the cup is. It is the wisdom of those who drink of me that me wise makes. Fools make a sibyl foolish, wherever she is.
~ Joan D. Vinge
Because civilizations are finite, in the life of each of them there comes a moment when the center ceases to hold. What keeps them at such times from disintegration is not legions but language.
~ Joseph Brodsky
The University of Texas is a place, a special place, that deservedly holds a seat among college football elite.
~ Tom Herman
The universe provides us with a clean slate in every moment; God's creation holds nothing against us.
~ Marianne Williamson
Love resistless in fight, all yield at a glance of thine eye, Love who pillowed all night on a maiden's cheek dost lie, Over the upland holds. Shall mortals not yield to thee?
~ Sophocles
Comedy is a very rough beat. It's no holds barred, as it should be.
~ Joan Rivers
I'm the guy who holds the most coveted title in all of sports entertainment, that's because I deserve it! Nobody deserves it more than me.
~ Tommaso Ciampa
A lot of U.K. wrestlers are very good at chain wrestling, telling a story through holds, while American wrestling is a little more flashy, with lots of high-spots.
~ Big Show
Before going to developmental, I had next to no fundamentals and that was sort of, doing cool chain wrestling and using a lot of holds and stuff.
~ Kenny Omega
There's probably a hundred more submission holds in the WWE because of me training to bring in those submissions so people could look at them a legitimize them for pro wrestling. You look at it before I was there and after I was there: it's different matches.
~ Ken Shamrock
Both Empedocles and Heraclitus held it for a truth that man could not be altogether cleared from injustice in dealing with beasts as he now does.
~ Plutarch
I think speed climbing is kind of an artificial discipline. Climbers compete on the same holds and train on the same holds, which doesn't have much in common with the climbing philosophy in my opinion.
~ Adam Ondra
the marriage twists, holds firm, a sailor's knot.
~ Anne Sexton
One of the nice things about indoor training is you can make holds that are better on your skin, so you can train more before your fingers wear out. You can get stronger faster climbing inside.
~ Tommy Caldwell
The Mont Blanc, with 2,925 tons of explosives in barrels and kegs, packed in hermetically sealed holds inside a super-heated hull, was now the most powerful bomb the war and the world had ever produced.
~ Laura M. MacDonald
Belief in God is so deranged that it makes absolutely no sense, but it holds people together somehow.
~ Peter Morgan
You have gained a new source of enjoyment, and it is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.
~ Jane Austen
it is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.
~ Jane Austen
Beauty is but skin deep, ugly lies the bone; Beauty dies and fades away, but ugly holds its own
~ Unknown
The sun, coming hard around the world: the island rises from the sea, sinks, rises, holds.
~ Peter Matthiessen