Quotes About Holding on

If I was going to fall, I would hang on to my small comforts, at least, as long as I possibly could.

Captain," said one of the guardsmen. "I was here when it happened, watching him on the balcony. It fell right out. Barely a sound. I was standing here, looking out at the Plains and thinking to myself, and next I knew His Majesty was hanging right there, holding on for his life and cursing like a caravan worker." The guard blushed. "Sir.

As a rule, the human mind gets attached to possessions very firmly. They don't want to lose anything. They hold on to the little possession and can't see the big possibilities.

It wasn't good. It was good in the beginning and I held on to that.

Obviously, when you walk into a room and see people like Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman and Charles Martin Smith behind the camera, it's big time. You just try not to think about it, try and keep up, hold on for the ride.

Like me, he has a searing belief that books are sacred. They might not be to other people, but when you have a passion, you hold on to it. You defend it. You dont pretend it isn't important at the risk of offending others. -Carrie.

Don't you *ever* let go? I haven't yet. Why? I suppose... because in this world, after everyone panics, there's always got to be someone to tip the wee out of the shoe.

He closes his hand around mine and I hold on. I like his hand. It's big and holds easy but sure. It's the kind of hold that says, I got you if you want me, but I'll let you go if you feel like running for a while.

The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence.

It's not so much revenge, but I think you want to hold on to a little of that just for extra motivation.

I have hung on with all my strength, but I feel it leaving me. I must give it to you.

I've realized that, sometimes, you have to let people go. But I'm really glad I have someone to hold on to.

I know what it does to you, I know. Maybe that's why we hold on as hard as we do. We just can't believe that such a miracle can happen to us twice. But it can, someday you'll find it again.

He cried that night for all that he had lost, but he would say it taught him a valuable lesson: that holding on to things will only break your heart.

I took my orders, too. But if i couldn't keep you alive, I thought I could at least keep you together. In the middle of a big war, you go looking for a small idea to believe in. When you find one, you hold it the way a soldier holds his crucifix when he's praying in a foxhole.

I nurtured with a view to eventually saying goodbye, he nurtured to hold on.

When you feel like giving up, remember why you held on for so long in the first place. - Unknown

You don't. You just work through it. You just hang in there.

As soon as the numbers get up in a chart - or better yet, a graph - as soon as they thus become blessed with some specious authenticity, they become the drivers in high-risk, low-data situations because these people are so anxious to have data. That's when you hear them saying things like "It will be a billion-dollar market in 2016. If we only get five percent of that market..." When you hear that sort of stuff, exit gracefully, holding on to your wallet.

I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.

I'm almost sad for them. How they can't adjust to the fact that things have changed. That it's not going to be like it was. Just because you have something, just because you hold on tight, doesn't mean it will last. Sometimes you can only watch helplessly as it slips from your grasp. You say good-bye before your ready. You may even refuse to say good-bye at all. Still, it slips away

Wars begin and wars end. There will be peace again. We only need to hold on to who we are, deep within, so that we'll recognize ourselves on the other side when it's over.

You see, I tired of constant fear, so I made a decision. Every day when I wake I tell myself that it will be my last. If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it.

I look down at our linked fingers as I loosen my grasp, but he regains his grip on me. "No, don't let go of me," he says.