Quotes About Holding

When Sondheim was visiting the Library of Congress, where the manuscript of 'Porgy and Bess' is housed, he was so overcome with emotion while holding the score in his hands that he shed a tear. He shed several tears, but one of the tears actually fell onto the original manuscript. And he was horrified.

Democratic candidates who run from President Obama in red states where he is unpopular are making a big mistake. Their holding Obama at arm's length deprives voters of a clear choice at the ballot box.

He was like a book that you could feel good holding, that you could talk about without ever having read, that could you recommend.

This world's anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.

But holding Michael had always been like holding a little person, who knew that his feeding would end, who knew that if you were picked up you would be put down, that the comfort came but also went. Without knowing what it was, I'd felt that tension in his little groping arms and fitful legs, the discomfort of the foreknowledge

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Right before I came back to TNA, I had made the decision to just sort of step away from wrestling. Therefore I really walked into TNA holding nothing back and let the chips fall where they fell.

Die Blätter fallen, fallen wie von weit, als welkten in den Himmeln ferne Gärten; sie fallen mit verneinender Gebärde. Und in den Nächten fällt die schwere Erde aus allen Sternen in die Einsamkeit. Wir alle fallen. Diese Hand da fällt. Und sieh dir andre an: es ist in allen. Und doch ist Einer, welcher dieses Fallen unendlich sanft in seinen Händen hält.

One cannot reduce terror by holding over the world the threat of what it most fears.

No opinions would be worth holding except by those who read works in the original.

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

Men love their fears. That is why they hold on to them so tightly. You've learned something very young, Prince, something that even older men rarely understand. You've learned that fear isn't a terrible-looking thing but something lovely and seductive.

Don't worry. I'm only your escort tonight. I would offer to protect you from the drunken attentions of the other men, but I know all too well that you're quite capagble of holding your own.

That's what I want to be when I grow up, just a peaceful wreck holding hands with other peaceful wrecks.

2.07 WALK OF LIFELife but like a cycle that you be riding, You will fall if you ever stop peddling, Life not of good cards you be holding, But those held and how you be playing.[68] - 4

This is what the sprouts teach: immortality is not a matter of holding on, but of letting go.

As if (I remember thinking) some monstrous giant had been holding mad carnival with itself at the end of that great passage.

If an individual owns a small business, the equity-oriented nature of the private holding argues for a lower equity position in the investor's financial holdings. Investors benefit from taking the broadest view of their financial circumstances.

They sit for a long time, hidden away in the small crater. Holding each other like refugees from a storm… Beneath Ora's body are the cool stone and the whole mountain, enormous and solid and infinite. She thinks: How thin is the crust of the earth

The length of the fall is dictated by how far we had climbed. The outcome of the fall is dictated by whether we're holding on to that which we're climbing, or we're letting God hold onto us.

Being away from home was tough, but the challenge and the thrill of being on Broadway was so fulfilling, and I'm thankful to my husband for making it possible and holding it down at home.

When I heard Cristiano Ronaldo was pictured holding a manbag, I was surprised it was a gucci bag and not another guy's sack.

No...No...We don't walk away but when we're holding on to something precious we run. We run away. We run as fast as we can.

It was about forgiving. I understood that forgiveness itself was strong, durable—like strands of a web weaving around us, holding us.