Quotes of Holding - somelinesforyou

“ Creation is a better means of self-expression than possession. Iit is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed. ”

- Vida D. Scudder

“ I maintain my sanity by keeping my distance. ”

- Luis Miguel

“ Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands? ”

- Ernest Gaines

“ They're so lifelike, I became curiously fond of them. There was one little female velociraptor who had a cute haircut, but it was never anything more than holding hands - holding claws. ”

- Sam Neill

“ I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge. ”

- Edward Chilton

“ You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them! ”

- Amy Tan

“ True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home. ”

- John Hay

“ Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life. ”

- Joan Lunden

“ Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. ”

- Josh Billings

“ Every great work, every great accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement. ”

- Florence Scovel Shinn

“ JEWS-HARP, n. An unmusical instrument, played by holding it fast with the teeth and trying to brush it away with the finger. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ REVIEW, v.t. To set your wisdom At work upon a book, and so read out of it The qualities that you have first read into it. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well. ”

- H.T. Leslie

“ Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. ”

- Buddha

“ If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time. ”

- J. K. Rowling

“ If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive. ”

- Dorothee Soelle

“ Some think it's holding on that makes one strong; sometimes it's letting go. ”

- Sylvia Robinson

“ There are dreams stronger than death. Men and women die holding these dreams. ”

- Carl Sandburg

“ You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. ”

- Barbara De Angelis

“ You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on. ”

- Dean Martin

“ Courage is fear holding on a minute longer. ”

- George S. Patton

“ Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from the inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves. ”

- Mitch Albom

“ The art of living lies in a fine mingling of holding on and letting go. ”

- Havelock Ellis

“ You're not really drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on. ”

- Joe E. Lewis

“ If people only knew how much I secretly hated them, they'd love me for holding it in. ”

- Matt Groening

“ A man is never drunk if he can lay on the floor without holding on. ”

- Joe E. Lewis

“ All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath. ”

- Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“ Disillusion is a natural stage that follows the holding of an illusion. ”

- Susan Shaughnessy

“ Do not worry about holding high position; worry rather about playing your proper role. ”

- Confucius

“ Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. ”

- George Orwell
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