Quotes of Keeping - somelinesforyou

“ 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

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

- Josh Billings

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

- Confucius

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

- Bible

“ JEALOUS, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another — too often ending in the loss of both. ”

- Tryon Edwards

“ Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods. ”

- C.S. Lewis

“ It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk. ”

- Bertolt Brecht

“ Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. ”

- Judith Viorst

“ What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from". ”

- Marilyn Vos Savant

“ As complicated as joint custody is, it allows the delicious contradiction of having children and maintaining the intimacy of life-before-kids. ”

- Delia Ephron

“ Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand. ”

- James Joyce

“ Opinionated writing is always the most difficult… simply because it involves retaining in the cold morning-after crystal of the printed word the burning flow of molten feeling. ”

- Gavin Lyall

“ They had learned that the act of violence is the act of weakness, and that the spirit's strength lies in holding fast to the truth. ”

- Ursula K. Le Guin

“ Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ Preserving the health by too strict a regimen is a worrisome malady. ”

- Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld

“ Holding occasion by the hand, Not over nice 'twixt weed and flower, Waiving what none can understand, I make mine hour. ”

- John Vance Cheney

“ Laughter holding both his sides. ”

- Thomas Middleton

“ Yes, anally retentive men are my forte! ”

- Geoffrey Rush

“ I don't think nationalism is alone holding the field; it's in contention with a lot of different things. ”

- Peter Singer

“ They seem to be, so far, committed to preserving a portion of the parcel for the benefit of the neighborhood. ”

- Jim Fox

“ Holding on to anything is like holding on to your breath. You will suffocate. The only way to get anything in the physical universe is by letting go of it. Let go & it will be yours forever. ”

- Deepak Chopra

“ An ethical man is a Christian holding four aces. ”

- Mark Twain

“ If... it would be a gain to any man to hang himself, I certainly think that it would be of the very greatest advantage to a tyrant to do so; for he alone is profited neither by retaining his troubles nor by laying them aside. ”

- Xenophon

“ I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters. ”

- Solomon Short

“ Keeping your clothes well pressed will keep you from looking hard pressed. ”

- Coleman Cox

“ The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided. ”

- Casey Stengel

“ Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. ”

- Don Marquis

“ Keeping a little ahead of conditions is one of the secrets of business. ”

- Charles M. Schwab
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