Hold Quotes - page 2

There is a power in public opinion in this country - and I thank God for it: for it is the most honest and best of all powers - which will not tolerate an incompetent or unworthy man to hold in his weak or wicked hands the lives and fortunes of his fellow-citizens. (Martin Van Buren)
When somebody tells you you're different, smile and hold your head up high and be proud. View quote
Angelina Jolie
For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love. View quote
John Donne
To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy. View quote
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates. View quote
Gore Vidal
I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way. View quote
Robert Frost
I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme. View quote
Henry James
And it is long since I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind. View quote
Norman Mailer
Books that you may carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. (George Bernard Shaw)
There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards. View quote
Livy
No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges. View quote
Buenaventura Durruti
Any tool is a weapon if you hold it right. View quote
Ani DiFranco
One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake. View quote
Robert Browning
For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchen... than witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe. View quote
Harriet Martineau
Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love. View quote
Leo Buscaglia
For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed? View quote
Bell hooks
We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present. View quote
Marianne Williamson
We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him. (Booker T. Washington)
No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation. View quote
Fran Lebowitz
Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut, that held its ground. View quote
David Icke
I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something. View quote
George Burns
I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter. View quote
D. H. Lawrence