Holding Quotes

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath. (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a love of learning. View quote
Laura Welch Bush
Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down. View quote
Lynn Abbey
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer. View quote
George S. Patton
Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go. View quote
Hermann Hesse
Life has loveliness to sell, All beautiful and splendid things, Blue waves whitened on a cliff, Soaring fire that sways and sings, And children's faces looking up Holding wonder like a cup. View quote
Sara Teasdale
When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers. View quote
Imelda Marcos
Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well. View quote
Jack London
All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. View quote
Havelock Ellis
Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult. View quote
David Ogden Stiers
If I run or breathe too deep, the cheap stitches holding me together will snap, and all the stickiness inside will pour out and burn through the concrete. (Laurie Halse Anderson)
To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture. View quote
Thomas Paine
Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence. View quote
Jiddu Krishnamurti
The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space. View quote
Orson Scott Card
You see what power is – holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them. View quote
Amy Tan
Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself. View quote
Leo Buscaglia
Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement. View quote
Florence Scovel Shinn
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. View quote
George Orwell
A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, 'Was she not chaste Was she not fair Was she not fruitful' holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. 'Yet,' added he, 'none of you can tell where it pinches me.' View quote
Plutarch
No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi. (Ben Elton)
You never lose by loving, you lose by holding back. View quote
Barbara De Angelis
But it is a well-known maxim of war that whoever tries to hold on to everything at once, finishes up by holding nothing at all. View quote
Erich von Manstein
The backwardness of our religious and social developments is undoubtedly holding back the development of the intellectual and political levels. View quote
Carroll Quigley
Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history. View quote
Pierre de Coubertin