Holding Quotes - page 2

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid. (Franz Kafka)
Meat consumption is just as dangerous to public health as tobacco use... It's time we looked into holding the meat producers and fast-food outlets legally accountable. View quote
Neal Barnard
What I wanted to do was to get that sense of being in touch with this lost world while holding onto what draws readers and audiences there in the first place. View quote
Stephen Greenblatt
One who hates is a man holding a magnifying-glass, and when he hates someone, he knows precisely that person's surface, from the soles of his feet all the way up to each hair on the hated head. View quote
Hermann Broch
There is love in holding and there is love in letting go. View quote
Elizabeth Berg
Holding a tear back makes them drain upward, higher and higher, until one day your head just explodes and you're left with a stub of a neck and nothing more. View quote
Alice Hoffman
All human thought, all science, all religion, is the holding of a candle to the night of the universe. View quote
Clark Ashton Smith
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. View quote
Joan Lunden
All around as a person, on right decisions, on holding your money, on doing your trade, a good education is a must. I don't think I would've done as good without an education. View quote
Bobby Vinton
When he was young, I told Dale Jr. that hunting and racing are a lot alike. Holding that steering wheel and holding that rifle both mean you better be responsible. View quote
Dale Earnhardt
I'm not sure I always feel like I'm in the seat. Sometimes I'm only holding on by one hand and flying out behind the roller coaster. I don't know anybody who doesn't feel that way. (David Morse)
I didn't do the marching down the streets, jumping in front of the lines and holding hands... that wasn't me. View quote
Solomon Burke
Suetonius, in holding up a mirror to those Caesars of diverting legend, reflects not only them but ourselves: half-tamed creatures, whose great moral task is to hold in balance the angel and the monster within – for we are both, and to ignore this duality is to invite disaster. View quote
Suetonius
A body of men, holding themselves accountable to nobody, ought not to be trusted by any body. View quote
Thomas Paine
But I'm stubborn as those garbage bags that time cannot decay, I'm junk but I'm still holding up this little wild bouquet: Democracy is coming to the U.S.A. View quote
Leonard Cohen
Flames from the lips may be produced by holding in the mouth a sponge saturated with the purest gasoline. View quote
Harry Houdini
I never trust people with no appetite. It's like they're always holding something back on you. View quote
Haruki Murakami
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
Your mind is for having ideas, not for holding them. View quote
David Allen (author)
As a boy holding to a post or a pillar whirls about it with headlong speed without any fear or falling, so perform your worldly duties, fixing your hold firmly upon God, and you will be free from danger. View quote
Ramakrishna
I do not want to discuss evolution in such depth, however, only touch on it from my own perspective: from the moment when I stood on the Serengeti plains holding the fossilized bones of ancient creatures in my hands to the moment when, staring into the eyes of a chimpanzee, I saw a thinking, reasoning personality looking back. You may not believe in evolution, and that is all right. How we humans came to be the way we are is far less important than how we should act now to get out of the mess we have made for ourselves. (Jane Goodall)
Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
My mother has always been the social glue holding the family together. View quote
Kim Kardashian
The lovers, appearing happy, walk, holding hands. Though it appears everything is perfect, only they know the truth. View quote
Ayumi Hamasaki
Everyone has got the fear It's holding on Holding on. View quote
Thom Yorke