Holding Quotes - page 29

It's a good likeness of The Dutchman. It's perfect the way they have him holding a bat in his big hands. He was good with the bat but he was a terror with that glove, too. And my, how he could run the bases. Come to think of it, he was as good a ball player as I ever saw. Maybe the best. John McGraw always said Wagner was the greatest and I'm inclined to agree with him. He was certainly the best I ever played against. Wagner was a huge man with huge hands. He could cover ground and he could throw. Amazing thing about him was his arm. It was only as good as the runner. If you were an average runner, he'd just beat you with his throw. And if you were fast, he'd just beat you again. (Casey Stengel)
Shopping in Thailand is super cheap and generally high quality. Bangkok is also safe. If you see anybody wearing camouflage holding a machete, don't be scared. They sell coconuts. View quote
Bobby Lee
As sheep come issuing forth from out the fold By ones and twos and threes, and the others stand Timidly, holding down their eyes and nostrils, And what the foremost does the others do, Huddling themselves against her, if she stop, Simple and quiet and the wherefore know not. View quote
Dante Alighieri
Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and it flies away. View quote
Tommy Lasorda
What's going to make me happy is going on the court and holding up trophies, singles and doubles. View quote
Serena Williams
I'm free from holding personal anger because I can express what I want through my music. View quote
Yoko Ono
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. View quote
John Hay
The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence. View quote
Bruce Springsteen
And be desired, she said while holding me in her arms: because happy are the desired, each and all, she said with eyes closed, in a desperate embrace. And our bodies cuddled up to each other. Happy are those who want to love, she said, today happy are the desired ones. I want you, she said, want your movements, because they all are good for me, want your caresses, because they all are good for me. Give you my untouched young body, because I'm yearning now for your embrace. I give you my vulnerable young body, because I am yearning --- even for pain. Desired you are, and I desire your desire, and do with me whatever you want to do, she said, for happy are the desired ones, each and all, and what I want to be is: desired-for-ever. View quote
András Petöcz
He looks with impartial eye upon the endless variety of systems, maintained with equal confidence and self-sufficiency, by men of equal ability and honesty. He is weary of wandering over the world, and of finding every petty race wedded to its own opinions; claiming the monopoly of Truth; holding all others to be in error, and raising disputes whose violence, acerbity and virulence are in inverse ratio to the importance of the disputed matter. View quote
Richard Francis Burton
Vladimir Putin is a thug and a killer who in the grand tradition of Russian autocracy has no intention ever of holding free elections. (Victor Davis Hanson)
I spent a lot of my life holding back my cries, and I want to change that because it's not good for me. View quote
Shania Twain
She stood at the window, her arms spread wide, holding on to each side of the frame, it was as if she held a piece of the city. View quote
Ayn Rand
I still enjoy the tactile sensation of holding a book. But when I need to read fast for work, I use the Kindle App on my iPad. View quote
Jonathan Tropper
Graffiti ultimately wins out over proper art because it becomes part of your city, it' s a tool; "I'll meet you in that pub, you know, the one opposite that wall with a picture of a monkey holding a chainsaw". I mean, how much more useful can a painting be than that? View quote
Banksy
In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view; the vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical. View quote
Plotinus
I stood there for a while, holding Nakata tight in my arms, feeling like I wanted to die or disappear. Just over the horizon the violence of war went on, with countless people dying. I no longer had any idea what was right and what was wrong. Was I really seeing the real world? Was the sound of birds I was hearing? I found myself alone in the woods, totally confused, blood flowing from freely from my womb. I was angry, afraid, embarrassed-all of these rolled into one. I cried quietly, without making a sound. View quote
Haruki Murakami
The most important thing to remember is that we must live in the present, and if in the present moment we are still holding on to old wounds and betrayals, it is in this moment that forgiveness is called for. View quote
Noah Levine
For, in truth, there is no sure way of holding other than by destroying. View quote
Niccolò Machiavelli
For that reason, let a prince have the credit of conquering and holding his state, the means will always be considered honest, and he will be praised by everybody because the vulgar are always taken by what a thing seems to be and by what comes of it; and in the world there are only the vulgar, for the few find a place there only when the many have no ground to rest on. View quote
Niccolò Machiavelli
Perhaps if we had realized they are birds, with all the wonderful characteristics of birds, we would have paid closer attention to the ways in which chickens can enchant us. Take dust-bathing, for example. We call it a bath because the chicken finds a small indentation of dry earth and then proceeds to immerse herself in it as into a warm bath. The earth cleans her feathers. The first time I saw a chicken taking a dust bath, stretching out one iridescent wing and holding it up to the sunshine, then settling into the warmth of the afternoon only to fly effortlessly to a tree to roost in the evening, I was astonished. (Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson)
Anyway I be, holding this mic And I'm restless Lyrical bars, it comes quick like my first sex I'm raw, no latex I aint a slave, I'm a grown man Fvck the chains and the necklace Gat bad chicks everywhere, Casablanca Noah flow, leave you in a state like Bayelsa I poo in your mouth, you can talk that shyt Guns like a cinema, it got clips. View quote
Slim Burna
If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time. View quote
Janis Joplin
We must present democracy as a force holding within itself the seeds of unlimited progress by the human race. By our actions we should make it clear that such a democracy is a means to a better way of life, together with a better understanding among nations. View quote
George C. Marshall
The charges against most of the people detained in the prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan being nonexistent - the Red Cross reports that 70 to 90 percent of those being held seem to have committed no crime other than simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time, caught up in some sweep of "suspects" - the principal justification for holding them is "interrogation." Interrogation about what? About anything. View quote
Susan Sontag