| "Some think it's holding on that makes one strong sometimes it's letting go." »Sylvia Robinson |
| "I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge." »Edward Chilton |
| "You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them" »Amy Tan |
| "If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive." »Dorothee Solle |
| "The last time I saw him he was walking down Lover's Lane holding his own hand." »Fred Allen |
| "Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back." »Publilius Syrus |
| "Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well." »Josh Billings |
| "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 |
| "One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from force." »David Borenstein |
| "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." »George Bernard Shaw |
| "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." »John Kenneth Galbraith |
| "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." »John Hay |
| "Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them." »George Orwell |
| "Do we, holding that gods exist, deceive ourselves with unsubstantiated dreams, and lies, while random careless chance and change alone rule the world" »Euripides |
| "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." »Joan Lunden |
| "Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society." »Daniel Webster |
| "Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society." »Benjamin Franklin |
| "Hold tenderly that which you cherish, for it is precious and a tight grip may crush it. Do not let the fear of dropping it cause you to hold it too tightly the chances are, it's holding you too." »Bob Alberti |
| "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." »Florence Shinn |
| "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." »Sara Teasdale |
| "You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back." »Barbara DeAngelis |
| "A dream can be nurtured over years and years and then flourish rapidly. . . . Be patient. It will happen for you. Sooner or later, life will get weary of beating on you and holding the door shut on you, and then it will let you in and throw you a real party" »Les Brown |
| "The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government they have only a talent for getting and holding office." »H.L. Mencken |
| "I think a good scene in a movie would be where one scientist tells another scientist, 'You know what will save the world You're holding it in your hand.' And the other scientist looks, and in his hand are peanuts. Then when he looks up, the first scientist is being taken away to the insane asylum." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are...Men do not really live for honors or for pay their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself." »R. J. Baughan |
| "The dancing pair that simply sought renown,By holding out to tire each other downThe swain mistrustless of his smutted face,While secret laughter titter'd round the placeThe bashful virgin's side-long looks of love,The matrons glance that would those looks reproveThese were thy charms, sweet village sports like these,With sweet succession, taught e'en toil to pleaseThese were thy bowers their cheerful influence shed,These were thy charms -- but all these charms are fled." »Oliver Goldsmith |
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