Top 1200 Holding Back Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn't that what people do?

The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you Don't go back to sleep! You must ask for what you really want. Don't go back to sleep! People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch, The door is round and open Don't go back to sleep!

I can count all the lovers I've had on one hand...if I'm holding a calculator.

A lot of times you can lose the MP3s - it's a lot of labor to be finding it again, putting things back up. You gotta back up, back up, back up.

And you won’t leave me?” “No.” Alec said. “No, we won’t ever leave you. You know that.” “Never.” Isabelle took his hand, the one Alec wasn’t holding, and pressed it fiercely. “Lightwoods, all together.” She whispered. Jace's hand was suddenly damp where she was holding it, and he realized she was crying, her tears splashing down crying for him, because she loved him; even after everything that had happened, she still loved him. They both did. He fell asleep like that, with Isabelle on one side of him and Alec on the other, as the sun came up with the dawn.

Holding Frances in my arms is the best drug in the world.

I feel like a carton of eggs holding up an elephant.

No matter where I go, I'm still holding up a mirror.

I am holding on to every shred of femininity that I can with heels and dresses.

Holding The Gun' symbolizes loyalty and an everlasting type of love.

The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.

What is man but a little soul holding up a corpse?

Instead of holding grudges, it's better to learn from the bad experiences.

For, in truth, there is no sure way of holding other than by destroying

Holding on to hope when everything is dark, is the greatest test of faith

I didn't much like it, this grudge-holding against the past.

I've become impossible, holding on to when everything seemed to matter more.

Don't pick on your sister when she's holding a baseball bat.

I'm not a critic, I'm a journalist. I'm doing my job holding the government to account.

I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.

Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding onto.

With fashion, it's all about timing and holding out for the right thing.

Holding on to things only breaks your heart.

Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.

..and me holding this moment that was as fragile as a bird in my hands

Holding out for a hero 'til the end of the night!

The city buildings in the distance are holding up the sky, it seems.

Sandro's holding is face. You can tell from that it's a knee injury.

Politics is the art of acquiring, holding, and wielding power.

No opinion that cannot stand discussion or criticism is worth holding.

No, I was just good at holding ice cream cones.

It's really not as bad as it sounds. I was attacked by a shark once, back when I was alive. Well, not so much a shark as a rather large fish. And not so much attacked as looked at menacingly. But it had murder in its eyes, that fish. I knew, in that instant, if our roles had been reversed and the fish had been holding the fishing pole and I had been the one to be caught, it wouldn't hesitate a moment before eating me. So I cooked it and ate before it had a chance to turn the tables.

Belts are only good for holding up your pants

Twitter's had a little fun with me because I say, 'I'm going to circle back. I'm going to circle back.' Now, I will say, and my very hardworking team can confirm, I'm obsessed with circling back with reporters, and not just saying it, but after the briefing getting back to them.

I touch her cheek to slow the kiss down, holding her mouth on mine so I can feel every place where our lips touch and every place where they pull away. I savor the air we share in the second afterwards and the slip of her nose across mine. I think of something to say, but it is too intimate, so I swallow it. A moment later I decide I don't care. "I wish we were alone," I say as I back out of the cell. She smiles. "I almost always wish that.

Success is generally due to holding on, and failure to letting go.

Holding true to what you believe - even in a big city - is so important.

Hot tea," he said, holding the cups. "It's just wrong.

The cards are no good that your are holding unless you're from another world.

A man is never drunk if he can lay on the floor without holding on.

Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.

Racism been over. It's the old people that keep on holding on to it.

I don't want to be someone in my sixties holding on to a group that I created when I was in my twenties.

When I create art, it's like holding hands with God.

Our average holding period is four years.

I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.

I ain't never loan friends money; I give it to 'em and I don't expect to get it back. Even when he says, "I'll pay you back," I never expect it. If he gives it back, then hey, that's a feather in his cap, but I don't expect to get it back.

Sometimes I think my whole life has been about holding on to you.

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

Ethical man: A Christian holding four aces.

I've got a right to knock down anybody holding a bat.

I'm afraid you will have to fly holding the rock with its heavy chain.

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

Have you ever happened, reader, to feel that subtle sorrow of parting with an unloved abode? The heart does not break, as it does in parting with dear objects. The humid gaze does not wander around holding back a tear, as if it wished to carry away in it a trembling reflection of the abandoned spot; but in the best corner of our hearts we feel pity for the things which we did not bring to life with our breath, which we hardly noticed and are now leaving forever. This already dead iventory will not be resurrected in one's memory.

I want to be great, and that's holding myself to my standards, not anybody else's.

I'm holding up, Lord willing and the creek don't rise.

Holding a book you're reading is kind of old-school.

That was Pele's strength - holding people off with his arm.

If I'm writing a story and you're reading it, or vice versa, you took time out of your day to pick up my book. I think the one thing that will kill that relationship is if you feel me condescending to you in the process. And how does that happen? Well, it happens when I know more than you do, and when I know that I know more than you do, and I'm holding it back from you. So that I can then manipulate you at the end. You know, you think about like in a dating situation how terrible that would be, it's the same thing with a book.

holding tight, denying the fact that eventually we all had to let go.