Top 1200 Holding Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Life is not a matter of holding good cards

God! Whose hand was I holding?

To see something marvelous with your own eyes-that's wonderful enough. But when two of you see it, two of you together, holding hands, holding each other close, knowing that you'll both have that memory for the rest of your lives, but that each of you will only ever hold only have an incomplete half of it, and that it won't ever really exist as a whole until you're together, talking or thinking about that moment ...that's worth more than one plus one. It's worth four, or eight, or some number so large we can't even imagine it.

Nothing's as good as holding on to safety.

Holding you, I held everything.

When the prisoner is brought down from Death Row he steps from the elevator directly into a "holding" room that adjoins the witness room. There are two cells in this "holding" room, two, in case it's a double execution. They're ordinary cells, just like this one, and the prisoner spends his last night there before his execu­tion in the morning, reading, listening to the radio, playing cards with the guards.

The only person holding you back is you.

In those days, we imagined ourselves as being kept in some kind of holding pen, waiting to be released into our lives. And when the moment came, our lives -- and time itself -- would speed up. How were we to know that our lives had in any case begun, that some advantage had already been gained, some damage already inflicted? Also, that our release would only be into a larger holding pen, whose boundaries would be at first undiscernible.

Hope is a pocket of possibility. I'm holding it in my hand.

Holding a grudge is never positive or appropriate.

If we keep holding on to God, there is nothing to fear.

It's clearly the case that there's not some moment in American history when every evangelical is holding hands with every Catholic who is holding hands with every mainline Methodist, or what have you. Obviously, American Christianity was deeply divided in all kinds of ways at mid-century too. But there was a kind of convergence going on. Even though Reinhold Niebuhr, the great mainline Protestant theologian, didn't think highly of Billy Graham, he and Graham still, clearly, had more in common, both theologically and in their attitudes toward religion in public life.

..holding a book but reading the empty spaces.

Nothing can be delicious when you are holding your breath.

I'm just not very good at holding on to jobs.

I'm not holding on to Mahadev. The audience is.

Even when you are not playing you are holding me back.

Holding auditions in front of an audience is testing.

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Keep holding on, cause you know we'll make it through. We'll make it through. Just stay strong, cause you know I'm here for you. I'm here for you. There's nothing you could say. Nothing you could do. There's no other way when it comes to the truth, but keep holding on, cause you know we'll make it through.

There are people who don`t like women holding power.

If you holding up the wall then you missing the point

I'm definitely feeling whatever's going on pretty hard. It's like playing Barbies. You're holding the Barbies, but all of the action is happening inside of your head. You might be holding them or even speaking out loud, but really, all of the animation is internal. That's sort of how I feel about my writing. And then the really awful thing is that at the end of the day after crying and experiencing things, then you look at what you've written and you're like, "Hmm, there's half a page that's good here." Then you throw out everything else.

And so we stood together like that, at the top of that field for what seemed like ages, not saying anything, just holding each other, while the wind kept blowing and blowing at us, tugging our clothes, and for a moment, it seemed like we were holding onto each other because that was the only way to stop us from being swept away into the night.

I consider it my duty to acknowledge God. To take down the Ten Commandments and to stop holding prayer would be a violation of that duty. I will not take down the Ten Commandments and I will not stop holding prayer.

He tasted deeper, holding himself over me, and suddenly he was everywhere; his knee trapping my leg, his lips grazing warm, rough, sensuous. He splayed his hand at the small of my back, holding me tightly, driving me to sink my fingers deeper into him, clinging to him as if letting go would mean losing part of myself.

I have nothing holding me back in my head at all.

Sometimes holding on was all you could do.

I'm holding a media mutiny.

Holding up my purring cat to the moon. I sighed.

You can't hit someone if they're holding on to you.

Holding on to the weak is called strength.

If you make no excuses, there's nothing holding you back.

Holding on to anything blocks wisdom.

Nothing can drag you down if you're not holding on to it.

Holding on to anger only gives you tense muscles.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.

Curse false-hand-holding boys!

Democracy doesn't just consist of holding elections.

Life is balance of holding on and letting go.

Writing is a discipline: it's almost all about holding back.

We're not out holding fundraisers in the Hamptons or in Beverly Hills.

So, cutting the lashing of the waterproof match keg, after many failures Starbuck contrived to ignite the lamp in the lantern; then stretching it on a waif pole, handed it to Queequeg as the standard-bearer of this forlorn hope. There, then, he sat, holding up that imbecile candle in the heart of that almighty forlornness. There, then, he sat, the sign and symbol of a man without faith, hopelessly holding up hope in the midst of despair.

He inhaled her scent, uncaring of the blood and dirt and grime that permeated her hair and clothing. He was holding her. Finally holding her. “You’re real. You’re real.” She pulled away, looked up at him, the same answering emotion shining in her blue eyes. With a groan, he lowered his mouth to hers. He couldn’t hold back. Nothing in the world would have kept him from kissing her in that moment. He was overcome.

I saw a new world coming rapidly. More scientific, efficient, yes. More cures for the old sicknesses. Very good. But a harsh, cruel, world. And I saw a little girl, her eyes tightly closed, holding to her breast the old kind world, one that she knew in her heart could not remain, and she was holding it and pleading, never to let her go.

The universe is holding congress with itself.

I mean maybe I was holding all the aces, but what was the game?

I wasn't interested in holding onto the evidence of things.

I need a hero, I'm holding out for at hero 'till the end of the night He's gotta be strong and he's gotta be fast And he's gotta be fresh from the fight I need a hero, I'm holding out for a hero 'till the morning light He's gotta be sure and it's gotta be soon And he's gotta be larger than life, larger than life

If you are holding hands with others, you can't hold a gun!

Our favorite holding period is forever.

To be courageous , you have to have an army of people holding you.

Holding back is so close to stealing.

We are so attached to the earth, and yet we are incapable of holding onto it.

It's one thing to make a pronouncement in a moment of inspiration about what you intend to manifest in your life or what kind of person you intend to become. It's quite another thing to make a commitment to holding that vision regardless of what difficulties or obstacles may surface. Holding the vision involves an unwillingness to compromise what you're visualizing for yourself. It means being willing to suffer through criticism and what appears to be an uncooperative universe.

If you ain't holding, you ain't trying.

Life is about holding on and letting go.

I hate holding grudges.

Strength is measured not by holding on, but by letting go.