Hold Quotes

What comes with a job as a staff member of the BBC is a certain self-censoring that you get utterly used to. You don't say everything you think. You hold back on some things.

In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge.

Photosynthetic organisms in the sea yield most of the oxygen in the atmosphere, take up and store vast amounts of carbon dioxide, shape planetary chemistry, and hold the planet steady.

If the general opinion is pessimistic, fantasy is going to hold its own.

Africans, we hold on to our youths and whip them into shape.

The first thing I do is lay out that melody and figure out how it has to hold here and then finish to land here, because you know in advance you're going to want the melody to catch four things in the action.

Self-depreciation is a disease. Once it gets a hold on us - good-bye!

The anchors now made are contrived so as to sink into the ground as soon as they reach it, and to hold a great strain before they can be loosened or dislodged from their station.

I'm going through an evolution. I'm completely cleaning out my closet. I'm purging, because I saw that show 'Hoarders.' I had a sweatshirt from sixth grade, and I'm going, 'Why do I hold on to this?'

I have to wear two sports bras when I do my cardio. It takes a lot to hold these puppies up!

If we are now holding late-night talk-show hosts to the same moral accountability as we hold politicians or clergymen, I'm out. I'm gone.

For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.

I still hold on to the idea that a record can really change the way I feel.

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

My belt holds my pants up, but the belt loops hold my belt up. I don't really know what's happening down there. Who is the real hero?

The liquidation of colonialism is a trend of the times which no force can hold back.

You can't let your past hold your future hostage.

You can't hold the record forever, and I know that. I'm not stupid.

You don't have to hold onto the pain to hold onto the memory.

That's where it begins and ends for me and these songs were the ones that touched me the deepest. It was like I was laying hold of some part of me that I didn't even know was there until I let it out.

The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.

Tom is the most eccentric person I have ever worked with. We get on very well and I am most impressed with how he can hold an audience in the palm of his hand.

To lead a country, you must periodically hold a national consultation in which people representing different programmes can make a bid for power.

The Rolling Stones set the bar to where I look to as a band. But I don't envision myself touring in the way they do. My knees won't hold out.

I'll see you at the theater tonight. I'll hold your seat til you get there. After that you're on your own.

I am absolutely intrigued by life, and I really want to hold onto it.

Men, all men, were always trying to get hold of me, you know.

There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.

I like to write with people I have a relationship with; otherwise it's kind of scary, and you hold back because you don't want to pour your guts out to someone you never met.

He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue.

I believe managing is like holding a dove in your hand. If you hold it too tightly you kill it, but if you hold it too loosely, you lose it.

No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.

Attend me, hold me in your muscular flowering arms, protect me from throwing any part of myself away.

Can postmodernism hold the perpetrators of genocide accountable?

We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties.

The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.

I'm not intimidated by other actors at all - or directors. I don't care who they are. But I am intimidated by writers. I hold them in the highest esteem.

Hold on to that. You have an autograph. I'm going to be famous some day.

No person who denies the existence of a supreme being shall hold any office under this Constitution.

The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.

There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.

Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

In their poverty, the mentally handicapped reveal God to us and hold us close to the gospel.

I have never been a fan of bond funds. Unlike a direct investment in an individual bond that you can hold to maturity and be assured you will get your principal back (assuming no default), a fund has no finite maturity date and most funds are actively traded.

I know that I'm a decent actor, but it's another thing to be in a scene with Jon Hamm and hold your own.

I want people around me who call me out and hold me accountable.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

I know my boyfriend loves to have something to hold onto. There's a lot of men out there who do.

If Muslims curse the Christians, then the Christians will curse the Muslims. And people will curse Allah, and Allah will hold us responsible for that.

I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.

It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.

Maybe I'm ego-tripping, but I don't find myself a particularly horrible person, so I don't think I need to hold back anything I think or feel.

Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with.

Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back.

I am going to hold serve the majority of the time. It is nice to have a little time to return serve.

Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.

A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.

I like that I have kids still willing to hold my hand.

I hold this as a rule of life: too much of anything is bad.

The classical guitar has a dynamic to it unlike a regular acoustic guitar or an electric guitar. You know, there's times when you should play and there's times when you gotta hold back. It's an extremely dynamic instrument.

You know, there's times when you should play and there's times when you gotta hold back.

People who ask us when we will hold talks with Pakistan are perhaps not aware that over the last 55 years, every initiative for a dialogue with Pakistan has invariably come from India.

To hold a pen is to be at war.

I believe a lot of our lives are spent asleep, and what I've been trying to do is hold on to those moments when a little spark cuts through the fog and nudges you.

We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.

I probably hold more town halls than any member of Congress.

My desk is an antique with bookshelves built into the side. I've turned the drawer over to hold a keyboard. We live in a 100-year-old house, and I work in an apartment above the carriage house.

You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.