Hold Quotes

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.

Love never offers to anyone wings so easy that he does not hold him back with his other hand.

I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.

I owed Lewis one thing, at least. Once you had suffered the experience of presenting a case at one of his Monday morning conferences, no other public appearance, whether on radio, TV or the lecture platform, could hold any terrors for you.

American agents... are the only persons authorized to hold councils of a political nature.

It was a natural process, because when we go to the ring we are human beings, but once you feel the punches and the competition that's when the beast comes out and takes hold of us.

If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

We Hoosiers hold to some quaint notions. Some might say we 'cling' to them, though not out of fear or ignorance. We believe in paying our bills. We have kept our state in the black throughout the recent unpleasantness, while cutting rather than raising taxes, by practicing an old tribal ritual - we spend less money than we take in.

I like circle time and school drop-off. And I like that I have kids still willing to hold my hand.

The first dog I had was owned by an abusive couple. He was very skittish. He wouldn't let me hold him. It was explained to me that it was because of how he was treated.

I kicked the door open, and I'm gonna hold my leg in there. I'm keeping the door open for all these amazing female singer-songwriters that are coming out.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

We both agreed that Stalin was determined to hold out against the Germans. He told us he'd never let them get to Moscow. But if he was wrong, they'd go back to the Urals and fight. They'd never surrender.

Because people see violence on the movie screen, they're not going to go out and hold up a liquor store and kill somebody. It really doesn't correlate.

The mob is a sort of bear; while your ring is through its nose, it will even dance under your cudgel; but should the ring slip, and you lose your hold, the brute will turn and rend you.

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.

I hold no candle for George Osborne whatsoever. He has no strategic skills, is a hopeless chancellor, has no idea how most people have to live and his policies are failing and hurting millions.

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.

When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.

Stick to the basics, hold on to your family and friends - they will never go out of fashion.

All civil rights and the right to hold office were to be extended to persons of any Christian denomination.

Some women hold up dresses that are so ugly and they always say the same thing: 'This looks much better on.' On what? On fire?

There is no sense in owning the copyright unless you are going to use it. I don't think anyone wants to hold all of this stuff in a vault and not let anybody have it. It's only worth something once it's popular.

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

Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so much attention that a husband and wife, concentrating on their children, fail to notice each other's faults.

For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.

The quality that defines us as Americans is the courage to respond to being hit. The courage to root out and destroy the killers. And, most importantly, the courage to hold on to our values and protect our hard-won freedoms while doing it.

Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family.