Holding On Quotes - Page 4

• Some artists imagine they've got a hold on this apparatus, which in fact has got a hold of them. As a result, they end up supporting a cultural prison that is out of their control

  Robert Smithson

  Artist, Facts, Prison

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.154, Univ of California Press

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• Charles had once remarked that holding onto a resentment was like eating rat poison and waiting for the rat to die.

  Anne Lamott

  Drinking, Waiting, Poison

  Anne Lamott (2011). “Crooked Little Heart: A Novel”, p.236, Anchor

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• If you wish to be brothers, let the arms fall from your hands. One cannot love while holding offensive arms.

  Pope Pius VI

  Brother, Fall, Hands

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• There are a lot of Christians who are halfway fellows. They stand in the door, holding on to the Church with one hand while they play with the toys of the world with the other. They are in the doorway and we can't bring sinners in. And, until we get some of God's people right, we cannot hope to get sinners regenerated. Now they always accuse me of carrying around a sledge hammer with which to pound the church members. Yes sir, I do pound them, every time I come down, I knock one of the halfway fellows out of the doorway, and every time I knock one out I get a sinner in.

  Mordecai Ham

  Christian, Doors, Hands

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• Claudia's the sort of girl who goes through life holding onto the sides.

  Alice Thomas Ellis

  Girl, Women, Sides

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• Our favorite holding period is forever.

  Warren Buffett

  Funny Inspirational, Business, War

  Lawrence A. Cunningham, Warren E. Buffett (2013). “The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America (Third Edition)”, p.63, Carolina Academic Press

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• But she has gathered that Americans, in spite of their public declarations of affection, in spite of their miniskirts and bikinis, in spite of their hand-holding on the street and lying on top of each other on the Cambridge Common, prefer their privacy.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Lying, Hands, Bikinis

  Jhumpa Lahiri (2004). “The Namesake: A Novel”, p.3, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I was obliged to stand there, holding the leash of this creature for their welcoming publicity shots, implying that this was some kind of image the decided to have of me.

  Barbara Steele

  Publicity, Welcome, Kind

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• I can zero in on subtle things because I'm holding the camera.

  Patrice Leconte

  Zero, Cameras, Subtle

  "Arms Wide Open: Patrice Leconte Talks About 'Intimate Strangers'". Interview with Ryan Mottesheard, www.indiewire.com. July 30, 2004.

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• All around as a person, on right decisions, on holding your money, on doing your trade, a good education is a must. I don't think I would've done as good without an education.

  Bobby Vinton

  Education, Thinking, Decision

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• She stood at the window, her arms spread wide, holding on to each side of the frame, it was as if she held a piece of the city.

  Ayn Rand

  Cities, Pieces, Arms

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.232, Penguin

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• Change happens when the pain of holding on becomes greater than the fear of letting go.

  Spencer Johnson

  Life, Change, Letting Go

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• But you know who you are when you're on your own out there in all that emptiness. There's no past, no holding on to the scraps that are all you've got left. Everything is that minute, or maybe tomorrow, not yesterday.

  Alexandra Ripley

  Past, Maybe Tomorrow, Yesterday

  Alexandra Ripley (1992). “Scarlett: the sequel to Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the wind”, Macmillan Reference USA

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• We’re too much ourselves. Afraid of letting go of what we are, in case we are nothing, and holding on so tight, we lose everything else.

  Clive Barker

  Letting Go, Too Much, Cases

  FaceBook post by Clive Barker from Oct 21, 2012

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• I loved Mal Evans holding one note down on You Won't See Me from Rubber Soul.

  Benmont Tench

  Soul, Rubber, Notes

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• There is a loneliness that can be rocked. Arms crossed, knees drawn up, holding, holding on, this motion, unlike a ship's, smooths and contains the rocker. It's an inside kind--wrapped tight like skin. Then there is the loneliness that roams. No rocking can hold it down. It is alive. On its own. A dry and spreading thing that makes the sound of one's own feet going seem to come from a far-off place.

  Toni Morrison

  Loneliness, Feet, Skins

  FaceBook post by Toni Morrison from Nov 21, 2016

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• I stand on the end platform of the tram and am completely unsure of my footing in this world, in this town, in my family. Not even casually could I indicate any claims that I might rightly advance in any direction. I have not even any defense to offer for standing on this platform, holding on to this strap, letting myself be carried along by this tram, nor for the people who give way to the tram or walk quietly along or stand gazing into shop windows. Nobody asks me to put up a defense, indeed, but that is irrelevant.

  Franz Kafka

  People, Giving, Defense

  Franz Kafka (2009). “The Metamorphosis: And Other Stories”, p.35, Schocken

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• We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Broken Heart, Letting Go, Practice

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2013). “The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke”, p.107, Vintage

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• If the white man wants to hold on to it, let him do so; but the Negro, so far as he is able, should develop and carry out a program of his own.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Men, White Man, Want

  Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.11, Book Tree

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• I've learned to try to sustain myself by holding on to the integrity of who I am. I'm not talking big diva. I'm quiet. I'm shy. And I became stronger when I stopped trying to be the person they wanted me to be.

  Crystal Waters

  Integrity, Who I Am, Talking

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• For most of my life, I believed that my father had broken many of my bones. They were emotional and psychological bones; things no one could see, things that caused me to limp through life clutching for and holding on to people and situations that often rendered me immobile.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Father, Emotional, People

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• If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron.

  Lee Trevino

  Sports, Golf, Iron

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• The people of our city are holding on by a thread. Time has run out. Can we survive another night? And who can we depend on? Only God knows.

  Ray Nagin

  Running, Night, Cities

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• One of the commonest mistakes and one of the costliest is thinking that success is due to some genius, some magic - something or other which we do not possess. Success is generally due to holding on, and failure to letting go. You decide to learn a language, study music, take a course of reading, train yourself physically. Will it be success or failure? It depends upon how much pluck and perseverance that word decide contains. The decision that nothing can overrule, the grip that nothing can detach will bring success.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Letting Go, Perseverance, Mistake

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”

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• Much of the Christian religion has largely become “holding on” instead of letting go. But God, it seems to me, does the holding on (to us!), and we must learn the letting go (of everything else).

  Richard Rohr

  Christian, Letting Go, Doe

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