Holding On Quotes - Page 6

• In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on very bad paper. The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.

  Agnes Smedley

  Paper, Littles, Marxist Theory

  Agnes Smedley (2012). “Daughter of Earth”, p.247, Courier Corporation

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• The Olympics are coming... and it's a big problem in American politics, because the problem with holding the Olympics this fall is that we're all going to be focused on the Olympics, and it makes that window of opportunity for Gore to win the election that much smaller.

  Susan Estrich

  Fall, Winning, Opportunity

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• But the other notion is, we also believe that those folks closest on the ground that we're holding accountable for the results can decide, and ought to evaluate which programs get results.

  Margaret Spellings

  Believe, Program, Results

  "The Education Week Interview: Margaret Spellings". Interview with Lynn Olson, www.edweek.org. February 9, 2005.

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• Larry wanted us to reposition the tower. We wouldn't, and won't. He's been holding back our fees. We want to get paid. And that's it. It'll get solved and we'll carry on with planning Ground Zero.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Zero, Towers, Want

  "You've got to have faith" by Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. August 4, 2004.

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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.

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

  Anne Sullivan Macy

  Philosophy, Difficulty, Firm

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• If you’re following God and haven’t lost much of what you’ve been holding on to - follow a little closer.

  Bob Goff

  Littles, Lost, Following God

  FaceBook post by Bob Goff from Mar 11, 2014

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• Disney had such a hold on the mind of America-they were Adolf Hitler. The whole country thought Disney was some sort of god and that animation was some sort of pure thing for children.

  Ralph Bakshi

  Country, Children, America

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• People try to keep their past, like kind of holding on to their past. Every Springsteen song talks about that.

  John Cusack

  Song, Past, People

  Interview With Caffeinated Clint, moviehole.net. April 14, 2003.

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• Eventually I realize that I am holding on to him just as tightly as he holds on to me. And here we are: two small dying things, as the world ends around us like falling autumn leaves.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Love, Fall, Autumn

  Lauren DeStefano (2011). “Wither”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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• Each day brought just another minute of the things they could not leave behind. Jane Barrington sitting on the train coming back to Leningrad from Moscow, holding on to her son, knowing she had failed him, crying for Alexander, wanting another drink, and Harold, in his prison cell, crying for Alexander, and Yuri Stepanov on his stomach in the mud in Finland, crying for Alexander, and Dasha in the truck, on the Ladoga ice, crying for Alexander, and Tatiana on her knees in the Finland marsh, screaming for Alexander, and Anthony, alone with his nightmares, crying for his father.

  Paullina Simons

  Father, Son, Knowing

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• Tell me when it's over " Thalia said. Her eyes were shut tight. The statue was holding on to us so we couldn't fall but still Thalia clutched his arm like it was the most important thing in the world. "Everything's fine " I promised. "Are... are we very high " I looked down. Below us a range of snowy mountains zipped by. I stretched out my foot and kicked snow off one of the peaks. "Nah " I said. "Not that high.

  Rick Riordan

  Fall, Eye, Feet

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• People really feel that, when they go to the gas pump now, that the oil cartel is holding them by the legs and tipping them upside down and shaking money out of their pockets.

  Ed Markey

  Oil, People, Pockets

  "Hardball with Chris Matthews", www.nbcnews.com. May 4, 2005.

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• He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Letting Go, Optimism, Progress

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (1946). “On Being Fit to Live with: Sermons on Post-war Christianity”, New York ; London [Eng.] : Harper & Brothers

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• Schools must stop being holding pens to keep energetic young people off the job market and off the streets. We stretch puberty out a long, long time.

  Toni Morrison

  Jobs, School, Long

  Toni Morrison, Danille Kathleen Taylor-Guthrie (1994). “Conversations with Toni Morrison”, p.258, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The seasons tell us, everything in organic life tells us, that there is no holding on; still, we try to do just that. Sometimes, though, we learn the kind of wisdom that celebrates the open hand.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Hands, Trying, Kind

  Elizabeth Berg (2001). “Never Change”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

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• Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

  Joan Lunden

  Forgiveness, Hurt, Laughter

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• Falling in love was easy.anyone could fall. It was holding on that was tricky

  Liane Moriarty

  Falling In Love, Easy, Tricky

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• Yeah, sometimes life really sucks. But you know what I'm holding on for? The moments that don't suck. The trick is to notice them when they come around.

  Veronica Roth

  Eyebrows, Mimicking, Sometimes

  "Allegiant". Book by Veronica Roth, 2013.

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• How many boys like him were out there in the ether, holding on to their big brothers and sisters who were still alive? How many husbands were floating between life and death, clinging to their wives in this world? And how may millions and millions of people were there in the world like Charlie who wouldn't let go of their loved ones when they're gone?

  Ben Sherwood

  Letting Go, Brother, Husband

  Ben Sherwood (2010). “Charlie St. Cloud: A Novel”, p.191, Bantam

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• I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office.

  Dean Acheson

  Work, Office, Doe

  In Time 22 Dec. 1952

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• The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Challenges, Innocence, Idealism

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• I wouldn't even hold my kids sometimes because I didn't want them to spit up on me when I was dressed for an awards show.

  Lauryn Hill

  Kids, Awards, Spit Up

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them.

  Augustus Hare

  Horse, Public Opinion, Should

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• We really feel happier when things look bleak. Hope is endurance. Hope is holding on and going on and trusting in the Lord.

  Michael Novak

  Endurance, Looks, Lord

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