Holding On Quotes - Page 7

• Something happens to us all when we experience something as a unit that doesn't occur when we're on our couches or holding our little portable DVD players.

  David Ogden Stiers

  Player, Dvds, Experience

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. June 21, 2002.

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• A man has to be Joe McCarthy to be called ruthless . . . all a woman has to do is put you on hold.

  Marlo Thomas

  Inspirational, Men, Complaining

  "Growing Up Laughing: My Story and the Story of Funny". Book by Marlo Thomas, September 28, 2010.

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• For us, holding on to religious rules, and following them, and refraining from what's forbidden, and being diligent with our duties, what do we call that? That's what we call freedom.

  Muqtada al Sadr

  Religious, Duty, Forbidden

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• But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.

  Lord Byron

  Hope, Truth, Pain

  Letter to Thomas Moore, 28 October 1815, in L. A. Marchand (ed.) 'Byron's Letters and Journals' vol. 4 (1975)

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Struggle, Moral Growth, Effort

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.

  George Burns

  Funny, Humor, Smoking

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• It's easy to get wrapped up in sharing everyday life with a partner. It's fun to get lost in love and romance. It's the best. But holding on to yourself while doing that is the most important thing.

  Brittany Murphy

  Fun, Lost Love, Romance

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Real courage is holding on to a still voice in your head that says, 'I must keep going.' It's that voice that says nothing is a failure if it is not final. That voice that says to you, 'Get out of bed. Keep going. I will not quit.'

  Cory Booker

  Graduation, Real, Voice

  "Most of all, be kind, Newark Mayor Cory Booker tells seniors at Class Day" by Susan Gonzalez, news.yale.edu. May 19, 2013.

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• Letting go has never been easy, but holding on can be as difficult. Yet strength is measured not by holding on, but by letting go.

  Lenny Santos

  Moving On, Letting Go, Breakup

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• I think Democrats often hold the unconstrained vision, and Republicans focus more on the Rule of Law.

  John Fund

  Thinking, Law, Focus

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• So when I got to 50 I just thought, Hold on: I'm thin. I've got my hair. I'm well off. I survived, you know

  Bob Geldof

  Hair, Wells, Knows

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• An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue.

  Henry James

  Literature, Tongue, Natural

  1881 Isabel Archer. The Portrait of a Lady, ch.10.

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• Dignity is the reward of holding oneself accountable to conscience.

  Wes Fesler

  Accountability, Rewards, Dignity

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• Faith is not merely you holding on to God- it is God holding on to you

  E. Stanley Jones

  Christian, Christian Inspirational

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• What you ain't never understood is that I ain't got nothing, don't own nothing, ain't never really wanted nothing that wasn't for you. There ain't nothing as precious to me...There ain't nothing worth holding on to, money, dreams, nothing else--

  Lorraine Hansberry

  Dream, Wanted, Understood

  Lorraine Hansberry (2011). “A Raisin in the Sun”, p.93, Vintage

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• So many people limit themselves by holding onto that baggage. They cut themselves off at the knees. And for me, meeting my father, and seeing how he was, and seeing that other side of where I came from, allowed me to kind of ascend spiritually. Now not to get all hippy or anything, but, you cant realise your potential unless you LET yourself realise your own potential.

  Corey Taylor

  Father, Cutting, People

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

  Niki Taylor

  Family, Fashion, Sticks

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• In trying to justify the humanities, as in trying to live a life, what may turn out to matter most is holding one's nerve.

  Stefan Collini

  Humanity, Trying, Nerves

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• To devote yourself to the creation and enjoyment of beauty, then, can be a serious business-not always necessarily a means of escaping reality, but sometimes a means of holding on to the real when everything is flaking away into... rhetoric and plot.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Real, Mean, Escaping

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.120, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Data are pointing to very strong growth in the fourth quarter. The pessimistic viewpoint, which has seen its grip on reality slip to the last knuckle in the past few months, is now holding on by its fingernails.

  Brian Wesbury

  Strong, Past, Reality

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• I think it's sad when people stop dreaming, or start losing hope. Because holding onto the bonkers dream might just turn out to be the most marvellous thing you ever did.

  Miranda Hart

  Dream, Thinking, People

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• You have to keep your sanity as well as know how to distance yourself from it while still holding onto the reins tightly. That is a very difficult thing to do, but I'm learning.

  Diahann Carroll

  Distance, Sanity, Difficult

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• It's the Roman numeral for 10. 5/5/89 is my birthday: 5 plus 5 is 10, and this is my tenth year since I got into music. 'X' is the 24th letter in the alphabet, and I will turn 24 when this album comes out. 'X' is also a metaphor, as in 'ex-girlfriend': it implies you're progressing and moving on in life, not holding on to the past and your old ways.

  Chris Brown

  Girlfriend, Moving, Past

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• I'm so uncoordinated, I can't really do that much, so my specialty is standing in one spot or holding on to something, like an exploding rocket or a jetski.

  Johnny Knoxville

  Rockets, Spots, Exploding

  "Johnny Knoxville's house of pain" by Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2010.

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• Failing to differentiate among employees — and holding on to bottom-tier performers — is actually the cruelest form of management there is.

  Jack Welch

  Management, Failing, Form

  “WrittenJack Welch: Create Candor in the Workplace“ by Lisa Vollmer, www.gsb.stanford.edu. April 1, 2005.

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