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

Boredom, Laziness, Ourselves

Sureness is something like a neck brace, which we clamp around our lives, hoping to somehow protect ourselves from the frightening, constant whiplash of change. Sadly, the brace doesn't always hold.
Elizabeth Gilbert

Change, Around, Lives

Now, if you are like me - if you are like practically anybody in America - then you probably hold some negative opinions about the French, based upon movies, rumors, recent headlines, unfortunate run-ins with Parisian waiters, or... you know... all that unpleasantness surrounding the Vichy regime.
Elizabeth Gilbert

Movies, America, Negative

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

May, Accusation, Novel

I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
Henry James

Love, Himself, Writer

Is Europe going to be breaking? I don't think so. I think the euro will stay. I think at the end of the day Europeans will find the solutions in order to hold Europe together.
Carlos Ghosn

End, Together, Find

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.
Dean Koontz

Violence, Movie, Somebody

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

Time, Power, History

The upside to anger? Getting it out of your system. You got to express your anger. Then you have room for more positive things. If I hold something in a long time, and then I speak it, it's amazing how the light shines so much brighter.
Reba McEntire

Time, Positive, Anger

What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.
Robert Browning

Age, Youth, Year

If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point.
Ezra Pound

Truth, Before, Point

As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.
Marian Anderson

Long, Person, Him

Each Wal-Mart store should reflect the values of its customers and support the vision they hold for their community.
Sam Walton

Vision, Support, Values

I used to tremble from nerves so badly that the only way I could hold my head steady was to lower my chin practically to my chest and look up at Bogie. That was the beginning of The Look.
Lauren Bacall

Used, Beginning, Head

I preferred not to be laden down with a big instrument. If you're behind a guitar, you get used to being behind a guitar, and you don't really perform because you can't. I wanted to be able to just hold on to the mike and sing.
Stevie Nicks

Down, Guitar, Big

I've never really been anywhere, and now I get to go everywhere. I just have to make sure there's enough memory on my computer to hold all my pictures.
Carrie Underwood

Enough, Sure, Memory

I don't come to tournaments to make friends, to go to parties, to hold conversations. I come to be the best, and I'm not mean and cruel and dirty.
Venus Williams

Best, Mean, Friends

The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.
Bella Abzug

Job, Whether, Test

I like flesh. I do! Something to hold.
Antonio Banderas

Most adults, unlike most children, understand the difference between a book that will hold them spellbound for a rainy Sunday afternoon and a book that will put them in touch with a part of themselves they didn't even know existed.
Mark Haddon

Sunday, Children, Book

Now that I know what I want, I don't have to hold on to it quite so much.
Lucian Freud

The Armenian Genocide is such a controversial and very sensitive issue because the Turkish and Armenian people disagree about the facts of what actually happened. I know how strongly Armenians feel about the Genocide, and how it's never been recognised. At the same time, I do not hold today's generation of people accountable.
Khloe Kardashian

Time, Today, Same

I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind.
Norman Mailer

Mind, Impossible, Become

My job has always been to hold a mirror up to nature.
Tom Hanks

Nature, Job, Mirror

I don't kiss on the first date. My friends always make fun of me for that! But I will hold hands.
Lauren Conrad

Fun, Friends, Kiss

You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave.
Billie Holiday

Life, Love, Before

Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered.
Archibald MacLeish

Silence, Moment, Once

To get a hold on boys you must be their friend.
Robert Baden-Powell

The future of Conservatism lies in our beliefs and values, not by throwing them away. We need to shed associations that bind us to past failures, but hold faith with those things that make us Conservatives.
Iain Duncan Smith

Faith, Future, Past

Because sorry to say, women run the house. They run the family. They hold things up. I mean, it's like you don't ever see your mom get sick because she handles everything. And it's kind of amazing I think to show people just how strong women are.
Sophia Bush

Family, Women, Amazing

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