The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.
Michelangelo

I do not see how the Japanese can hold out against this united front.
Henry L. Stimson

For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
John Donne

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

Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future.
Ulysses S. Grant

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
William Faulkner

Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.
Sophocles

Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.
James M. Barrie

It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.
P. J. O'Rourke

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
Quentin Crisp

We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.
Ansel Adams

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

I do not hold with those who think it is all right to do whatever you want so long as it doesn't hurt anyone. Who's to be the judge of that?
Loretta Young

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.
Thomas Huxley

I think it's a good thing that there are bloggers out there watching very closely and holding people accountable. Everyone in the news should be able to hold up to that kind of scrutiny. I'm for as much transparency in the newsgathering process as possible.
Anderson Cooper

Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
Samuel Johnson

Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back.
Babe Ruth

We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.
Thomas B. Macaulay

The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want to hold on to.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh