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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

Hurt, Judge, Long

My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?
Billy Wilder

Pay, Production, Aunt

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

For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!
Edward Abbey

Long, Black, Free

I do my best to hold the director's opinion above my own.
Jeff Bridges

Best, Opinion, Above

Every musician wants to do something which will hold up for a long time, and I guess we did it with 'Stairway to Heaven.'
Jimmy Page

Time, Long, Heaven

There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.
Rose Kennedy

Bad, Nothing, Less

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

Opinion, Purpose, Ourselves

I hold that religion and faith are two different things.
Pat Buckley

Faith, Religion, Different

I don't care what people think about me because I know I am more than all the pain and strife they hold inside.
Ricky Williams

Pain, Care, Inside

In case of a thunderstorm, stand in the middle of the fairway and hold up a one iron. Not even God can hit a one iron.
Lee Trevino

God, Stand, Hit

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

Job, Whether, Test

Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.
Langston Hughes

Life, Dreams, Snow

When you're working with the best of the best, I'm not gonna put that on hold so I can work with people who studied the best of the best.
Shia LaBeouf

Work, Best, Working

I'm a fantasy writer, called a fantasy writer. But there's very little, apart from one or two basic concepts in 'I Shall Wear Midnight,' which are in fact fantasy. You have sticks that fly, but they're practical broomsticks, with a bloody great strap that you can hold on to so you don't fall off. And you try not to use them too often.
Terry Pratchett

Great, Two, Try

Even if I have to stand alone, I will not be afraid to stand alone. I'm going to fight for you. I'm going to fight for what's right. I'm going to fight to hold people accountable.
Barbara Boxer

Alone, Fight, Afraid

To me, a story can be both concrete and abstract, or a concrete story can hold abstractions. And abstractions are things that really can't be said so well with words.
David Lynch

Words, Said, Story

Sometimes in football you have to hold your hand up and say, yeah, they're better than us.
Alex Ferguson

Football, Sometimes, Hand

Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.
Anacharsis

Powerful, Through, Rich

Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.
Evelyn Waugh

Parents, May, After

We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.
Ben Sweetland

Path, Cannot, Light

I get a sense that we've all been educated into one school of thought. I'm not surprised at all to find among the overwhelming majority of scientists, are people who would hold one particular view because that's all they're exposed to.
Thabo Mbeki

School, Thought, Find

Baby, black promoters oppressed me before white promoters ever got hold of me. Don't talk skin to me.
Mahalia Jackson

Black, Before, Talk

I believe a lot of our lives are spent asleep, and what I've been trying to do is hold on to those moments when a little spark cuts through the fog and nudges you.
Rufus Wainwright

Through, Trying, Lives

When a woman gets dressed up to go out at night, she wants to give 50% away, and hold the rest back. If you're an open book, there's no allure.
Alexander McQueen

Woman, Book, Night

There is so much temptation to hold on to my career even more now. To try to micromanage and dictate every little aspect. But that's not how I want to do things anymore. I'm thinking about how can I trust God more. How can I surrender more? How can I bring him more glory? It's a fight. But it's one I'm going to keep fighting.
Jeremy Lin

Trust, God, Fight

I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant. I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
William Tecumseh Sherman

Him, Accept, Create

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.
Publilius Syrus

Fool, Tongue, Pass

It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then.
Richard Armour

All right, every day ain't going to be the best day of your life, don't worry about that. If you stick to it you hold the possibility open that you will have better days.
Wendell Berry

Life, Best, Worry

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