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

If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.
Toni Morrison

I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature.
Gottfried Leibniz

It's like being a Knight of the Garter. It's an honor, but it doesn't hold up anything.
Fulton J. Sheen

Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.
Ovid

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

If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard.
Jesse Owens

There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.
Miguel de Cervantes

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

Any tool is a weapon if you hold it right.
Ani DiFranco

I believe managing is like holding a dove in your hand. If you hold it too tightly you kill it, but if you hold it too loosely, you lose it.
Tommy Lasorda

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
Vernon Howard

You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader.
Anthony J. D'Angelo

I even went so far as to become a Southern Baptist for a while, until I realized that they didn't hold 'em under long enough.
Kinky Friedman

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

There is a power in public opinion in this country - and I thank God for it: for it is the most honest and best of all powers - which will not tolerate an incompetent or unworthy man to hold in his weak or wicked hands the lives and fortunes of his fellow-citizens.
Martin Van Buren

The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children.
Marian Wright Edelman

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

I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear.
Billy Sunday