Holding Quotes

We have to give value to authority. We have to give value to office, being in office, holding office.
James Hillman

Give, Value, Office

Yes, I have four children. Four children with whom I spend a good part of every day: bathing them, combing their hair, sitting with them while they do their homework, holding them while they weep their tragic tears. But I'm not in love with any of them. I am in love with my husband.
Ayelet Waldman

Love, Good, Husband

Politically, Obama's amazing streak of self-destructing opponents who have lain beneath his feet during his unlikely political career appears to be holding.
Eric Alterman

Amazing, Political, Career

When I'm in love with a woman, seeing her in something cozy makes me not want to let go of her when I'm holding her.
Kellan Lutz

Love, Woman, Her

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

Freedom, Religious, Rules

Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.
Orson Scott Card

Truth, Space, Metaphors

Basically, after an ABC sitcom I did, I ended up with a holding deal with 20th Century Fox. Absolutely cool. It pays you to be unemployed. And the bigger the entity that gives you the deal, the better.
Nathan Fillion

Cool, After, Deal

I haven't always been warmly welcomed for holding my conservative positions in Hollywood. Then again, I've never been very good at being politically correct either, on or off screen. So why start now?
Chuck Norris

Good, Why, Start

I opened the door for a lot of people, and they just ran through and left me holding the knob.
Bo Diddley

Through, Door, Left

Working with Chaplin was very amusing and strange. His films are so funny, but working with him, I found him to be a very serious man. Whereas the films of Hitchcock are macabre, he could be a very funny man to work with, always telling jokes and holding court. Of course, when I worked with Charlie he was getting older.
Tippi Hedren

Funny, Work, Him

I look at the careers of people I'm standing on the shoulders of. People like Lena Horne, Ella Fitzgerald, Sammy Davis Jr., and Sarah Vaughan. These are icons I wanted to emulate, and I feel like they've been holding me up for quite a long time.
Dionne Warwick

Time, Long, Wanted

Rural communities in Africa, South Asia and Latin America are where the majority of hungry people are and the inequality that exists between women and men in these communities is holding back progress. These women have a very tough time, so much is expected of them.
Dionne Warwick

Time, Women, Men

Rural communities in Africa, South Asia and Latin America are where the majority of hungry people are and the inequality that exists between women and men in these communities is holding back progress.
Dionne Warwick

Women, Men, America

My Uncle, of course, would have been pleased to see someone with brown skin holding the office of president.
Alveda King

Someone, President, Office

My mom didn't want me to go to college. She didn't want me to read - when I read, I may as well have been holding a pineapple.
Lynda Barry

Mom, May, College

I get the greatest feeling when I'm singing. It's other-worldly. Your feet are anchored into the Earth and into this energy force that comes up through your feet and goes up the top of your head and maybe you're holding hands with the angels or the stars, I have no idea.
Cyndi Lauper

Greatest, Feeling, Through

My feet are definitely more grounded than before. And I know that I'm not holding onto a dream. I'm holding onto my life.
Celine Dion

Life, Before, Dream

People aren't always themselves. They're always holding back something.
Garth Brooks

Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is 'The Book of British Birds,' and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology.
Terry Eagleton

Knowledge, Someone, Book

Your problem is you're... too busy holding onto your unworthiness.
Ram Dass

Busy, Problem, Onto

I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.
Xenocrates

Often, Tongue, Speaking

The only thing holding us back is ourselves.
Brad Henry

Are not the gays who seek the right to marry, to formalise their commitment to each other, holding up a mirror to heterosexuals who are marrying less frequently and divorcing more often?
Malcolm Turnbull

Often, Less, Mirror

This idea of holding the Defense Department hostage to the tax debate makes me sick to my stomach. Knock it off.
Lindsey Graham

Sick, Off, Makes

I think one has to say it's not just simply a matter of capturing people and holding them accountable, but removing the sanctuaries, removing the support systems, ending states who sponsor terrorism. And that's why it has to be a broad and sustained campaign.
Paul Wolfowitz

Why, Matter, Support

You do Batman right, and he's going to be popular. He's a great character. I was once asked by somebody if writing 'Batman' was like holding a Ming vase or something. And I said, 'No, it's like holding a big-ass diamond that you can't break. You can throw him against the ceiling, against the floor, anywhere, and you just can't break Batman.'
Frank Miller

Great, Character, Writing

You can't invest in natural gas on a daily basis. It's too volatile. But if you think of natural gas as a long-term holding, then you push your profit horizon out. A long-term time horizon would be at least two years.
T. Boone Pickens

Time, Daily, Two

I think it's better when you're natural, when you just do whatever you want, instead of doing classes where I see all these other people holding back because they've been trained with certain skills or techniques. I'm like, whatever.
Gisele Bundchen

Whatever, Natural, Skills

You all want to know what is my dream? Very simple. To walk along the beach, holding the hand of my lover.
Michelle Bachelet

Simple, Dream, Walk

Saddam's ouster will not necessarily lead to the same result, since Iraq lacks democratic traditions. Democracy doesn't just consist of holding elections.
Brent Scowcroft

Democracy, Same, Since

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