Holding Quotes

I was in the South of France. I saw a Brownie on a school trip. She was holding up a book. It said on the front 'rough guide'. I thought: 'Yeah' she's not a looker.
Jimmy Carr

School, Book, Thought

The rhetoric on the Hill is getting very heated and it's getting quite dangerous. The gun is at the head of the American economy and Congress is holding it and its got a hair trigger. We've got to pay our bills.
Peter Welch

American, Hair, Gun

We're all just bags of bones and muscle and hormones; I'll never understand what makes our minds do the things we do. It's like that statue of the monkey holding a skull. We're trying to use a thing we don't understand to understand ourselves.
Meshell Ndegeocello

Trying, Understand, Makes

I didn't do the marching down the streets, jumping in front of the lines and holding hands... that wasn't me.
Solomon Burke

Down, Hands, Front

Larry wanted us to reposition the tower. We wouldn't, and won't. He's been holding back our fees. We want to get paid. And that's it. It'll get solved and we'll carry on with planning Ground Zero.
Daniel Libeskind

Wanted, Won, Ground

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.
Raoul Vaneigem

Love, Work, Poetry

What is inherently wrong with the word 'politician' if the fellow has devoted his life to holding public office and trying to do something for his people?
Richard J. Daley

Life, Trying, Wrong

Even when you are not playing you are holding me back.
Eugene Ormandy

I love an old-school gentleman. Picking me up for dates, sending flowers, holding the door open, I love it all.
Mollie King

Love, Door, Gentleman

My father was the king of the joke-tellers. I was so impressed as a child watching him, holding people in rapt attention.
Carol Leifer

Father, Him, Child

I know what it's like to be ignored, and I think that is the big problem about the prison system: These people are being thrown away. There is no sense of rehabilitation. In some places, they are trying to do things. But, in most cases, it's a holding cell.
Lee Tergesen

Trying, Problem, Big

Now it's a fully realized production but for the fact that we're holding our scripts in our hand and some of us used them, and some of us didn't and you have to by union rules hold the script. You don't have to use them but you gotta hold them.
Blair Underwood

Fact, Used, Union

It is time for the government of China to stop holding innocent religious figures in captivity merely for peacefully protesting China's occupation of Tibet.
Sam Brownback

Time, Government, Stop

It's rare that you cut out something that is really good. You screen all of it, and when the audience doesn't respond, you cut out whatever is holding the story down.
Keenen Ivory Wayans

Good, Down, Whatever

I can zero in on subtle things because I'm holding the camera.
Patrice Leconte

Camera, Zero, Subtle

Without territory, it does not even have the resources to provide detention facilities for prisoners, even if it were interested in holding captured POWs.
John Yoo

Interested, Resources, Prisoners

In short, it is not that evolutionary naturalists have been less brazen than the scientific creationists in holding science hostage, but rather that they have been infinitely more effective in getting away with it.
Phillip E. Johnson

Science, Short, Away

49 and holding. Holding tight! Fighting that heinous age every step of the way.
Burt Ward

Age, Fighting, Step

There's something honorable about holding out for love and not breaking up for the sake of the baby. I see people get divorced, and there is a part of me that thinks, I wonder how hard they tried?
Judd Apatow

Love, Hard, Baby

The minimum wage is the black teenage unemployment act. It is the guaranteed way of holding the poor, the minorities and the disenfranchised out of the mainstream is if you price their original services too high.
Arthur Laffer

Black, Poor, High

I was holding a reserve inside all along. When you're with someone as powerful as Donald, you have no choice. You can get lost within that power if you're not careful.
Marla Maples

Power, Powerful, Someone

Of everyone else who was running, and there were some very talented people, none of them had anywhere near the experience I had in hiring people, holding them accountable, creating systems for accountability.
John Hickenlooper

Experience, Else, Everyone

There are pitfalls in World Cups, there are players who can win penalties and players who get the slightest touch and go down holding their face or whatever and get someone sent off. There are all these little things and you're hoping that you're not on the wrong end of it.
Michael J. Owen

End, Someone, Win

If we really want to make progress and achieve greater fairness as a society, it is time for elemental change. And we should start by looking at the Constitution, with the goal of holding a new Constitutional Convention.
Larry J. Sabato

Change, Time, Society

I wasn't interested in holding onto the evidence of things.
Jim Hodges

Interested, Evidence, Onto

When I see gay people holding hands or kissing in the streets, I just don't think that's right.
Tim Hardaway

Gay, Hands, Kissing

If my soccer career were over, I would still come here because of the people. And despite the fact I've had to skip some school for National Team purposes, I am looking forward to holding that Carolina degree as soon as I can get my hands on it.
Lorrie Fair

School, Forward, Career

We can practice tolerance while still holding true to cultural values that protect the institution of marriage as a union between only a man and a woman.
Ken Calvert

Marriage, True, Woman

I will make a general statement that we have not had anything like the policy of holding people in high office responsible for their acts that I think we should.
William Odom

High, Office, General

In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on very bad paper. The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
Agnes Smedley

Bad, Small, Paper

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