A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together.
Norman Cousins

A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.
Harry S. Truman

A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.
Roy Blount, Jr.

A hero holds purposes appropriate to man and is, therefore, a thinker.
Andrew Bernstein

A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.
Walter Lippmann

A pint can't hold a quart - if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.
Margaret Deland

A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.
Mahatma Gandhi

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
Abraham Joshua Heschel

A theater person should know what holds an audience and what does not.
Robert Ludlum

And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose.
James Payn

Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
Anais Nin

Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win.
Doug Collins

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
Oscar Wilde

As I discovered, even the governor of a major state who holds pro-life views can be denied a hearing at his party's convention without the national media protesting it.
Robert Casey

As long as my body holds out, I'll be grooving when I'm 70, and not some sort of horrible spectacle.
Nick Lowe

But cord blood also holds the great potential of producing pleural potential cells that could cure many other diseases such as juvenile diabetes, a disease that I live with every day.
Dan Lipinski

But I still serve pretty big and that's one of my biggest weapons, so if my shoulder holds up and I can count on it, I can win a few matches and then you never know how the other guys are going to react to the fatigue and the length of the matches.
Guy Forget

Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds.
Frank Moore Colby

Christmas is the day that holds all time together.
Alexander Smith

Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.
Nick Clooney