Holding On Quotations

Do you know what would hold me together on a battlefield? The sense that I was perpetuating the language in which Keats and the rest of them wrote!

I loved Mal Evans holding one note down on You Won't See Me from Rubber Soul.

We really feel happier when things look bleak. Hope is endurance. Hope is holding on and going on and trusting in the Lord.

Renewable ethanol represents a clear opportunity to grow a significant portion of our own fuel locally and begin to break the hold imported fuels have on us.

To get a hold on boys you must be their friend.

I'm holding onto the hope that there is some reason that I got cancer and there is something - that may not be very clear to me right now - but that I will do.

Robots do not hold on to life. They can't. They have nothing to hold on with - no soul, no instinct. Grass has more will to live than they do.

We have given most of Europe to Hitler. Let us try to hold on to what we have got left.

I'm constantly intimidated by Shakespeare's work. Trying to decipher what he's saying and holding on to that thought - not just as an actor, but as a human being - is a rigour.

The only thing holding us back is ourselves.

If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.

When I watched Ellen come out in '97, my jaw was on the floor. I thought, There are some people who break the doors down, hold them open, and some people who walk right through.

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

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.

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

I'm so uncoordinated, I can't really do that much, so my specialty is standing in one spot or holding on to something, like an exploding rocket or a jetski.

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.

Tom is the most eccentric person I have ever worked with. We get on very well and I am most impressed with how he can hold an audience in the palm of his hand.

A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them.

I've become impossible, holding on to when everything seemed to matter more.

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

I feel like im in this river just getting swept along... And if I hold on to anyone, if I'm holding on for dear life, I'm not getting anywhere. I'm stuck. ...I never wanted to get stuck

You have to keep your sanity as well as know how to distance yourself from it while still holding onto the reins tightly. That is a very difficult thing to do, but I'm learning.

The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence.

Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn't that what people do?

When you're poor, you have nothing to lose and be afraid of. Holding onto the dream and having nothing to lose is what helped me succeed.

What we don't recognize is that holding onto resentment is like holding onto your breath. You'll soon start to suffocate.

Holding on to some of your uniqueness is the trick instead of surrendering it at the Academy of Contemporary We're Gonna Make You a Star.

We are so attached to the earth, and yet we are incapable of holding onto it.

Faith is not merely you holding on to God- it is God holding on to you

We’re too much ourselves. Afraid of letting go of what we are, in case we are nothing, and holding on so tight, we lose everything else.

We're not good at propping up old carcasses. We want to be on top of what's vital at any particular time, and not just hold onto something because it has a name.

Meditation practice is neither holding on nor avoiding; it is a settling back into the moment, opening to what is there.

You just send your love and gratitude to everything that came through the experience and you wish it the best. If you don't wish it the best, then you're only holding on to its failure, you're only holding on to something that needs something from you, whereas if you wish it the best, it's not about you anymore.

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

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

Sometimes holding on was all you could do.

Life is about holding on and letting go.

We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.

No, we don't walk away. But when we're holding on to something precious, we run. We run and run, fast as we can, and we don't stop running until we are out from under the shadow.

Sometimes I think my whole life has been about holding on to you.

Republicans seems to me to be chiefly concerned with holding on to what they have: in society, it's position, or respectability, or what you will; in business, of course, it's profit.

There is only what you want and what happens. There is only grabbing on and holding tight in the darkness.

What you ain't never understood is that I ain't got nothing, don't own nothing, ain't never really wanted nothing that wasn't for you. There ain't nothing as precious to me...There ain't nothing worth holding on to, money, dreams, nothing else--

I love doing scripted things. What little acting ability I have I am holding on with my hangnails.

The labels can't do anything for a band anymore - they're stuck and they have no money and they're just holding onto contracts that have existed from a time where there were resources.

Holding on to things only breaks your heart.

In order to do great things, you must be unafraid to recreate yourself. You can't do that holding on to a glory from yesterday.

Falling in love was easy.anyone could fall. It was holding on that was tricky

Up North you are holding your own. Everyone considers themselves a comedian.

Failing to differentiate among employees — and holding on to bottom-tier performers — is actually the cruelest form of management there is.

But the other notion is, we also believe that those folks closest on the ground that we're holding accountable for the results can decide, and ought to evaluate which programs get results.

Holding on to anger only gives you tense muscles.

Holding on to anything blocks wisdom.

Everyone has got the fear It's holding on Holding on

When he left, you spent all your energy holding on to him. You could be happy if you let go.

Yeah, sometimes life really sucks," she says. "But you know what I'm holding on for?" I raise my eyebrows. She raises hers, too, mimicking me. "The moments that don't suck," she says. "The trick is to notice them when they come around.

Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.

Nothing's as good as holding on to safety.

Nothing can drag you down if you're not holding on to it.

Life is balance of holding on and letting go.

On learning to swim: I'm too big to have some woman hold my stomach and say 'Now kick your feet.'