Hold Quotes

Human beings seem to hold on more tenaciously to a cultural identity that is learned through suffering than to one that has been acquired through pleasure and delight.

Mrs. Tiggy-winkle’s hand, holding the tea-cup, was very very brown, and very very wrinkly with the soap-suds; and all through her gown and her cap, there were HAIRPINS sticking wrong end out; so that Lucie didn’t like to sit too near her.

If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.

Find a heart that will love you at your worst, and arms that will hold you at your weakest.

The words that we use I think are symbolic of the values that we hold.

When faith lays hold, impossibilities must yield.

He tasted deeper, holding himself over me, and suddenly he was everywhere; his knee trapping my leg, his lips grazing warm, rough, sensuous. He splayed his hand at the small of my back, holding me tightly, driving me to sink my fingers deeper into him, clinging to him as if letting go would mean losing part of myself.

It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals.

We seem to be keeping old fans and are bringing on new fans that are teenagers. I think that is amazing.

Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!