Quotes with hold

Quotes 221 till 240 of 283.

  • Blaise Pascal Things which have most hold on us, as the concealment of our few possessions, are often a mere nothing. It is a nothing which our imagination magnifies into a mountain.
    Source: Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • George Bernard Shaw This comes of James teaching me to think for myself, and never to hold back out of fear of what other people may think of me. It works beautifully as long as I think the same things as he does.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Will Rogers This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Bob Graham This president has been reluctant to hold anybody accountable. No one was held accountable after September the 11th. Nobody's been held accountable after the clear flaws in intelligence leading up to the war in Iraq.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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  • Simone de Beauvoir To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
    Simone de Beauvoir
    French writer and philosopher (1908 - 1986)
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  • Robert Baden-Powell To get a hold on boys you must be their friend.
    Robert Baden-Powell
    British Army officer, writer, author and founder of the Scout Movement (1857 - 1941)
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  • Alan Watts To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Phillips Brooks To say, ''well done'' to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge.
    Phillips Brooks
    American Minister, Poet (1835 - 1893)
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  • William Blake To see a World in a Grain of Sand
    And a Heaven in a Wild Flower
    Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
    And Eternity in an hour.
    Source: Auguries of Innocence
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • William Blake To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Yoshida Kenko To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is pleasure beyond compare.
    Yoshida Kenko
    Japanese author and monk (1283 - 1350)
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  • Tony Dorsett To succeed… you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
    Tony Dorsett
     
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  • Andrew Young Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fool reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.
    Andrew Young
    Amercan activisit and minister (1932 - )
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  • Persius Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.
    Persius
    Roman poet and satirist (34 - 62)
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  • Bianca Kajlich Too many people get married and lose themselves. You have to fiercely hold on to who you are, and you need to celebrate that in the other person because that's what made you fall in love in the first place.
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  • B. B. King Touring a segregated America - forever being stopped and harassed by white cops hurt you most 'cos you don't realise the damage. You hold it in. You feel empty, like someone reached in and pulled out your guts. You feel hurt and dirty, less than a person.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Arnold Newman Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each must hold it's own; if it doesn't, the thing collapses.
    Arnold Newman
    American photographer (1918 - 2006)
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  • Elbert Hubbard We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Ben Sweetland We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.
    Ben Sweetland
    American psychologist and author
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  • Joseph Joubert We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.
    Joseph Joubert
    French writer (1754 - 1824)
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