Quotes with holding

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  • Joan Didion I mean maybe I was holding all the aces, but what was the game?
    Play it as it Lays (1970) 14
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Ben Foster I'm learning not to hold on so tightly to my solitude. It's not an economical way to work. A driver would call it 'white-knuckling.' If you're holding on to the wheel so tightly, it's gonna lock up your driving. Releasing myself from trying to control everything has been part of growing up.
    Ben Foster
    American actor (1980 - )
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  • Edward Chilton I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
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  • Boris Johnson If we get outside the EU, if we leave the EU system, we will be relieved of a huge amount of unnecessary regulation that is holding this country back. We will be able to set our own priorities, make our own laws and set our own tax policies to suit the needs of this country. We have a huge opportunity also to make people's votes count for more.
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • Pope Paul VI If you wish to be brothers, let the arms fall from your hands. One cannot love while holding offensive arms.
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  • Agnes Smedley 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
    American journalist and writer (1892 - 1950)
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  • Benjamin Watson In the same way that I cannot be perfect and need grace for my mistakes, I also need to give my kids grace. I am constantly learning to be patient with them, understanding that they won't do everything right all the time, while still holding them to a high standard, as their heavenly father does.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Bertolt Brecht It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • W. H. Auden It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Carine Roitfeld Just because someone is holding a gun doesn't make an image controversial. It all depends on where you put the gun, who is holding it.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Josh Billings Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Jack London Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
    Jack London
    American writer (ps. by John Griffith Chaney) (1876 - 1916)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Judith Viorst Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.
    Judith Viorst
    American writer and journalist (1931 - )
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  • Ben Elton No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi.
    Ben Elton
    British-Australian comedian, author, playwright, actor and director (1959 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won't last forever. We must take it or leave it.
    Mere Christianity (1952)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Blair Underwood 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
    American actor (1964 - )
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  • Warren Buffett Our favorite holding period is forever.
    Warren Buffett
    American investment entrepreneur (1930 - )
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  • Brent Scowcroft Saddam's ouster will not necessarily lead to the same result, since Iraq lacks democratic traditions. Democracy doesn't just consist of holding elections.
    Brent Scowcroft
    American US Air Force officer (1925 - 2020)
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  • Bill Nye Science is the key to our future, and if you don't believe in science, then you're holding everybody back.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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