Holding On Quotes - Page 5

• Claudia's the sort of girl who goes through life holding onto the sides.

  Alice Thomas Ellis

  Girl, Women, Sides

  5 Copy quote

• Courage is holding on one minute longer than everyone else. Courage is stepping forward when every fiber of your being says step back. Courage is being willing to do the impossible because it is the right thing to do.

  Blaine Lee Pardoe

  Fiber, Steps, Impossible

  11 Copy quote

• To step into tomorrow's possibilities you must let go of yesterday's realities. Be careful of your choices between what was, is and will be. It is very hard to fully step into your destiny while you are still holding on to your history.

  Christine Caine

  Letting Go, Reality, Destiny

  165 Copy quote

• Women saw everything, and they thought about everything. The result was wisdom. For men, this was a frightening state of affairs, which is why they insist on holding on to power.

  Tamar Myers

  Men, Saws, Affair

  45 Copy quote

• You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave.

  Billie Holiday

  Body, Littles, Human Nature

  Billie Holiday, William Dufty (2011). “Lady Sings the Blues: The 50th-Anniversay Edition with a Revised Discography”, p.198, Broadway Books

  64 Copy quote

  Show source

• You dont have to hold on to the pain, to hold on to the memory.

  Janet Jackson

  Forgiveness, Pain, Memories

  17 Copy quote

• Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it; not hard enough and it flies away.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Basketball, Hands, Coaching

  42 Copy quote

• See, that's the thing about second chances. It's two people that are there for each other and support each other and care about each other no matter how much they want to deny it. It's about one person doing everything they can to make sure the other doesn't fall and vice-versa. Second chances are about holding on to that other persons hand no matter how hard they beg to let go.

  Jacqueline Kelly

  Letting Go, Fall, Second Chance

  4 Copy quote

• There's something in us that is very much attracted to madness. Everyone who looks off the edge of a tall building has felt at least a faint, morbid urge to jump. And anyone who has ever put a loaded pistol up to his head... All right, my point is this: even the most well-adjusted person is holding onto his or her sanity by a greased rope. I really believe that. The rationality circuits are shoddily built into the human animal.

  Stephen King

  Depression, Suicide, Believe

  25 Copy quote

• The only thing that burns in hell is the part of you that won't let go of your life: your memories, your attachments.
  They burn them all away, but they're not punishing you, they're freeing your soul.
  If you're frightened of dying and you're holding on, you'll see devils tearing your life away.
  If you've made your peace, then the devils are really angels freeing you from the earth.

  Meister Eckhart

  Letting Go, Memories, Angel

  185 Copy quote

• You've developed the strength of a draft horse while holding onto the delicacy of a daffodil ... you are the mother, advocate and protector of a child with a disability.

  Lori Borgman

  Mother, Horse, Children

  47 Copy quote

• If you wish to be brothers, let the arms fall from your hands. One cannot love while holding offensive arms.

  Pope Pius VI

  Brother, Fall, Hands

  24 Copy quote

• Charles had once remarked that holding onto a resentment was like eating rat poison and waiting for the rat to die.

  Anne Lamott

  Drinking, Waiting, Poison

  Anne Lamott (2011). “Crooked Little Heart: A Novel”, p.236, Anchor

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive.

  Dorothee Solle

  Hands, Giving, Ifs

  Dorothee Sölle (1984). “The Strength of the Weak: Toward a Christian Feminist Identity”, p.33, Westminster John Knox Press

  28 Copy quote

  Show source

• And maybe getting a grip and letting go are not so dissimilar, when the holding on or the letting go is all part of moving on-getting on with it. Getting on with the difficult and dizzying business of living.

  Tim Wynne-Jones

  Letting Go, Moving, Difficult

  4 Copy quote

• Ive never really been anywhere, and now I get to go everywhere. I just have to make sure theres enough memory on my computer to hold all my pictures.

  Carrie Underwood

  Memories, Computer, Enough

  7 Copy quote

• There are a lot of Christians who are halfway fellows. They stand in the door, holding on to the Church with one hand while they play with the toys of the world with the other. They are in the doorway and we can't bring sinners in. And, until we get some of God's people right, we cannot hope to get sinners regenerated. Now they always accuse me of carrying around a sledge hammer with which to pound the church members. Yes sir, I do pound them, every time I come down, I knock one of the halfway fellows out of the doorway, and every time I knock one out I get a sinner in.

  Mordecai Ham

  Christian, Doors, Hands

  18 Copy quote

• The people of our city are holding on by a thread. Time has run out. Can we survive another night? And who can we depend on? Only God knows.

  Ray Nagin

  Running, Night, Cities

  5 Copy quote

• Eventually I realize that I am holding on to him just as tightly as he holds on to me. And here we are: two small dying things, as the world ends around us like falling autumn leaves.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Love, Fall, Autumn

  Lauren DeStefano (2011). “Wither”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Each day brought just another minute of the things they could not leave behind. Jane Barrington sitting on the train coming back to Leningrad from Moscow, holding on to her son, knowing she had failed him, crying for Alexander, wanting another drink, and Harold, in his prison cell, crying for Alexander, and Yuri Stepanov on his stomach in the mud in Finland, crying for Alexander, and Dasha in the truck, on the Ladoga ice, crying for Alexander, and Tatiana on her knees in the Finland marsh, screaming for Alexander, and Anthony, alone with his nightmares, crying for his father.

  Paullina Simons

  Father, Son, Knowing

  4 Copy quote

• Tell me when it's over " Thalia said. Her eyes were shut tight. The statue was holding on to us so we couldn't fall but still Thalia clutched his arm like it was the most important thing in the world. "Everything's fine " I promised. "Are... are we very high " I looked down. Below us a range of snowy mountains zipped by. I stretched out my foot and kicked snow off one of the peaks. "Nah " I said. "Not that high.

  Rick Riordan

  Fall, Eye, Feet

  7 Copy quote

• Stick to the basics, hold on to your family and friends - they will never go out of fashion.

  Niki Taylor

  Family, Fashion, Sticks

  37 Copy quote

• In trying to justify the humanities, as in trying to live a life, what may turn out to matter most is holding one's nerve.

  Stefan Collini

  Humanity, Trying, Nerves

  4 Copy quote

• To devote yourself to the creation and enjoyment of beauty, then, can be a serious business-not always necessarily a means of escaping reality, but sometimes a means of holding on to the real when everything is flaking away into... rhetoric and plot.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Real, Mean, Escaping

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.120, Bloomsbury Publishing

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Data are pointing to very strong growth in the fourth quarter. The pessimistic viewpoint, which has seen its grip on reality slip to the last knuckle in the past few months, is now holding on by its fingernails.

  Brian Wesbury

  Strong, Past, Reality

  4 Copy quote