Holding On Quotes - Page 6

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

  Bruce Springsteen

  Challenges, Innocence, Idealism

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• How many boys like him were out there in the ether, holding on to their big brothers and sisters who were still alive? How many husbands were floating between life and death, clinging to their wives in this world? And how may millions and millions of people were there in the world like Charlie who wouldn't let go of their loved ones when they're gone?

  Ben Sherwood

  Letting Go, Brother, Husband

  Ben Sherwood (2010). “Charlie St. Cloud: A Novel”, p.191, Bantam

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• Yeah, sometimes life really sucks. But you know what I'm holding on for? The moments that don't suck. The trick is to notice them when they come around.

  Veronica Roth

  Eyebrows, Mimicking, Sometimes

  "Allegiant". Book by Veronica Roth, 2013.

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• Real courage is holding on to a still voice in your head that says, 'I must keep going.' It's that voice that says nothing is a failure if it is not final. That voice that says to you, 'Get out of bed. Keep going. I will not quit.'

  Cory Booker

  Graduation, Real, Voice

  "Most of all, be kind, Newark Mayor Cory Booker tells seniors at Class Day" by Susan Gonzalez, news.yale.edu. May 19, 2013.

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• Letting go has never been easy, but holding on can be as difficult. Yet strength is measured not by holding on, but by letting go.

  Lenny Santos

  Moving On, Letting Go, Breakup

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• I think Democrats often hold the unconstrained vision, and Republicans focus more on the Rule of Law.

  John Fund

  Thinking, Law, Focus

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• Life is about holding on and letting go.

  Keith Urban

  Letting Go, Life Is

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• Everyone said, ‘Brace yourself, Lupita! Keep a granola bar in that clutch of yours!’ I didn’t really understand what they meant, and it was only once it was past that I realized that my body had been holding on by a thread to get through this very intense experience. Nothing can prepare you for awards season. The red carpet feels like a war zone, except you cannot fly or fight; you just have to stand there and take it.

  Lupita Nyong'o

  War, Fighting, Past

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• Holding on to love is not wrong, but you need to learn to hold it lightly, caressingly. Let it fly when it wants. When it's allowed to be free, love is what makes life alive, joyful, and new. As long as love is in my heart, it's everywhere.

  Michael Jackson

  Heart, Love Is, Long

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• I was working at the store on the Sony studios in Culver City. And I was literally holding a shirt when they came in and told me I'd got the part! It just shows dreams do come true.

  Derek Luke

  Dream, Cities, Shirts

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I guess I'm still holding on to something that I know will probably never happen, because somewhere deep down inside me, I have this little piece of hope that someday, it will.

  Drake

  Hope, Rapper, Hip Hop

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• It's the Roman numeral for 10. 5/5/89 is my birthday: 5 plus 5 is 10, and this is my tenth year since I got into music. 'X' is the 24th letter in the alphabet, and I will turn 24 when this album comes out. 'X' is also a metaphor, as in 'ex-girlfriend': it implies you're progressing and moving on in life, not holding on to the past and your old ways.

  Chris Brown

  Girlfriend, Moving, Past

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• 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.

  Diahann Carroll

  Distance, Sanity, Difficult

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• I think it's sad when people stop dreaming, or start losing hope. Because holding onto the bonkers dream might just turn out to be the most marvellous thing you ever did.

  Miranda Hart

  Dream, Thinking, People

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• So when I got to 50 I just thought, Hold on: I'm thin. I've got my hair. I'm well off. I survived, you know

  Bob Geldof

  Hair, Wells, Knows

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• An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue.

  Henry James

  Literature, Tongue, Natural

  1881 Isabel Archer. The Portrait of a Lady, ch.10.

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• Dignity is the reward of holding oneself accountable to conscience.

  Wes Fesler

  Accountability, Rewards, Dignity

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

  E. Stanley Jones

  Christian, Christian Inspirational

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

  Niki Taylor

  Family, Fashion, Sticks

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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