Hold Quotes

My job has always been to hold a mirror up to nature.

Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.

Clearly, if it is sensible to hold a referendum on independence, it is crucial that we have one on marriage. It is the only way the country can move forward on this issue. Let all those who have a view on this subject place their trust in the Scottish people and let Scotland decide.

I am determined to hold on as long as possible, but if I should disappear, I should not have had the time to familiarize my successors with the necessary information.

Keep in mind that there are computers, that do touch things up. Like when I got a hold of the poster for 'Gold Diggers,' I said: 'Hey, wait a minute! Those aren't my teeth!'

It is true, indeed, that the national domain is ours. It is true it was acquired by the valor and with the wealth of the whole nation. But we hold, nevertheless, no arbitrary power over it.

It just wasn't right the way they were behind by 25 points and then they're told to hold the ball.

I like to hold the microphone cord like this, I pinch it together, then I let it go, then you hear a whole bunch of jokes at once.

To me, a story can be both concrete and abstract, or a concrete story can hold abstractions. And abstractions are things that really can't be said so well with words.

Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.

We used to hold those secret meetings at her house.

Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.

Mapplethorpe presented the body as a sexual object, separating it from the humanity of the person. He added nothing to photography as a medium. I hold his work in low regard.

It's important to hold something back, though, because quite frankly my personal life is pretty dull and I don't want to bore people with it.

It's always nice to be able to capture your life's experiences in a song and hold the emotion in that way.

I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind.

If you don't have a story that will hold the audience, you won't have a successful show.

No one country has a team that hold a monopoly on the league like Maccabi does in Israel.

I learned the power of radio watching Eleanor Roosevelt do her show. I used to go up to Hyde Park and hold her papers. I was just a messenger, but it planted the bug of radio in me.

I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriage and they can hold that in the sanctity in the place of their religion and not bless them or solemnize them.

It's hard to hold the focus that strongly on a single character for that long.

Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way.

I know how guys talk, so I'm not easily offended. Guys can fight and be best friends five minutes later. Women have to air it out, hold on to it, work on it.

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

What I've found is that there is a tremendous interest in these issues, across the political spectrum, sort of left-right terms we used to describe people don't really hold here exactly.

The most important thing that was new was the idea of URI-or URL, that any piece of information anywhere should have an identifier, which will allow you to get hold of it.

We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.

So in 2000, when we changed the business model and started really focusing on that triangle and putting the customer in the center, we decided we should hold off - we've done enough consolidation; we've got enough critical mass.

I've always been proud of the fact that I can hold it together and I rarely break. It's a point of pride for me.

If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.