#hold

What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold. ↗

— Walter Annenberg

#doing #hold #matters #right #standards

When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom. ↗

— Walter Annenberg

#boredom #hold #into #knots #laziness

I wanted to make good records. But my problem is I've got a low boredom threshold, so I wanted it to look and sound different with each album, which is really tantamount to suicide, cause people lose it, they lose it - they say: 'I like that, and that's not this.' ↗

— Adam Ant

#boredom #cause #different #each #good

Palestine is the cement that holds the Arab world together, or it is the explosive that blows it apart. ↗

— Yasser Arafat

#arab #arab world #blows #cement #explosive

India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities. ↗

— Sri Aurobindo

#ages #beginning #cannot #even #her

Sometimes I wish that applause would come just a bit later, when it is so beautifully hushed that I feel like holding my breath in the silence of the end. ↗

— Emanuel Ax

#beautifully #bit #breath #come #end

Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#bad #being #blow #cannot #company

In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#attraction #cannot #circumstance #coupled #england

The Postal Service's unmatched ability to reach every household and business in America six days a week is a vital part of the nation's infrastructure. ↗

— Joe Baca

#america #business #days #every #household

I used to tremble from nerves so badly that the only way I could hold my head steady was to lower my chin practically to my chest and look up at Bogie. That was the beginning of The Look. ↗

— Lauren Bacall

#beginning #chest #chin #could #head