#hold

The anchors now made are contrived so as to sink into the ground as soon as they reach it, and to hold a great strain before they can be loosened or dislodged from their station. ↗

— William Falconer

#before #contrived #great #great strain #ground

My wife holds the kite strings that let me go 'weeeeeee', then she reels me back in. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#go #holds #kite #me #she

When men change, maybe Bond will change. But let's wait. I'm not holding my breath. ↗

— Barbara Broccoli

#breath #change #holding #i #maybe

I doubt whether the world holds for any one a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice-cream. ↗

— Heywood Broun

#any #doubt #first #holds #i

When you're C.E.O., you have to have two conditions: first, shareholders need to trust you and want you to head your company. The second is that you need to feel the motivation to do the job. So, as long as both are reunited, you continue to do the job. And today, they are reunited. ↗

— Carlos Ghosn

#company #conditions #continue #feel #first

The Tea Party represents stakeholders in the American system; people who were never involved in politics or thought they had to be, yet realized that political corruption and incompetence threatened not only their families, but the future of the nation itself. ↗

— Tammy Bruce

#corruption #families #future #had #incompetence

But our system of regulation must keep up with this. If it fails to keep up, it will hold back economic expansion. We need financial market regulation that works at national and European level. ↗

— John Bruton

#economic #european #expansion #fails #financial

What holds an Arab leader in power is a mixture of violence and prestige. Both President Assad and King Hussein were felt to have defended Arab interests against the world. That, in the end, is more important than what they wear on their head. ↗

— James Buchan

#arab #both #defended #end #felt

Unfortunately, in today's world we have to be reminded that the power of an oath derives from the fact that in it we ask God to bear witness to the promises we make with the implicit expectation that He will hold us accountable for the manner in which we honor them. ↗

— James L. Buckley

#ask #bear #derives #expectation #fact

You can't be too careful what you tell a child because you never know what he'll take hold of and spend the rest of his life remembering you by. ↗

— Frederick Buechner

#careful #child #his #hold #know