#hold

Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#behold #cat #fish #forgotten #get

I don't hold America responsible for the largely oppressive governments in the 22 Arab countries. There are repressive Arab governments that are our allies and there are those that are our nominal enemies. It doesn't make a whole lot of difference to what extent we're involved in propping up those governments. ↗

— Lawrence Wright

#america #arab #arab countries #countries #difference

Physiological psychology, on the other hand, is competent to investigate the relations that hold between the processes of the physical and those of the mental life. ↗

— Wilhelm Wundt

#competent #hand #hold #investigate #life

If you've never felt that you quite got a hold of it, you just feel that before you die, you've got to try and get it right once. And hope that the experience you have makes up for the some of the diminishing energy. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

#die #diminishing #energy #experience #feel

I think if progressives stay at this, continue at the grassroots level to make the case that all Americans should have choice, all Americans ought to be able to hold insurance companies accountable, I think we will have 60 votes in the United States Senate for a strong bill. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#accountable #all americans #bill #case #choice

Let's hold insurance companies accountable the right way by making them put their whole customer base on the line. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#base #companies #customer #customer base #hold

The guy keeps making speeches about redistribution and maybe we ought to do something to businesses that don't invest, their holding too much money. We haven't heard that kind of talk except from pure socialists. Everybody's afraid of the government and there's no need soft peddling it, it's the truth. It is the truth. ↗

— Steve Wynn

#afraid #businesses #everybody #except #government

I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue. ↗

— Xenocrates

#i #never #often #speaking #tongue

In a couple of years, the Chinese will be seen as regular participants in international industry. Their companies have to report to shareholders as well as to the Chinese authorities. They need to make money, they have to be efficient. ↗

— Daniel Yergin

#chinese #companies #couple #efficient #industry

Without territory, it does not even have the resources to provide detention facilities for prisoners, even if it were interested in holding captured POWs. ↗

— John Yoo

#detention #does #even #facilities #holding