#hold

The quality that defines us as Americans is the courage to respond to being hit. The courage to root out and destroy the killers. And, most importantly, the courage to hold on to our values and protect our hard-won freedoms while doing it. ↗

— Nick Clooney

#courage #defines #destroy #doing #freedoms

I don't hold that everybody has to love fashion. Some people like gardening. ↗

— Steven Cojocaru

#fashion #gardening #hold #i #like

I hold with Henry George, that at the back of every great social evil will be found a great political wrong. ↗

— Alfred Russel Wallace

#every #evil #found #george #great

In a high school, the norms act to hold down the achievements of those who are above average, so that the school's demands will be at a level easily maintained by the majority. ↗

— James S. Coleman

#achievements #act #average #demands #down

You cannot hold on to anything good. You must be continually giving - and getting. You cannot hold on to your seed. You must sow it - and reap anew. You cannot hold on to riches. You must use them and get other riches in return. ↗

— Robert Collier

#anything #cannot #continually #get #getting

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#good #good writing #holding #swimming #under

It's no fun feeling your thoughts are being controlled by an electrode, and someone else is holding the clicker. ↗

— Alice Weaver Flaherty

#controlled #else #feeling #fun #holding

Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. ↗

— James Bryant Conant

#his #makes #neck #only #out

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge. ↗

— Confucius

#hold #know #knowledge #thing #you

We live in downtown Manhattan and we have pretty big windows that looked right at the World Trade Center. I was home along with Kai and we watched it all happen. I was holding him in my arms and we were looking out the window when the second plane hit. ↗

— Jennifer Connelly

#arms #big #center #downtown #happen