#holding

Miss Morstan and I stood together, and her hand was in mine. A wondrous subtle thing is love, for here were we two, who had never seen each other until that day, between whom no word or even look of affection had ever passed, and yet now in an hour of trouble our hands instinctively sought for each other. I have marveled at it since, but at the time it seemed the most natural thing that I would go out to her so, and, as she has often told me, there was in her also the instinct to turn to me for comfort and protection. So we stood hand in hand like two children, and there was peace in our hearts for all the dark things that surrounded us. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#comfort #dark-things #holding-hands #instinct #love

I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office. ↗

— Dean Acheson

#describe #does #employment #glad #happily

There's something honorable about holding out for love and not breaking up for the sake of the baby. I see people get divorced, and there is a part of me that thinks, I wonder how hard they tried? ↗

— Judd Apatow

#baby #breaking #breaking up #divorced #get

It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#anything #back #commit #doing #drink

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. ↗

— Barbara de Angelis

#always #back #holding #lose #loving

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

Sensitive, responsive, eagerly welcomed everywhere, the drama, holding the mirror up to nature, by laughter and by tears reveals to mankind the world of men. ↗

— George P. Baker

#eagerly #everywhere #holding #laughter #mankind

My mom didn't want me to go to college. She didn't want me to read - when I read, I may as well have been holding a pineapple. ↗

— Lynda Barry

#college #go #holding #i #may

I've never believed much in that holding hands kind of love. I've always thought that love is about two different personalities trying to confront life, trying to make sense of their responsibilities, to themselves, to each other, and to the wider society. ↗

— Alan Bates

#always #believed #confront #different #different personalities

The woman who does not choose to love should cut the matter short at once, by holding out no hopes to her suitor. ↗

— Marguerite de Valois

#cut #does #her #holding #hopes