#holding

No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi. ↗

— Ben Elton

#collection #conversation #even #holding #natural

This may be done by grafting, by confining the roots, withholding water, bending the branches, or in a hundred other ways which all proceed upon the same principle. ↗

— Robert Fortune

#branches #confining #done #hundred #may

Challenging unfairly subsidized products, fighting counterfeit goods and intellectual property theft and holding countries accountable for an unfair currency regime will help American companies remain competitive. ↗

— Virginia Foxx

#american #american companies #challenging #companies #competitive

As a conservative power, the United States has a vital interest in upholding and expanding the reign of law in international relations. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

#expanding #interest #international #international relations #law

Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands? ↗

— Ernest Gaines

#culture #guns #hands #holding #holding hands

Nothing heals us like letting people know our scariest parts: When people listen to you cry and lament, and look at you with love, it's like they are holding the baby of you. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#cry #heals #holding #know #lament

Being on a book tour is like being on the seesaw when you're a little kid. The excitement is in having someone to play with, and in rising up in the air, but then you're at the mercy of those holding you down, and if it's your older brother, or Paul Wolfowitz, they leap up, so that you crash down and get hurt. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#being #book #book tour #brother #crash

I believe managing is like holding a dove in your hand. If you hold it too tightly you kill it, but if you hold it too loosely, you lose it. ↗

— Tommy Lasorda

#dove #hand #hold #holding #i

Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and it flies away. ↗

— Tommy Lasorda

#dove #enough #flies #hand #hard

Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression. ↗

— T. E. Lawrence

#against #aggression #assert #barren #chose