#holding

It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection. ↗

— Anonymous

#life-lessons #life

If we really want to make progress and achieve greater fairness as a society, it is time for elemental change. And we should start by looking at the Constitution, with the goal of holding a new Constitutional Convention. ↗

— Larry J. Sabato

#change #constitution #constitutional #convention #elemental

The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#holding #least #meetings #most #ones

Our South Australian farmers left their holdings in the hands of their wives and children too young to take with them, but almost all of them returned to grow grain and produce to send to Victoria. ↗

— Catherine Helen Spence

#australian #children #farmers #grain #grow

It’s not that we have to quit this life one day, but it’s how many things we have to quit all at once: music, laughter, the physics of falling leaves, automobiles, holding hands, the scent of rain, the concept of subway trains... if only one could leave this life slowly! ↗

— Roman Payne

#beauty #carpe-diem #dying #holding-hands #laughter

Who says you cannot hold the moon in your hand? Tonight when the stars come out and the moon rises in the velvet sky, look outside your window, then raise your hand and position your fingers around the disk of light. There you go . . . That was easy! ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#aim-high #attaining #disk #goal #goals

You can only milk a cow so long, then you're left holding the pail. ↗

— Hank Aaron

#holding #left #long #milk #only

I’ll never let go of you again,” she whispered. “I swear it. ↗

— Dianna Hardy

#holding-on #letting-go #lost-love #love #love-and-loss

Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#least #metaphors #most #space #truth

It is time for the government of China to stop holding innocent religious figures in captivity merely for peacefully protesting China's occupation of Tibet. ↗

— Sam Brownback

#china #figures #government #holding #innocent