#holding

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

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

Let me tell you the polls that count, and those are the polls a couple of weeks before the election. That's when the pollsters worry about holding onto their credibility. Those are the polls that everybody remembers. ↗

— Rush Limbaugh

#before #count #couple #credibility #election

I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early mornings setting out, those evenings gleaming with rivers and lakes below us, still holding the last light. ↗

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#been #below #early #early mornings #evenings

I've got a right to knock down anybody holding a bat. ↗

— Early Wynn

#bat #down #got #holding #i

People really feel that, when they go to the gas pump now, that the oil cartel is holding them by the legs and tipping them upside down and shaking money out of their pockets. ↗

— Ed Markey

#feel #gas #go #holding #legs

That's the premise of the Saudi Arabians. He's holding the president's hand with one. In the other hand, he's got his hand in the pocket of American consumers. ↗

— Ed Markey

#american consumers #arabians #consumers #got #hand

Even when you are not playing you are holding me back. ↗

— Eugene Ormandy

#even #holding #me #playing #you

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer. ↗

— George S. Patton

#fear #holding #holding on #longer #minute