#holding

Some people believe that holding on and hanging there are signs of strength, but there are times in life when it takes much more strength just to let go. ↗

— Ann Landers

#life

Frodo: I can't do this, Sam. Sam: I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something. Frodo: What are we holding onto, Sam? Sam: That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo... and it's worth fighting for. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#holding-on #lord-of-the-rings #sam-gamgee #stories #chance

It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk. ↗

— Bertolt Brecht

#clerk #easier #holding #rob #setting

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

I didn't do the marching down the streets, jumping in front of the lines and holding hands... that wasn't me. ↗

— Solomon Burke

#front #hands #holding #holding hands #i

Sigmund Freud was the apostle of disbelief. He was the one who made psychoanalysis a part of our culture, and in so doing he kicked out a flying buttress that had been essential for holding up our cathedral of faith. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#been #cathedral #culture #disbelief #doing

I love romantic comedies. They're for me the easiest thing to do and the most natural to do. There's nothing natural about holding an uzi hanging out of a moving van shooting at people. That's not second nature to me, thank God. ↗

— Gabrielle Union

#comedies #easiest #easiest thing #god #hanging

I was in the South of France. I saw a Brownie on a school trip. She was holding up a book. It said on the front 'rough guide'. I thought: 'Yeah' she's not a looker. ↗

— Jimmy Carr

#france #front #guide #holding #i

I think it's a good thing that there are bloggers out there watching very closely and holding people accountable. Everyone in the news should be able to hold up to that kind of scrutiny. I'm for as much transparency in the newsgathering process as possible. ↗

— Anderson Cooper

#able #accountable #bloggers #closely #everyone

The more you expose yourself as a celebrity, the less interesting you are to watch in your work, because if you're putting yourself out there all the time, you're not holding anything back. ↗

— John Cusack

#back #because #celebrity #expose #holding