#holding

This idea of holding the Defense Department hostage to the tax debate makes me sick to my stomach. Knock it off. ↗

— Lindsey Graham

#defense #department #holding #hostage #idea

We need, first of all, for there to be accountability, for there to be somebody who is responsible for enforcing standards and holding people's feet to the fire. ↗

— Jennifer Granholm

#enforcing #feet #fire #first #first of all

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#go #holding #holding on #letting #letting go

Of everyone else who was running, and there were some very talented people, none of them had anywhere near the experience I had in hiring people, holding them accountable, creating systems for accountability. ↗

— John Hickenlooper

#accountable #anywhere #creating #else #everyone

But there is no obvious reason for holding that some normal adults are entitled to make choices for other normal adults, as paternalists of both left and right believe. ↗

— Tom G. Palmer

#both #choices #entitled #holding #left

The last time I saw him he was walking down lover's lane holding his own hand. ↗

— Fred Allen

#down #hand #him #his #holding

One who hates is a man holding a magnifying-glass, and when he hates someone, he knows precisely that person's surface, from the soles of his feet all the way up to each hair on the hated head. ↗

— Hermann Broch

#feet #hair #hated #hates #head

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

Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn't that what people do? ↗

— Bret Easton Ellis

#holding-on #human-nature #nature

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

— Orson Scott Card

#least #metaphors #most #space #truth