Hold

Famous quotes containing the word hold:

“The English language may hold a more disagreeable combination of words than “The doctor will see you now.” I am willing to concede something to the phrase “Have you anything to say before the current is turned on?””
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)

“When we have to change our mind about someone, we hold the inconvenience he has caused us very much against him.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand—
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep—while I weep!”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)