Hold

Famous quotes containing the word hold:

    “To be made to hold his tongue is the greatest insult you can offer him—though he might be ready with a poker to make you hold yours.”
    —Mrs. Patrick Campbell (1865–1940)

    “There’s something like a line of gold thread running through a man’s words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself. It’s another thing, though, to hold up that cloth for inspection.”
    —John Gregory Brown (20th century)

    “But they that hold God to be [an incorporeal substance] ... do absolutely make God to be nothing at all. But how? Were they atheists? No. For though by ignorance of the consequence they said that which was equivalent to atheism, yet in their hearts they thought God a substance ... So that this atheism by consequence is a very easy thing to be fallen into, even by the most godly men of the church.”
    —Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679)