“ The more we try to get a grip on information, the more it slips through our fingers like a ghost. Information, in fact, is the ghost of meaning, and our society's worship of the ghost signals a continuing loss of meaning. ”
- Stephen L. Talbott- Copy
- 2.5K
“ I don't know what they mean by an icon. I never thought of myself as being that. It seems strange to me. I was just modeling, thinking of as many different poses as possible. I made more money modeling than being a secretary. I had a lot of free time… ”
- Bette Page- Copy
- 1.7K
“ It's like being a Knight of the Garter. It's an honor, but it doesn't hold up anything. ”
- Fulton J. Sheen- Copy
- 781
“ A pint can't hold a quart — if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it. ”
- Margaret Deland- Copy
- 695
“ It is clear the future holds great opportunities. It also holds pitfalls. The trick will be to avoid the pitfalls, seize the opportunities, and get back home by six o'clock. ”
- Woody Allen- Copy
- 3.4K
“ I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity — it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind. ”
- Norman Mailer- Copy
- 518
“ I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind. ”
- St. Bernard- Copy
- 496
“ Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Summing up, it is clear the future holds great opportunities. It also holds pitfalls. The trick will be to avoid the pitfalls, seize the opportunities, and get back home by six o'clock. ”
- Woody Allen- Copy
- 3.9K
“ The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better. ”
- Lee Iacocca- Copy
- 2K
“ The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better. ”
- Robert P. Vanderpoel- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself. ”
- Anthony Trollope- Copy
- 1.6K
“ You can't hold back your feelings inside when you see something like that. ”
- Eric Williams- Copy
- 2.1K
“ It's great to just disappear, grab a suitcase, switch the answering machine on and just go somewhere else. ”
- Dido Armstrong- Copy
- 3.2K
“ It was said that Mr. Gladstone could persuade most people of most things, and himself of anything. ”
- Dean Inge- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his fist. ”
- Kenneth Tynan- Copy
- 2.4K
“ The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity. ”
- Benjamin Disraeli- Copy
- 2.9K
“ A pint can't hold a quart-if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it. ”
- Margaret Deland- Copy
- 142
“ The more we try to catch hold of the present moment the more elusive it becomes. It is like trying to clutch water in ones hands. The harder we grip, the more it slips through our fingers. ”
- Alan Watts- Copy
- 3.9K
“ It is said that Mr. Gladstone could persuade most people of most things, and himself of anything. ”
- Dean William R. Inge- Copy
- 422
“ Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee … I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now. ”
- Margaret Atwood- Copy
- 794
“ When you clench your fist, no one can put anything in your hand, nor can your hand pick up anything. ”
- Alex Haley- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Children hold spring so tightly in their brown fists - just as grownups, who are less sure of it, hold it in their hearts. ”
- E. B. White- Copy
- 991
“ A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities. ”
- Charles de Gaulle- Copy
- 2.8K
“ One has to handle these negative experiences alone.You can't get help from your friends or family.You're finally alone with it, and you have to come to grips with misfortune and go on. ”
- Shirley Temple Black- Copy
- 3.2K
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