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When you're wrecked, that's the only thing you can do, right? Hold on to whatever you can. Hold on hard.


Lili St. Crow

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“Hold on tight and fight as hard as you can.
A.A. FREDA You think, 'Here's something I can hold on to,' but it always slips away.
TIM THARP You think that holding someone hard will bring them closer. You think that you can hold them so hard...
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OSCAR AULIQ-ICE Only you can hold yourself back, only you can stand in your own way. Only you can help yourself.
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IAN RUSH The difference between you and me is that I couldn’t let you go while you couldn’t hold on
DALEEN IRSHAID It takes love to hold on when you want to let go. It takes love to let go when you want to hold on.
KATE MCGAHAN We can only hold off on this for so long.
LINCOLN BORMANN Hold on! Watch and pray! God gives nice answers to slanders! You can trust Him for answers, for He c...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I had it all wrong. Before I found you, I thought the only way to hold on was to find something to l...
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ST. JEROME I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.
BERNARD ST. I've been so entwined with technology since I was about 15, recording myself and multitracking a...
ST. VINCENT Well, I've been recording myself on a computer since I was about 13 or 14. So it's completel...
ST. VINCENT Someone may ask, 'How is justice greater than all the other virtues?' The other virtues grat...
ST. JEROME I'm supportive of women, absolutely, and it's so gratifying to have girls come up and say, &...
ST. VINCENT Troubles are usually brooms and shovels that smooth the road to the good man's fortune; and many a m...
ST. BASIL What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way.
ST. JEROME And if I'm honest about it, I was obsessed with Nirvana and Pearl Jam. This is like '92, rig...
ST. VINCENT I feel like when you're in your late teens and early 20s, you just don't think about certain...
ST. LUCIA If you want to build a ship
don’t herd people together to collect wood
and don’t assig...
ST. EXUPERY No one is too big to be courteous, but some are too little
ST. BASIL I was a lusty kid who loved Tennessee Williams.
ST. VINCENT It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is...
BERNARD, ST. Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love becau...
BERNARD, ST.