#holding

A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you. ↗

— Will Rogers

#company #goods #hand #holding #policeman

The amount of U.S. debt held by countries such as China and Japan is at a historic high, with foreign investors holding half of America's publicly held debt. This dependence raises the specter that other nations will be able to influence our policies in ways antithetical to American interests. ↗

— Evan Bayh

#america #american #american interests #amount #antithetical

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. ↗

— George Orwell

#beliefs #both #contradictory #holding #means

My mother has always been the social glue holding the family together. ↗

— Kim Kardashian

#been #family #glue #holding #mother

My Uncle, of course, would have been pleased to see someone with brown skin holding the office of president. ↗

— Alveda King

#brown #course #holding #office #pleased

For us, holding on to religious rules, and following them, and refraining from what's forbidden, and being diligent with our duties, what do we call that? That's what we call freedom. ↗

— Muqtada al Sadr

#call #diligent #duties #following #forbidden

When you fly to New York, sometimes they put you on hold and you just go round and around in a holding pattern. Sometimes in a concert, I feel other spirits in a holding pattern that they want to land through my heart and through my fingers. ↗

— Carlos Santana

#concert #feel #fingers #fly #go

Something happens to us all when we experience something as a unit that doesn't occur when we're on our couches or holding our little portable DVD players. ↗

— David Ogden Stiers

#dvd #experience #happens #holding #little

Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult. ↗

— David Ogden Stiers

#catch #difficult #generating #hard #hard work

No," Lana said, "I'm not going to heal your scratch." "Good," Sanjit said. "Good? Why good?" "Because when you hold my hand, I don't want it to be work for you. ↗

— Michael Grant

#gone #hand-holding #lana #love #michael-grant