
Source: https://theosophy.world/sites/default/files/ebooks/Annie%20Besant-In-The-Outer-Court.pdf In the Outer Court, 1895, p. 60
Ron English's Fauxlosophy (2016)
Source: https://theosophy.world/sites/default/files/ebooks/Annie%20Besant-In-The-Outer-Court.pdf In the Outer Court, 1895, p. 60
“I am a woman and my business is to hold things together.
My business is to tear them apart.”
Source: Tender Is the Night
“It was as if I were writing letters to hold together the pieces of my crumbling life.”
Source: Norwegian Wood
Katniss, p. 186/187
The Hunger Games trilogy, The Hunger Games (2008)
“In my mind's eye my thoughts light fires in your cities.”
“Something has got to hold it together. I'm saying my prayers to Elmer, the Greek god of glue.”
Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)
“Hold on. So in my mind, this jacked-up, sideways ridiculousness is the normal state?”
Source: Bleach, Volume 01
Beaumont and Fletcher Philaster, Act III, sc. ii, line 144.
These lines are used almost unaltered ("holds" becoming "does hold") in Act III, sc. ii of Buckingham's The Restauration, an adaptation of Philaster. They appear with an attribution to Buckingham in many 19th century collections of quotations, e.g. Henry George Bohn A Dictionary of Quotations from the English Poets (1867) p. 63, and hence also on several quotation websites.
Misattributed