“This business will never hold water.”
She Wou'd and She Wou'd Not, Act IV (1703).
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“I am a woman and my business is to hold things together.
My business is to tear them apart.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald book Tender Is the Night
Source: Tender Is the Night
Henri Fayol (1841–1925) Developer of Fayolism
Henri Fayol (1917) "Préface à Administration industrielle et générale" in: Dunod and Pinat eds. (1918) l’éveil de l’esprit public. p. 6
“All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter
Undated letter to his daughter "Scottie" (Frances Scott Fitzgerald).
Quoted, Letters
Variant: All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
“Your problem is you are too busy holding on to your unworthiness.”
Ram Dass (1931–2019) American contemporary spiritual teacher and the author of the 1971 book Be Here Now
Conor McGregor (1988) Irish mixed martial artist and boxer
UFC 178 post-event press conference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAAC34JzxS0 (September 2014), Ultimate Fighting Championship, Zuffa, LLC <br class="br">2010s, 2014
“Fifty feet of mast lay in the heaving water, downed lines and shrouds holding it there.”
Abby Sunderland (1993) Camera Assistant, Inspirational Speaker and Sailor
Source: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas (2011), p. 156
“Prohibition may be a disputed theory, but none can complain that it doesn't hold water.”
Thomas Lansing Masson (1866–1934) American journalist
Thomas Lansing Masson (1927) Tom Masson's Book of Wit & Humor. p. 1.