Annie Besant (1847–1933) British socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator
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)
Annie Besant (1847–1933) British socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator
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.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald book Tender Is the Night
Source: Tender Is the Night
Suzanne Collins (1962) American television writer and novelist
Katniss, p. 186/187
The Hunger Games trilogy, The Hunger Games (2008)
“In my mind's eye my thoughts light fires in your cities.”
Charles Manson (1934–2017) American criminal and musician
“Something has got to hold it together. I'm saying my prayers to Elmer, the Greek god of glue.”
Tom Robbins book Still Life with Woodpecker
Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)
Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games
Katniss Everdeen, p. 5
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, The Hunger Games (2008)
“Hold on. So in my mind, this jacked-up, sideways ridiculousness is the normal state?”
Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist
Source: Bleach, Volume 01
George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham (1628–1687) English statesman and poet
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