I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through…

Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.

— Baron de Montesquieu

When writing about historical characters I try to be as accurate as possible, and in particular not to misrepresent the view they held. With…

— Pat Barker

“Ah, Lord Northcliff, how well you look this afternoon!” “Thank you. I feel well indeed.” Taking Amy’s hand, he held it in both of…

— Christina Dodd

Only in Washington would the Republican operatives get the entire press corps ginned up over the notion that I'm going to be home campaigning…

— Claire McCaskill

“Like that box held the last little piece of what was normal, and I wasn't ready to give it up just yet.”

— Sarah Dessen

“The very things that held you down are gonna carry you up and up and up.”

— Timothy Mouse

I was held in the Mazra Tora Prison for my role as leader of the pan-Islamist organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir in Alexandria.

— Maajid Nawaz

As many of the riders before me had been held up and robbed of their packages, mail and money that they carried, for that…

— Calamity Jane

I had always held everything in before.

— Neil Diamond

We have held forums here at the White House on workplace flexibility, and the first major bill signed into law by President Obama was…

— Valerie Jarrett

I almost gave up on you today... but then I remembered why I held on so long.

— Ritu

Being shy has never held me back.

— Roberto Firmino

I've never held out. I'm a first-class guy in any relationship. The first way of getting better is showing up, so I'm always going…

— Antonio Brown

In a recent decision of the Supreme Court, not made, however, by the full court, and concurred in by only four justices, it was…

— John Bates Clark

When we first sold the Wallace and Gromit shorts to America, people suggested we get rid of the strange British accents and put clear…

— Nick Park