Held Quotes
2520 quotes by 1835 authors
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Championship teams are built on being prepared, playing unselfishly and being held accountable
— Jason Kidd
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And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated…
— Abraham Lincoln
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I fear that many of us rush about from day to day taking for granted the Holy Scriptures. We scramble to honor appointments with physicians,…
— Carlos E. Asay
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That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred ans sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within…
— Abraham Lincoln
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My deeply held belief is that if a god of anything like the traditional sort exists, our curiosity and intelligence is provided by such a…
— Carl Sagan
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Your heart is as fresh as your face; and that is well. The useless men are those who never change with the years. Many views…
— James M. Barrie
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We all have an enormous responsibility to bring to the attention of others information they do not have, which has the potential of causing them…
— Howard Zinn
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I never dreamed of being Shakespeare or Goethe, and I never expected to hold the great mirror of truth up before the world; I dreamed…
— Peter Altenberg
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A delusion held by one person is a mental illness, held by a few is a cult, held by many is a religion.
— Robert Todd Carroll
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This opinion, however, is held by most, that the devil was an angel, and that, having become an apostate, he induced as many of the…
— Origen
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There are many men who would have done better than I did under the circumstances in which I found myself. If I had never held…
— Ulysses S. Grant
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A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort, or enslaves him, or attempts to limit the freedom of his mind, or…
— Ayn Rand
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Child abuse is still sanctioned — indeed, held in high regard — in our society as long as it is defined as child-rearing. It is…
— Alice Miller
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It takes courage to grieve, to honor the pain we carry. We can grieve in tears or in meditative silence, in prayer or in song.…
— Jack Kornfield
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The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The…
— Federico Fellini
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When society is made up of men who know no interior solitude it can no longer be held together by love: and consequently it is…
— Thomas Merton
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What was the freedom to which the adult human being rose in the morning, if each act was held back or inspired by the overpowering…
— Delmore Schwartz
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Although socialism is widely held by the establishment to be outdated, the things that are most popular in British society today are little pockets of…
— Tony Benn
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For, usually and fitly, the presence of an introduction is held to imply that there is something of consequence and importance to be introduced.
— Arthur Machen
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Comrades, there is no true social revolution without the liberation of women. May my eyes never see and my feet never take me to a…
— Thomas Sankara
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