Held Quotes
2520 quotes by 1835 authors
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I don't think my religious convictions should be held against me
— Tony Abbott
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The Liberals, apparently, want to prorogue the House. They want to run out of town, get out of town just one step ahead of the…
— Stephen Harper
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These are men and women who are willing to risk their lives in defense of their country. And the fact that their orientation - sexual…
— Dick Durbin
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For every grand and finely worded statement by the CEO, the brand is also defined by derisory consumer comments overheard in a hallway, or in…
— Scott Bedbury
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Spaces devoted to Hannibal Lecter’s earliest years differ from the other archives in being incomplete. Some are static scenes, fragmentary, like painted attic shards held…
— Thomas Harris
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Demon or angel or evil spirit, I just need something to show itself. Ghoulie or ghosty or long-legged beastie, I just want my hand held.
— Chuck Palahniuk
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When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.
— Bill Bradley
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It is eminently possible to have a market-based economy that requires no such brutality and demands no such ideological purity. A free market in consumer…
— Naomi Klein
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We were not foolish enough to try to make a currency [backed by] gold of which we had none, but for every mark that was…
— Adolf Hitler
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The devil told my mind that my thoughts held no power; and this seemed true until my thoughts I began to speak.
— Stefanie Schneider
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You've got to struggle against the pollution of intelligence in order to become an animal with very sharp instincts - a sort of intuitive medium…
— Robert Doisneau
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All I ask is to be held above the barren wastes of want.
— Wilfred Owen
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I am convinced that when we bring our griefs and sorrows within the story of God's own grief and sorrow, and allow them to be…
— N. T. Wright
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Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in.
— Gary Ackerman
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And, of course, in the Philippines there were so many thousands of Americans that were captured by the Japanese and held and who were rescued…
— Dana Rohrabacher
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American POWs from the last Iraq war, who were held prisoner and tortured by Iraq, are now being prevented by our government from suing the…
— Dana Rohrabacher
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Looking out of the window at the infinite sky, I prayed out, 'Dear Baby Jesus, I am sorry for my sin, even though I do…
— Louise Rennison
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Of course the sands of Present Time are running out from under our feet. And why not? The Great Conundrum: 'What are we here for?'…
— Brion Gysin
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The foundations demand that public schools and teachers be held accountable for performance, but they themselves are accountable to no one. If their plans fail,…
— Diane Ravitch
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Friendship is held to be the severest test of character.
— Charles Alexander Eastman
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