Held Quotes

2520 quotes by 1807 authors

If the unicorn does live among the snows held up forever on the line of the Equator then it is clear why the world should… — Odell Shepard
The heart that is to be filled to the brim with holy joy must be held still. — George Seaton
Inflation is not always the main problem, or indeed a problem at all. Sometimes, though rarely, deflation is a more serious threat, and we need… — Gavyn Davies
To be worth making at all a journey has to be made in the mind as much as in the world of objects and dimensions.… — Ted Simon
Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting… — Coleman Dowell
When an object or purpose is clearly held in thought, its precipitation, in tangible and visible form, is merely a question of time. The vision… — Lilian Whiting
The name of my ailment was longing, and it was not cured till I finally went to the department store and counted out the money… — William Christopher Handy
How often do we stand convinced of the truth of our early memories, forgetting that they are assessments made by a child? We can replace… — Benjamin Zander
We try to realize the essential unity of the world with the conscious soul of man; we learn to perceive the unity held together by… — Rabindranath Tagore
Places are fragmentary and inward-turning histories, pasts that others are not allowed to read, accumulated times that can be unfolded but like stories held in… — Michel de Certeau
I was in a prayer meeting yesterday. You gotta appreciate how scared, how scares folks on that side of the equation are. From their vantage… — Michelle Shocked
If one can understand why people behave as they do then often the road to forgiveness is opened. Not only is forgiveness essential for the… — Terry Waite
That was the year the British decided to get out and sell everything. So I immediately held an election. I knew the people will be… — Lee Kuan Yew
Under the pretext of study we spent our hours in the happiness of love, and learning held out to us the secret opportunities that our… — Peter Abelard
My job at Stanford is rather different from the ones I had held previously in that my own ambitions must take a back seat to… — Robert B. Laughlin
In 1491 the Inka ruled the greatest empire on earth. Bigger than Ming Dynasty China, bigger than Ivan the Greatâ€™s expanding Russia, bigger than Songhay… — Charles C. Mann
Many of the white people [who] have been instruments in the hands of God for our good, even such as have held us in captivity,… — Richard Allen
I was much affected by the internal troubles of the Punch family; I thought that with a little more tact on the part of Mrs.… — Edmund Gosse
The United States Supreme Court has repeatedly held that marriage is one of the most fundamental rights that we have as Americans under our Constitution. — Ted Olson
Neither the wording of the amendment itself nor common practice challenged the widely held belief that government guaranteed freedom of religion, not freedom from religion. — Linda Chavez

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