Held Quotes
2520 quotes by 1835 authors
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I was always the type of person that whenever I started something I finished it. And, I was always held accountable for my actions.
— Victor Cruz
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At the end of all this, Russia held in her hands a vast belt of land running from the Baltic sea in the north to…
— John T. Flynn
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I still held fast to my determination to become a minister; it still seemed to me that that was my duty. I had pledged myself,…
— Pierre Loti
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Manz, formerly one of Zwingli's closest allies, held that there was no biblical warrant for infant baptism. Refusing to recant his views, he was tied…
— Alister E. McGrath
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Our meetings are held to discuss many problems which would never arise if we held fewer meetings.
— Ashleigh Brilliant
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For many years Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of…
— Ben Hecht
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Truth is for tailors and shoemakers. I, on the contrary, have always held that the Lord has a penchant for masquerades.
— Isak Dinesen
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The Second World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences between the Fascists and the political Zionists. This war must be brought…
— Albert Pike
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If one lives in a country where racism is held valid and practiced in all ways of life eventually, no matter whether one is a…
— Chester Himes
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A civilization without retail bookstores is unimaginable. Like shrines and other sacred meeting places, bookstores are essential artifacts of human nature. The feel of a…
— Jason Epstein
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Wherever the title of streets and parks may rest, they have immemorially been held in trust for the use of the public and, time out…
— Jason Epstein
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When I first got to the majors in 2004, female fans held up signs asking me to marry them. Those girls today were what, 13,…
— David Wright
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When I played the Shins, I changed someone's life. When I play Belle and Sebastian in a pivotal scene in my next movie...well, let's just…
— Zach Braff
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America Held Hostage won 24 Emmys for ABC News, but someone forgot to include my name on the list of people responsible for the show.
— Pierre Salinger
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Love—the desire to love and be loved, to hold and be held, to give love even if your experience as a recipient has been compromised…
— Caroline Knapp
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Since the 1950s (until the early 1990s), girls in Kabul and other cities attended schools. Half of university students were women, and women made up…
— Eleanor Smeal
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Abortion is without a doubt one of the greatest moral evils within modernity. As the "Advocate of Christian Memory," a pope must take up the…
— Pope Francis
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That's what courage is. Taking your disappointments and your failures, your guilt and your shame, all the wounds received and inflicted, and sinking them in…
— Joe Abercrombie
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Ever since my children were born, the moment I looked at them I was crazy about them. Once I held them I was hooked. I…
— Robin Williams
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Europe is often held up as a cautionary tale, a demonstration that if you try to make the economy less brutal, to take better care…
— Paul Krugman
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