Held Quotes

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All the events you have experienced in your lifetime up to this moment have been created by your thoughts and beliefs you have held in… — Louise Hay
Buddha is said to have given a "silent sermon" once during which he held up a flower and gazed at it. After a while, one… — Eckhart Tolle
Firefly: Where is your husband? Mrs. Teasdale: Why, he's dead. Firefly: I'll bet he's just using that as an excuse. Mrs. Teasdale: I was with… — Groucho Marx
We go forward with our heads held high, but look back and remember where we come from. — Michael Hudson
PROJECTILE, n. The final arbiter in international disputes. With the growth of prudence in military affairs the projectile came more and more into favor, and… — Ambrose Bierce
The large shiny black forehead of the first whale was no more than two yards from us when it sank beneath the surface of the… — Virginia Woolf
Some time ago we heard a strange story. The pilot of a small plane said that he had been caught in a one hundred fifty… — James Keller
The Metropolitan Museum of Art some time ago held a display of contemporary art at which $52,000 was awarded to American sculptors, painters, and artists… — James Keller
New insights fail to get put into practice because they conflict with deeply held internal images of how the world works...images that limit us to… — Peter Senge
Love will fly if held too lightly Love will die if held too tightly . . . — Oscar Wilde
What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation - all of it! - was held… — Alan Bradley
Women have been held back and limited throughout the centuries. Creation could not have been rendered, not even considered, let alone be brought into manifestation… — Alice Coltrane
My greatest fear in life is standing before the Lord and hearing Him say, â€˜I had so much more for you, but you held on… — Larry Burkett
I'm tired of ignorance held up as inspiration, where vicious anti-intellectualism is considered a positive trait, and where uninformed opinion is displayed as fact. — Phil Plait
The wealth gathered by Jamsetji Tata and his sons in half a century of industrial pioneering formed but a minute fraction of the amount by… — J. R. D. Tata
The piano is a divinely inspired instrument, a mirror held up to its player's soul that captures the light and shadow of the performer and… — David Lanz
I can generate suctional forces, which act indirectly and are entirely undetectable. No current of air can be noticed; only an almost imperceptible cooling, as… — Viktor Schauberger
The security provided by a long-held belief system, even when poorly founded, is a strong impediment to progress. General acceptance of a practice becomes the… — Bernard Lown
Again, after his fall, God gave him an occasion to repent and to receive mercy but he kept his stiff-neck held high. He came to… — Dorotheus of Gaza
I don't know why togetherness was ever held up as an ideal of marriage. Away from home for both, then together, that's much better. — Carolyn Heilbrun

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