Held Quotes
2520 quotes by 1835 authors
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Words taken literally or held as ultimate truth can keep us stagnant and stuck, holding on to old ideologies. I now know that everything I…
— Anita Moorjani
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There are many marks of a true lady but I believe that one of them is to walk with her head held high while her…
— Hester Browne
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I have learned that some people who look fine are more crippled than I am, by fears they can’t explain. Other people are held back…
— Cammie McGovern
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I'm tired of ignorance held up as inspiration
— Phil Plait
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The body is held together by sound. The presence of disease indicates that some sounds have gone out of tune.
— Deepak Chopra
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The knights of the theater represented to me not only the pinnacle of the profession but the esteem in which the profession was held. To…
— Patrick Stewart
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People who have no secrets from each other never want for a subject of conversation. They do not weigh their words, for there is nothing…
— Francois Fenelon
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I'm also very much aware that it is you who brought democracy to Chile, you set up a constitution suitable for democracy, you put it…
— Margaret Thatcher
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HYENA, n. A beast held in reverence by some oriental nations from its habit of frequenting at night the burial-places of the dead. But the…
— Ambrose Bierce
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..The past is only an unreliable memory held in the present. The future is only a projection of our present conceptions. The present itself vanishes…
— Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
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Ideas are easy to come by, they spring effortlessly out of the vacuity of the mind and cost nothing. When they are held and projected…
— Robert Beer
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Examine everything that you've been taught, not simply what you've been taught in school, but the images that have been held up to you since…
— Frederick Lenz
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Harlots shall be made pure by their own tears. But you publicans shall be held down by the chains of your own judgement.
— Khalil Gibran
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It has never happened in history that a nation that has won a war has been held accountable for atrocities committed in preparing for and…
— Ramsey Clark
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The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve in an…
— Henry James
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Don't get bitter and twisted and nasty by life. You may have been wronged or cheated on; two wrongs never make a right. Instead learn…
— Angela Merkel
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The situation right after the fight wasn't too good; I believe I'm still the only champion in the world who never received the belt inside…
— Marvin Hagler
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Master and Doctor are my titles; for ten years now, without repose, I held my erudite recitals and led my pupils by the nose.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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A boar is often held by a not-so-large dog.
— Ovid
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I realized both the upper and lower body must be held securely in place with one strap across the chest and one across the hips.…
— Nils Bohlin
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