Held Quotes
2520 quotes by 1835 authors
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The intelligence community's 2002 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) stated, in a formal presentation to President Bush and to Congress, its view that Saddam had weapons…
— Laurence Silberman
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Nor did Americans believe that Republicans had been waging war on minorities, women, or gays - especially given that Republicans have held the House only…
— Victor Davis Hanson
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Winning control of the Senate would allow Republicans to pass a whole range of measures now being held up by Reid, often at the behest…
— Charles Krauthammer
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Any person without invincible prejudice who had the same experience would come to the same broad conclusion, viz., that things hitherto held impossible do actually…
— Oliver Lodge
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We held the team together for as long as possible and then sent all except the most critical personnel home.
— Bo Gritz
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But I always held my music up and protected it from compromise. So I just do it for my friends. I've written hundreds of songs,…
— Gregory Harrison
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Well, let's see. There's-of course in the great history of America there have been rulings that there's never going to be absolute consensus by every…
— Sarah Palin
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For the first time a British force had met, held and decisively defeated a major Japanese attack, and followed this up by driving the enemy…
— William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim
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The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me in favor of Atlanta University; so about the last…
— James Weldon Johnson
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They wanted to speak, but could not; tears stood in their eyes. They were both pale and thin; but those sick pale faces were bright…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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What then, is correctness of speech but the maintenance of the practice of others, as established by the authority of ancient speakers? But the weaker…
— Saint Augustine
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I took my mother's knife and played johnny johnny johnny on the playhouse floor. I was drunk, stabbed myself every few throws. I held my…
— Janet Fitch
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It is comfortable to see the standard of reason at length erected, after so many ages, during which the human mind has been held in…
— Thomas Jefferson
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One might suppose that reality must be held to at all costs. However, though that may be the moral thing to do, it is not…
— Isaac Asimov
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His mother and father were agnostics, and Jim respected devout Christians in the same way that he respected people who were members of the Graf…
— J. G. Ballard
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There can be no love so long as there is lust- even a speck of it, as it were, in the heart. None but men…
— Swami Vivekananda
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They did not believe in making any contracts. They believed that as long as you were organized, you could hold the office to what it…
— Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
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I could feel the warmth of his presence as if a soft blanket had been wrapped around my soul, around my heart. It held me…
— Colleen Houck
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For me and Michelle, this visit has therefore held special meaning. Throughout my life, including my work as a young man on behalf of the…
— Barack Obama
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This Apostolic Church never turned from the way of truth nor held any kind of error. It is imperative that nothing of the truths which…
— Pope Agatho
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