Held Quotes
2520 quotes by 1835 authors
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If I held you any closer I would be on the other side of you.
— Groucho Marx
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We do all, myself included, we tend to hold ourselves to pretty low standards. But when it comes to judging public figures or politicians or…
— Moby
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When you say 'failure,' that seems really dramatic, but a lot of failure is just really depressing and mundane. I remember the first time I…
— Moby
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It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
— Moliere
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
— Michel de Montaigne
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I have learned not to overlook the advantages of being me. From when I was a softball player, and I held the stolen bases record.…
— Aimee Mullins
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Politicians don't like to face unpleasant realities. In truth, nobody does, but as individuals, we have no choice; if we neglect to plan ahead, we…
— Nathan Myhrvold
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I enjoy every minute, because there are going to be a lot of moments in your future that you're going to wish you held onto…
— Joe Nichols
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Republicans have called for a National African-American Museum. The plan is being held up by finding a location that isn't in their neighborhood.
— Conan O'Brien
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Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.
— Carroll O'Connor
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I'm no longer just a candidate. I'm the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I have held in…
— Barack Obama
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You know, one of the things I think you understand as president is you're held responsible for everything, but you don't always have control of…
— Barack Obama
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People have a lot of different beliefs, and at the end of the day, we all have deeply held beliefs that probably don't make sense…
— Trey Parker
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The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.
— Ron Paul
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Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
— Norman Vincent Peale
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I had watched for many years and seen how a few rich families held much of Argentina's wealth and power in their hands. So Peron…
— Evita Peron
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Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release…
— Plautus
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The idea that the rest of the world was somehow being held hostage by the Arab-Israeli conflict once had a minimal basis in reality. In…
— John Podhoretz
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I get constantly mistaken for Elijah Wood. I was in Japan and someone held out a photo of him for me to sign.
— Daniel Radcliffe
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Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and…
— Tariq Ramadan
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