Held Quotes
2520 quotes by 1807 authors
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Philosophers have often held dispute As to the seat of thought in man and brute For that the power of thought attends the latter My…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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His eyebrows drew together. He was perilously close to unibrow; I guess nobody had held him down and administered a good plucking to the caterpillar…
— Lilith Saintcrow
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Just so you know, I'm straight. Totally straight. As an arrow." Her voice held a smile. "So am I
— Carrie Vaughn
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A man's magic demonstrates what sort of person he is, what is held most deeply inside of him. There is no truer gauge of a…
— Jim Butcher
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I like to think of fire held in a man's hand. Fire, a dangerous force, tamed at his fingertips. I often wonder about the hours…
— Ayn Rand
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I held my crotch, closed my eyes and repeated my secret catechism.
— Iain Banks
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The perfect stillness of the night was thrilled by a more solemn silence. The darkness held a presence that was all the more felt because…
— William James
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It was an emergency!" Seth blurted. "Read my lips - emergency reading - not some demented idea of fun. If I was starving, I would…
— Brandon Mull
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Forever in your arms Is where I want to be Holding you close Within the space That once held only me... Forever in your warmth…
— Walter Dean Myers
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My Papa's Waltz: The whiskey on your breath Could make a small boy dizzy; But I hung on like death: Such waltzing was not easy.…
— Theodore Roethke
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More poignant for us, at Laetoli in Tanzania are the companionable footprints of three real hominids, probably Australopithecus afarensis, walking together 3.6 million years ago…
— Richard Dawkins
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And in a small house five miles away was a man who held my mud-encrusted charm bracelet out to his wife. Look what I found…
— Alice Sebold
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I'm never nervous when I go to meet heads of state. I feel they should be nervous, because they are the ones who'll be held…
— Unknown Author
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Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high, where knowledge is free. Where the world has not been broken up into…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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So everything we believe about happiness is wrong," I said. He nodded. Everything?" I asked, when what I meant was, Everything? Including you? Including me?…
— Megan McCafferty
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A little smile, a word of cheer, A bit of love from someone near, A little gift from one held dear, Best wishes for the…
— John Greenleaf Whittier
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If you were lucky, very lucky indeed, there were one or two people in your life who you could tell the unvarnished truth too, shell…
— Julia Gregson
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We got off at the next exit, quietly, and, switching drivers, we walked in front of the car. We met and I held him, my…
— John Green
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Hold still," my father would say, while I held the ship in the bottle and he burned away the strings he'd raised the mast with…
— Alice Sebold
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Grace. I held on to that name. If I kept that in my head, I would be OK. Grace. I was shaking, shaking; my skin…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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