Held Quotes
2520 quotes by 1835 authors
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I've never wanted to grow up too fast. I wanted to wear a sports bra until I was 22! ... The allure of being sexy…
— Emma Watson
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The hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Ah, I fancy it is just the same with most of what you call your emancipation. You have read yourself into a number of new…
— Henrik Ibsen
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A tale is told of a man in Paris during the upheaval in 1948, who saw a friend marching after a crowd toward the barricades.…
— Abbott Lawrence Lowell
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A small child from a developing country has the advantage, from a very early age, of having access to toys which structure his mind, which…
— Abdoulaye Wade
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The words Socialism and Communism have the same meaning. They indicate a condition of society in which the wealth of the community: the land and…
— Sylvia Pankhurst
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Photography is a contest between a photographer and the presumptions of approximate and habitual seeing. The contest can be held anywhere ...
— John Szarkowski
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For all Nature is as one Great Engine, made by, and held in His Hand.
— Nehemiah Grew
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Man is the only slave. And he is the only animal who enslaves. He has always been a slave in one form or another, and…
— Mark Twain
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I held a blue flower in my hand, probably a wild aster, wondering what its name was, and then thought that human names for natural…
— Sally Carrighar
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This was life! Ah, how he loved it! Civilization held nothing like this in its narrow and circumscribed sphere, hemmed in by restrictions and conventionalities.…
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
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What the universal Church holds, not as instituted [invented] by councils but as something always held, is most correctly believed to have been handed down…
— Saint Augustine
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I would like to see the lack of demonization for those of us who stand on sincerely held religious beliefs. It's overdue. That's where you…
— Michele Bachmann
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I have held and hold souls to be immortal.... Speaking as a Catholic, they do not pass from body to body, but go to paradise,…
— Giordano Bruno
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Here is a law which is above the King and which even he must not break. This reaffirmation of a supreme law and its expression…
— Winston Churchill
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I confess that I am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by those who think that the normal state of human beings…
— John Stuart Mill
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After you marry, every asset either of you acquires is jointly held. That's why you both need to be in sync on your long-term financial…
— Suze Orman
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Do not let the future be held hostage by the past
— Neal A. Maxwell
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It may be unpopular and out-of-date to say-but I do not think that a scientific result which gives us a better understanding of the world…
— Alfred Tarski
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At a press conference yesterday NASA announced that 2005 was the hottest year on record. It is so hot, and global warming is so bad,…
— Jay Leno
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