Held Quotes

2520 quotes by 1835 authors

Sacredness of human life! The world has never believed it! It has been with life that we settled our quarrels, won wives, gold and land,… — Ida Tarbell
Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate,… — Paul Engle
I regard a love for poetry as one of the most needful and helpful elements in the life-outfit of a human being. It was the… — Lucy Larcom
...for the truth is always older than all the opinions men have held regarding it; and one should be ignoring the nature of truth if… — Blaise Pascal
We have learned to say that the good must be extended to all of society before it can be held secure by any one person… — Jane Addams
A visionary company doesn't simply balance between idealism and profitability: it seeks to be highly idealistic and highly profitable. A visionary company doesn't simply balance… — James C. Collins
Heroism is latent in every human soul - However humble or unknown, they (the veterans) have renounced what are accounted pleasures and cheerfully undertaken all… — Joshua Chamberlain
You can't run a society or cope with its problems if people are not held accountable for what they do. — John Leo
In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo. You're judged by how you look, not by what you are. Hollywood's a… — Marilyn Monroe
Trust the Universe. Trust and believe and have faith. I truly had no idea how I was going to bring the knowledge of The Secret… — Rhonda Byrne
No stigma attaches to the love of money in America, and provided it does not exceed the bounds imposed by public order, it is held… — Alexis de Tocqueville
We need not throw away 200 years of American jurisprudence while we fight terrorism. We need not choose between our most deeply held values, and… — Barack Obama
Belief is truth held in the mind; faith is a fire in the heart. — Joseph Fort Newton
Writing, I explained, was mainly an attempt to out-argue one's past; to present events in such a light that battles lost in life were either… — Jules Feiffer
The human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control. — Abraham Lincoln
When a man acts in ways that annoy us we wish to think him wicked, and we refuse to face the fact that his annoying… — Bertrand Russell
Reagan is held up to us as an example of never raising taxes. Correction: Reagan raised taxes six of his eight years as president. Why?… — Eugene Jarecki
One way to ease liquidity for banks is that the government can buy all highly rated securities held by the banks. Every single bank in… — Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
Most often, qualifications are defined by the credentials of the person who last held the job. If that is to continue to be the litmus… — Madeleine M. Kunin
Bind up thy words that they run not riot, and grow wanton, and gather up sins for themselves in too much talking. Let them be… — Saint Ambrose

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