Held Quotes

2520 Held quotes by 1751 unique authors

Wherever the title of streets and parks may rest, they have immemorially been held in trust for the use of the public and, time out… — Jason Epstein
When I first got to the majors in 2004, female fans held up signs asking me to marry them. Those girls today were what, 13,… — David Wright
When I played the Shins, I changed someone's life. When I play Belle and Sebastian in a pivotal scene in my next movie...well, let's just… — Zach Braff
America Held Hostage won 24 Emmys for ABC News, but someone forgot to include my name on the list of people responsible for the show. — Pierre Salinger
Love—the desire to love and be loved, to hold and be held, to give love even if your experience as a recipient has been compromised… — Caroline Knapp
Since the 1950s (until the early 1990s), girls in Kabul and other cities attended schools. Half of university students were women, and women made up… — Eleanor Smeal
Abortion is without a doubt one of the greatest moral evils within modernity. As the "Advocate of Christian Memory," a pope must take up the… — Pope Francis
That's what courage is. Taking your disappointments and your failures, your guilt and your shame, all the wounds received and inflicted, and sinking them in… — Joe Abercrombie
Ever since my children were born, the moment I looked at them I was crazy about them. Once I held them I was hooked. I… — Robin Williams
Europe is often held up as a cautionary tale, a demonstration that if you try to make the economy less brutal, to take better care… — Paul Krugman
Jesus Christ left us an example for our daily conduct. He felt no bitter resentment and He held no grudge against anyone! Even those who… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
So much pressure in this life of mine, I cry at times, I once contemplated suicide and woulda tried, but when I held that nine,… — Tupac Shakur
Liberation does not concern the person, for liberation is freedom from the person. Basically the disciple and teacher are identical. Both are the timeless axis… — Jean Klein
A panel at a beautiful annual literary festival in Brazil, held in the almost Utopian coastal town of Parati, found me matched with Fernando Gabeira.… — Christopher Hitchens
Dearest - my body is simply crazy with wanting you - If you don't come tomorrow - I don't see how I can wait for… — Georgia O'Keeffe
Some critics of my work took the view that a satirist should defer to the finer feelings of his readers and respect widely held beliefs. — David Low
The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith. — Michael Polanyi
Try as they may to savor the taste of eternity, their thoughts still twist and turn upon the ebb and flow of things in past… — Saint Augustine
Stories are not like the real world; they aren't held back by what we know is false or true. What's important is how a story… — Tahir Shah
Remember that a wish held fervently turns into belief, and a belief held diligently becomes reality. — Jim Stovall
God can and will break the labels that have held you hostage. — Craig Groeschel
The saddest thing about ephemerals was that their little lives rarely held time enough for love. — Robert A. Heinlein
Sycamore trees were held to be sacred in ancient Egypt and are the first trees represented in ancient art. The sycamore, also, was sacred. Peasants… — Larry Gates
What am I, Life? A thing of watery salt Held in cohesion by unresting cells, Which work they know not why, which never halt, Myself… — John Masefield
RACK, n. An argumentative implement formerly much used in persuading devotees of a false faith to embrace the living truth. As a call to the… — Ambrose Bierce

Who Wrote These Held Quotes

1,751 authors contributed a total of 2,520 Held Quotes, led by these top contributors: