Held Quotes
2520 Held quotes by 1751 unique authors
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Never before has the seductive market way of life held such sway in nearly every sphere of American life. This marketing way of life promotes…
— Cornel West
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The Yoga of the Dream State has always held to be one of the fastest, most efficient ways of reaching a plateau experience of subtle…
— Ken Wilber
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What shall I say of the gallantry with which these Marines have fought! Of the slopes of Hill 142; of the Mares Farm; of the…
— Unknown Author
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Love is a time-honored way to transcend the separate-self sense and leap into the sublime; Treya and I held hands, closed our eyes, and jumped.
— Ken Wilber
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But strictly held by none, is loosely bound By countless silken ties of love and thought To everything on earth the compass round, And only…
— Robert Frost
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All the events you have experienced in your lifetime up to this moment have been created by your thoughts and beliefs you have held in…
— Louise Hay
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Buddha is said to have given a "silent sermon" once during which he held up a flower and gazed at it. After a while, one…
— Eckhart Tolle
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Firefly: Where is your husband? Mrs. Teasdale: Why, he's dead. Firefly: I'll bet he's just using that as an excuse. Mrs. Teasdale: I was with…
— Groucho Marx
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We go forward with our heads held high, but look back and remember where we come from.
— Michael Hudson
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PROJECTILE, n. The final arbiter in international disputes. With the growth of prudence in military affairs the projectile came more and more into favor, and…
— Ambrose Bierce
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The large shiny black forehead of the first whale was no more than two yards from us when it sank beneath the surface of the…
— Virginia Woolf
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Some time ago we heard a strange story. The pilot of a small plane said that he had been caught in a one hundred fifty…
— James Keller
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art some time ago held a display of contemporary art at which $52,000 was awarded to American sculptors, painters, and artists…
— James Keller
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New insights fail to get put into practice because they conflict with deeply held internal images of how the world works...images that limit us to…
— Peter Senge
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Love will fly if held too lightly Love will die if held too tightly . . .
— Oscar Wilde
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What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation - all of it! - was held…
— Alan Bradley
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Women have been held back and limited throughout the centuries. Creation could not have been rendered, not even considered, let alone be brought into manifestation…
— Alice Coltrane
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My greatest fear in life is standing before the Lord and hearing Him say, ‘I had so much more for you, but you held on…
— Larry Burkett
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I'm tired of ignorance held up as inspiration, where vicious anti-intellectualism is considered a positive trait, and where uninformed opinion is displayed as fact.
— Phil Plait
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The wealth gathered by Jamsetji Tata and his sons in half a century of industrial pioneering formed but a minute fraction of the amount by…
— J. R. D. Tata
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The piano is a divinely inspired instrument, a mirror held up to its player's soul that captures the light and shadow of the performer and…
— David Lanz
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I can generate suctional forces, which act indirectly and are entirely undetectable. No current of air can be noticed; only an almost imperceptible cooling, as…
— Viktor Schauberger
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The security provided by a long-held belief system, even when poorly founded, is a strong impediment to progress. General acceptance of a practice becomes the…
— Bernard Lown
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Again, after his fall, God gave him an occasion to repent and to receive mercy but he kept his stiff-neck held high. He came to…
— Dorotheus of Gaza
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I don't know why togetherness was ever held up as an ideal of marriage. Away from home for both, then together, that's much better.
— Carolyn Heilbrun
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