They Held Quotes

36 quotes by 34 authors

Perhaps this was what Queens did. Perhaps they held their Kings in the darkness, deep within their castles and allowed them that moment of weakness… — David Gaider
Some hypocrites and seeming mortified men, that held down their heads, were like the little images that they place in the very bowing of the… — William Laud
They held up 'The Outlaw' for five years. And Howard Hughes had me doing publicity for it every day, five days a week for five… — Jane Russell
Those who influenced me the most are not those who pointed out all my faults, but those who knew God was bigger than my shortcomings.… — Phil Callaway
I have always admired men and women who used their talents to serve the community, and who were highly respected and admired for their efforts… — Nelson Mandela
I knew words were like chains, they held me back . . . the act of description taints the description. — John Fowles
The twin guardian angels whose eyes and hands and wings had focused protective attention on the souls that lay there no longer faced each other.… — Claire Morgan
Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions; . . . that laws were like cobwebs, - for that if any trifling… — Diogenes
I've always been scared of advertising folk. I've met them at parties and I've been to their offices and I've always found them intimidatingly cool.… — Evan Davis
...and the night was comfortably warm as the soft filtered light continued to push the darkness into the shadows as they held each other and… — Hubert Selby, Jr.
What did my arms do before they held you? — Sylvia Plath
The landscape was snow and green ice on broken mountains. These weren't old mountains, worn down by time and weather and full of gentle ski… — Terry Pratchett
His eyes were bright, and, indeed, he scarcely knew whether they held dreams or realities...and in five minutes she had filled the shell of the… — Virginia Woolf
I looked at other couples and wondered how they could be so calm about it. They held hands as if they weren't even holding hands.… — Miranda July
What did my fingers do before they held him? What did my heart do, with its love? — Sylvia Plath
But what was there to say? Only that there were tears. Only that Quietness and Emptiness fitted together like stacked spoons. Only that there was… — Arundhati Roy
My parents gave me the gift of irreligion, of growing up without bothering to ask people what gods they held dear, assuming that in fact,… — Salman Rushdie
They held hands and knew that only the coffin would lie in the earth; the bubbly laughter and the press of fingers in the palm… — Toni Morrison
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
All her life she'd been warned that men were slaves to their desires, that they held their impulses in barely controlled check. A woman--a lady--must… — Elizabeth Hoyt

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