Best They Hold Quotes
143 They Hold quotes by 126 unique authors
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How dare the smooth talkers, the clever official blabbers, open their mouths and boast of progress. . . . Here they hold jubilant peace conferences…
— Max Nordau
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It was about the preciousness of that, and how they viewed those birds as art, as something valuable. I didn't care one way or another…
— Nick Cave
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Since inequalities of privilege are greater than could possibly be defended rationally, the intelligence of privileged groups is usually applied to the task of inventing…
— Reinhold Niebuhr
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My role on television is one of helping people reexamine the assumptions that they hold. I regard Dr. King. You would never hear me get…
— Tavis Smiley
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On the other hand, I still approach each book with the same basic plan in mind - to put some people under severe stress and…
— Terry Brooks
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Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their…
— Isabel Paterson
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Sooner or later we all must die. Warriors choose to do so on their feet, standing between their enemies and those they hold dear. With…
— Unknown Author
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Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their…
— Isabel Paterson
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The men who are great live with that which is substantial, they do not stay with that which is superficial: they abide with realities, they…
— Laozi
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Be grateful for your difficulties and challenges, for they hold blessings. In fact... Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health personal growth, individuation and…
— Carl Jung
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People think edges are bad, but they are really there to keep up from falling to pieces. They don't hold us back, they hold us…
— Lisa Mangum
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[Conservatives] go to church, they do lots of things for free for each other. They hold potluck dinners. ... They serve food to poor people.…
— Lawrence Lessig
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There are moments of clarity daily. They open me up with a breath and keep me calm. They feed me the answers. And they hold…
— Buddy Wakefield
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What separates or unites people is not their language, their laws, their customs, their principles, but the way they hold their knife and fork.
— Irene Nemirovsky
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Even if you know you're sleeping, you're still at the mercy of your dreams. People who are asleep can't simply decide to wake up. Nightmares…
— Steven James
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That's what people who love you do: they hold you and lie. They tell you that you're worthy, that everything will be all right, and…
— Carrie Jones
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Cowgirl is a spirit, a special brand of courage. The cowgirl faces life head on, lives by her own lights, and makes no excuses. Cowgirls…
— Dale Evans
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Our human nature is profoundly phototropic. Men obey their deepest instincts when they hold fast to light.
— Gyorgy Kepes
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A detective novel should contain no long descriptive passages, no literary dallying with side-issues, no subtly worked-out character analyses, no 'atmospheric' preoccupations. Such matters have…
— S. S. Van Dine
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In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the twentieth-century writer that he aspires to madness.…
— Don DeLillo
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They hold their great balls in the open air, in what is called a fairy-ring. For weeks afterward you can see the ring on the…
— James M. Barrie
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The fact is that people who strap bombs to their bodies to blow up families at a Bar Mitzvah in Israel, plant bombs at a…
— Dennis Prager
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If men want to oppose war, it is statism that they must oppose. So long as they hold the tribal notion that the individual is…
— Ayn Rand
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Wise books For half the truths they hold are honored tombs.
— George Eliot
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The things that hold women back, hold them back from sitting at the boardroom table and they hold women back from speaking at the PTA…
— Sheryl Sandberg
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