While there are few records of Viking women participating in battle, they certainly held positions of high status in society as human sorceresses known as 'volvas.'
The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.
In a sinful world, no community can exist for long where nobody is ever held accountable: no teacher would grade a student's performance; no citizen would sit on a jury or call a failed leader to account.
I love Obama's calm and dignity. A lot of people confuse that with being aloof, but I know people that have held that job. It's a 24-hour barrage of information.
The path of progress cuts through the four-way intersection of the moral, medical, religious and political - and whichever way you turn, you are likely to run over someone's deeply held beliefs.
My celebrity has held steady since the day I began acting. I don't view it as celebrity. I'm just a worker.
I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.
People are like mugs with different handles. Some can be held by their emotions; others by their logic, passions, desires or dreams
I have been seeing dragons again. Last night, hunched on a beaver dam, one held a body like a badly held cocktail; his tail, keeping the beat of a waltz, sent a morse of ripples to my canoe. They are not richly bright but muted like dawns or the vagu...
I notice you didn’t include a blade with your new attire,” Royce said. “Not even a little jeweled dagger.” “Lords no.” Albert looked appalled. “I don’t fight.” “I thought all nobles learned sword fighting.” Royce looked to Hadri...
The anti-psychiatrists held various, sometimes conflicting views but one particular line of reasoning is attributable to all of them—they all pitched their arguments against the power of the psychiatric establishment. They argued that the psychiatr...
The Irish were poor, but not enslaved. He had come here to hack away at the ropes that held American slavery in place. Sometimes it withered him just to keep his mind steady. He was aware that the essence of proper intelligence was the embrace of con...
Melancholy held me hostage, and the bees built a hive of sadness in my soul.
I couldn't stand here, hanging on, when the very thing I held disappeared more with each passing day.
God was just. She held on to that knowledge and the hope that the day of justice would eventually arrive.
To be held in his arms I long for that day The da that I get to see more wonderful things
...Time held me green and dying Though I sang in my chains like the sea.
I couldn't ignore the fact that it felt good. So. Very. Good. To be held, in bed, in the arms of a tall, strong, handsome man.
There was no need to analyze the feelings that the people caught in the commission of the amorous act, held for each other, for it was literally written in their hands.
Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.
You held me down and rammed me so hard I deep-throated you from the other end.
