And even if you do wear a maid outfit, it doesn't change the fact that you're strong or that you're smart or that you try really hard at everything you do. I think you'd still deserve to walk with your head held high.
Reading haiku is like viewing a photograph or a painting. A haiku is a moment of time, isolated, and held up for viewing.
The kiss surrounded her like air, held her up like water, supported her like the earth and burned her like fire.
Unrequited love is the only possible way to give yourself to another without being held in indentured servitude.
If you are anguished with your failures, you despise and accuse those very adversities and held them responsible for your debacle.
[Magnus] held on to the boy, newborn in grave dirt and blood, and he wished that he had found him dead.
I held her, but that wasn’t enough to hold us together. That’s where the glue came in.
A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.
I held my breath and wished for that moment to last as long as it possibly could, because a waking dream is always more fleeting than a sleeping one.
for those memories are now just like these little kittens I hold in my hands those can be kissed and treasured but not held too tightly.
And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion.
Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.
Private moments held not a candle to coitus, not even the expensive kind of candle that made the whole room smell of far off seasons.
I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story.
The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh. Its perceptions are still coarse and brutish. It can divine nothing clearly, nothing with certainty.
The widely held belief that the heterosexual nuclear family is best for children has long been used as a smoke screen for homophobia and as a talking point to quash marriage-equality efforts.
When we first sold the Wallace and Gromit shorts to America, people suggested we get rid of the strange British accents and put clear American voices on them, and we held out.
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.
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.
Indeed, an entire generation of Americans has grown to adulthood since the Roe decision of 1973, which held that the right to choose an abortion was a privacy right protected by our Constitution.
Prayers were held in Assembly Hall. We all perched in rows on wooden benches while teachers sat up on the platform in armchairs, facing us.
