Quotes of: Held Keyword

To pine for the days before public education became a practical reality is to pine for an America held back by mass ignorance and mass illiteracy.

Timothy Noah

I'm part of a community that holds each other up, and it's been great to be held up too.

Elizabeth Edwards

Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in.

Gary Ackerman

Of course, I want to look good, as that helped me get jobs. But it didn't get me the jobs I wanted and it held me back.

Rufus Sewell

I held the generous, strong, beautiful hand of my first wife Cassie as ovarian cancer took her life much too soon.

Pierce Brosnan

There was a time when the one singular thing that held a marriage together was the threat of getting the kids.

Erma Bombeck

I refuse to be held responsible for bringing back a wave of pasty-faced people into the world.

Brian Molko

I believe in justice, and I believe in people being held responsible for their actions.

Bruce Willis

If people have done something wrong then they should be held accountable.

Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

Civilization is held together by duct tape and spit, and I'm worried about the duct tape.

Jacqueline Patricks

We tried burying the waste at sea and the concrete cannisters that held it cracked open.

David R. Brower

Our personal consumer choices have ecological, social, and spiritual consequences. It is time to re-examine some of our deeply held notions that underlie our lifestyles.

David Suzuki

V: The only verdict is vengeance, a vendetta, held as a votive not in vain.

V for Vendetta

There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.

Niccolo Machiavelli

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

John Updike

The only expenditure, and all its outworkings, for which God can be held to be responsible is that which He directs.

Amy Carmichael

I don't like things held up before me that I cannot have.

Arthur Golden

I read the papers every day just to discover if one mentions Anna Held.

Anna Held

First Ladies have always been held like specimens under a media microscope.

Andre Leon Talley

Every great oak was once a stubborn little nut who held his ground.

Love

I could not see beauty until I held hands with chaos in silence.

Vironika Tugaleva