Be Held Quotes

#1. May the humanity that is within every human being be held precious. The vice that underlies all vices is that we are held cheap by others, and far worse, that in our innermost soul we think cheaply of ourselves.

Felix Adler

#2. When once you realize all that it cost God to forgive you, you will be held as in a vice, constrained by the love of God.

Oswald Chambers

#3. I'm never nervous when I go to meet heads of state. I feel they should be nervous, because they are the ones who'll be held accountable for the lives their decisions will impact the most.

Bono

#4. A man of over thirty might be held to be at the height of his powers, but not necessarily of his wisdom.

Dorothy Dunnett

#5. The whole reason we organize grassroots is, we think any politician that gets elected needs to be held accountable 365 days a year.

Chris Matthews

#6. Falling in love is not at all the most stupid thing that people do - but gravitation cannot be held responsible for it.

Albert Einstein

#7. Religious and spiritual leaders should be held accountable for environmental activism, not only because they have access to large communities and can influence votes, but because service is integral to religious and spiritual life.

Radhanath Swami

#8. I don't understand why people expect tips. In hotels you order food in your room, and it's already more expensive from the room service menu, so it's a cheek to expect a tip on top. I do sometimes reward good service, but it should be at my discretion, and I'm not going to be held to ransom.

Bernard Hill

#9. Pope Pius XI called for a world-wide day of prayer, to be held on 16 March 1930, on behalf of the persecuted believers in Russia. This action led Stalin to suspend temporarily the antireligious campaign, according to Roy Medvedev

Lynne Viola

#10. While people out there on the spot certainly have to be held accountable for what they've done personally, the chain of command responsibility for this strikes me as just as important and should be dealt with.

William Odom

#11. And if God has given you a lot of ability, I believe you should be held to a higher level of expectation.

Tony Dungy

#12. I was bullied a lot because I was a midget in this land of giants I lived in. Sometimes, my only weapon was whatever I could throw. I couldn't be held responsible. I didn't choose the short life; the short life chose me.

Nicole Banks

#13. I therefore beg leave to move that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessing on our deliberations, be held in this Assembly every morning ...

Benjamin Franklin

#14. Our mind cannot be without fear and our head cannot be held high when we become slaves to materialistic values , always wondering why my car is not bigger and better than my neighbours car and in that process forget our human values like dignity, humility , integrity and humanity.

Jeroninio Almeida

#15. I remind myself it's nothing I have to hold or be held to.

Courtney Summers

#16. In this, of all the countries in the world, possession of inordinate wealth by individuals should be held as a crime against Indian humanity.

Mahatma Gandhi

#17. Kid's books should be just as good as any other books. No. They should be held to a *higher* standard than other literature for the same reason that we take extra care with children's food.

Patrick Rothfuss

#18. There was much in such a society that was primitive and insecure and it certainly could never measure up to the demands of the present epoch. But in such a society are contained the seeds of revolutionary democracy in which none will be held in slavery.

Nelson Mandela

#19. We cannot be held to what is beyond our strength and means; for at times the accomplishment and execution may not be in our power, and indeed there is nothing really in our own power except the will: on this are necessarily based and founded all the principles that regulate the duty of man.

Michel De Montaigne

#20. The fortress of Europe with its frontiers must be held and will be held too, as long as is necessary.

Heinrich Himmler

#21. I don't think my religious convictions should be held against me.

Tony Abbott

#22. God cannot be held to the narrowness of literal and materialistic interpretations, nor measured by Human measurements, for His days are eons, and a thousand ages of our time are like an evening to Him.

Margaret Atwood

#23. It can be held certain that information that is withheld or suppressed contains truths that are detrimental to the persons involved in the suppression.

J. Edgar Hoover

#24. It is rare for people to say they want to be held accountable, but in reality, everyone wants everyone else to be held accountable.

David Cottrell

#25. If scientists can't communicate with the public, with policy makers, with one another, the future is going to be held back. We're not going to have the future that we could have.

Alan Alda

#26. Ron Reagan amazingly qualifies as an honest broker. I asked him if he was a mama's boy and he said no, more of a papa's boy. At the same time he was willing to say that his father had many shortcomings and needed to be held accountable.

Eugene Jarecki

#27. Hard as it may appear in individual cases, dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful.

Thomas Malthus

#28. the thngs that matter most in this world can never be held in our hand.

Gloria Gaither

#29. Riches and honor are what everyone desires, but if they can be gained only by doing evil, they must not be held. Don't worry about not being in office, worry about qualifying yourself for office. Don't worry that no one knows you, but seek to be worthy of being known.

Confucius

#30. Should each individual snowflake be held accountable for the avalanche?

Franz Wright

#31. I do believe that leaders have to be held to a higher standard, especially Christian leaders. I put myself in that camp.

Max Lucado

#32. If I'm hip, we've got a problem in this country. I really shouldn't be held up as any model of hipness. If anything, I think I'm sort of old school in my approach to objective reporting and not wearing my opinion on my sleeve. There's a lot of that in American TV news these days. Too much, in fact.

Anderson Cooper

#33. Prince Asaka had joined the army only about ten days before its entry into Nanking and in view of the short time he was connected with this army I do not think he can be held responsible. I would say that the Division Commanders are the responsible parties.

Iwane Matsui

#34. Children and babies should be held in the most sacred regard. We feel that they're the most natural and true magicians.

Zeena Schreck

#35. If you had to pick the values that would be held dear to a broad number of Hispanic voters, access to opportunity would be a higher value than guarantee of security, particularly amongst the newly arrived, meaning the last 20 years.

Jeb Bush

#36. I think a man needs to be a man. To hold a woman the way she wants to be held. Just do whatever your woman wants, and you'll be fine.

Jason Momoa

#37. Her hands crept around his neck, tangling in his hair to keep him closer, even though she knew that beautiful boys with expiration dates couldn't be held, only borrowed for a time.

Martina Boone

#38. During the day, memories could be held at bay, but at night, dreams became the devil's own accomplices.

Sharon Kay Penman

#39. Joy cannot be held at heel: it must be let go. Joy is a pilgrim virtue. It is a gift that walks, walks on the path of life, that walks with Jesus: preaching, proclaiming Jesus, proclaiming joy, lengthens and widens that path.

Pope Francis

#40. If you say something that undermines the stability of the country, then you have to be held accountable.

Najib Razak

#41. A thousand people will stop smoking today. Their funerals will be held sometime in the next three or four days.

C. Everett Koop

#42. They are forever, a brief and mortal forever, a forever that will grow into their bones and be held inside them after it ends, intact, indestructible.

Tana French

#43. We should never forget the government should be held accountable for providing services.

Margaret Chan

#44. If a kid is old enough to drive a car or buy a gun, isn't he old enough to be held personally responsible for what he does with his car or gun? Or if he's a teenager, should someone else be blamed because he isn't as enlightened as an eighteen-year-old?

Marilyn Manson

#45. I could be held back just by being needed. Please try not to need me. That's the worst bait of all to a lonely man.

John Steinbeck

#46. The Christian faith grew through story - not text. Only later did the stories become Scripture. While the Scripture must be held in the highest regard, we must not neglect the power of story.

Erwin McManus

#47. Would it be so horrible if I did nothing? Could I be held to blame?

C.J. Roberts

#48. The cure against the bite of thanklessness. The remedy is in the retina. How we behold determines if we hold joy. Behold glory and be held by God.

Ann Voskamp

#49. Ethics are a key issue, and they're a key issue on the Democratic side, and all people have to be held to high standards.

Jeb Bradley

#50. In a season like this,
I wouldn't be held by the snow.
With all these feelings of bliss,
I've to put aside my ego
And step out to let you know,
With you, I'm well pleased
And the love you show,
Is to me the bee's knees.

Emmanuel Aghado

#51. If we bear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left, when it is over, then Jews, instead of being doomed, will be held up as an example.

Anne Frank

#52. Choose your allies carefully: it's highly unlikely that you'll ever be held morally, legally, or historically accountable for the actions of your enemies.

L. Neil Smith

#53. I want to be held and told my name. I want to be valued, in ways that I am not; I want to be more than valuable. I repeat my former name; remind myself of what I once could do, how others saw me. I want to steal something.

Margaret Atwood

#54. Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.

Elie Wiesel

#55. Mistakes were made long ago. It is someone else's fault. We can't be held responsible, but we are very sorry.

Kyle Minor

#56. The president has outlined a new strategy for success in Iraq, but in order for this effort to be successful the Iraqi government must be held accountable ... If we fail in Iraq, or withdraw our troops prematurely, the terrorists will follow us home. Success is our only option.

John Boehner

#57. Avery chewed her bottom lip. I was going to have to talk to her about that habit because every time she did it, it got harder and harder for me not to kiss her. One of these days I was not going to be held responsible for whatever actions I was driven to.

Kelly Oram

#58. As a writing man, or secretary, I have always felt charged with the safekeeping of all unexpected items of worldly and unworldly enchantment, as though I might be held personally responsible if even a small one were to be lost.

E.B. White

#59. I'm not a public figure; I shouldn't have to be held to a certain standard of beauty.

Jenji Kohan

#60. Pakistan is rich in sporting talent, but the only thing needed is to have sincere and honest administrators who should be held accountable by the government. Pakistan should be recognised as a sporting nation and not as a terrorist country.

Jahangir Khan

#61. Even without the mushroom cloud
still I would have hated
Listen
I would have done the same things
even if there were no death
I will not be held like a drunkard
under the cold tap of facts
I refuse the universal alibi

Leonard Cohen

#62. Q: The Witness is reminded that she may be held in contempt.
A: The feeling is mutual.

Steven Brust

#63. Emancipation - what is meant by it? Simply that the slaves shall cease to be held as property and shall henceforth be held and treated as human beings. Simply, that we should take our feet from off their necks.

Elijah Parish Lovejoy

#64. Running my fingers into his thick hair, I wallow in the strength and heat surrounding me before he pulls away, giving me such a happy smile it makes my heart rattle inside my chest. There's nothing better in this whole world than to be held in someone's loving stare. A stare they reserve for you.

Poppet

#65. Keep everything young and soft, keep everything on the surface, even with the knowledge that the surface fades and can't be held together forever - take advantage before the expiration date appears in the nearing distance.

Bret Easton Ellis

#66. What if it was enough to just stand here in the arms of someone who ared about her, to let his simple affection steady her for a little while? it felt so good just to be held.

Lauren Kate

#67. The official independence celebration was going to be held over four or five days, and a group of journalists from all over the world was allowed to fly in, because Angola was closed otherwise.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

#68. It gave her a creeping sense of impending aloneness, like she was some orphaned animal raised by do-gooders, soon to be released into the wild.
She didn't want to be released into the wild. She wanted to be held dear.

Laini Taylor

#69. PROPERTY, n. Any material thing, having no particular value, that may be held by A against the cupidity of B. Whatever gratifies the passion for possession in one and disappoints it in all others. The object of man's brief rapacity and long indifference.

Ambrose Bierce

#70. When I played the Shins, I changed someone's life. When I play Belle and Sebastian in a pivotal scene in my next movie ... well, let's just say I made sure I that I can't be held legally responsible for all the deaths people will suffer out of shock upon hearing them. They're a terrific band.

Zach Braff

#71. An effective apology contains within it the answer to the question, "How am I to be held accountable?"

John Kador

#72. The key to understanding if something is truly precious is to ask if we can hold it, for things truly precious cannot be held.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#73. Giving up doesn't make you a quiter, a loser or a failure.
It makes you wise enough to stop holding on to what refuses to be held.
Hence i say, letting go hurts,
but holding on to what is no longer there
hurts even more.

Nomthandazo Tsembeni

#74. Each morning we must hold out the chalice of our being to receive, to carry, and give back. It must be held out empty - for the past must only be reflected in its polish, its shape, its capacity.

Dag Hammarskjold

#75. Yet there have been too many times in the past year when I've wondered if that might just be an excuse for not having to be held responsible when something goes terribly wrong.

Jodi Picoult

#76. To be held in his arms
I long for that day
The da that I get to see
more wonderful things

April Nichole

#77. The beauty of the written word is that it can be held close to the heart and read over and over again.

Florence Littauer

#78. I'm not somebody that just wants to hold up a white flag and say, 'Let's all just get along.' I think people that do horrible things should be held accountable.

Angelina Jolie

#79. But if I had to choose a single destination where I'd be held captive for the rest of my time in New York, I'd choose the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Tim Gunn

#80. Vice President Joe Biden said today that 'Syria must be held accountable.' Unfortunately, the Obama administration has never employed an accountant, so they have no idea how to do that.

Jay Leno

#81. People whose magic could affect others in an overt manner didn't need to bite, he imagined, nor would they allow themselves to be held captive

Terry Goodkind

#82. He'd escaped WICKED only to be held at gunpoint by an average everyday

James Dashner

#83. I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.

Thomas Jefferson

#84. The biggest corporation, like the humblest private citizen, must be held to strict compliance with the will of the people as expressed in the fundamental law.

Theodore Roosevelt

#85. Maybe I'm competitive. I just feel like I have this gift that I've been given. It's like, "Someone unwrap it! Here it is!" That drive can't be held down. I have a lot of ambition.

Katy Perry

#86. I had moved on to another life. I could not expect the old one to be held ajar for me forever.

Robin Hobb

#87. That's what a little victory in psychiatry looks like. You slip into the shadows, dodging the mind's defense mechanisms, glad enough to take a half-step toward the truth. Behind the next word or the next glance may lurk the demon you seek, all in flames, desperate to be held, but set to flee. (8)

Keith Ablow

#88. Love like the sun can't be held down or captured. Love has no weight nor depth, no height, no length, no matter. Love is like a spark of inspiration, the flittering touch of a butterfly's wing, a sudden, unexpected, ephemeral flash of lightning. Grab it when you can.

Chloe Thurlow

#89. Your task is to stand straight; not to be held straight.

Marcus Aurelius

#90. One of the terrible calamities of the wicked is that they are tempted above that which they are able to bear; but one of the most blessed promises to a saint is that he shall not be so tempted, but that he shall be guarded, and when the pressure would be too strong it shall be held back.

A.B. Simpson

#91. I loved the way he held me fiercely; every woman should know what it's like to be held by a man who would lay down his life for her.

Dannika Dark

#92. I think the next thing I publish will be for children, but I don't really want to be held to that because I also know what my next book for adults will be, and I really like that, too, so it depends. I've always had more than one thing going.

J.K. Rowling

#93. It's crazy how being held by someone for just a few minutes can forever change how it feels not to be held by him.

Colleen Hoover

#94. Girls are like phones. We love to be held, talked too but if you press the wrong button you'll be disconnected!

Barbara Faith

#95. It has always been a great wrong that these men and their families should be held in bondage.

Robert Dale Owen

#96. What can I say? I'm obsessed. And as we all know obsessed girls can't be held responsible for our actions.

Ann Brashares

#97. Is it not unsupportable to be held down to a canter when you long to gallop for miles?

Georgette Heyer

#98. You can't talk about leadership without talking about responsibility and accountability ... you can't separate the two. A leader must delegate responsibility and provide the freedom to make decisions, and then be held accountable for the results.

Buck Rodgers

#99. Historians are apt to judge war ministers less by the victories achieved under their direction than by the political results which flowed from them. Judged by that standard, I am not sure that I shall be held to have done very well.

Winston Churchill

#100. No man can be held throughout the day by what happens throughout the night.

Sally Stanford