Top 100 Held's Quotes

#1. Anna Held's birthdate and hometown are a dark mystery, thanks to her own mythmaking.

Eve Golden

Held's Quotes #1796773
#2. I don't think music can be held. I don't think artists can be put into boxes or places. It's all about creating and making the best music you can.

Trey Songz

Held's Quotes #2427
#3. Captain Phasma. Remember me?" He moved his weapon slightly. "Here's my blaster, ya still wanna inspect it?" Phasma held on to her dignity. "Yes, I remember you. FN-2187." Finn shook his head curtly. "Not anymore. My name is Finn. A real name for a real person. And I'm in charge now.

Alan Dean Foster

Held's Quotes #3196
#4. Responsible: (1) Liable to be held to account for discharging one's duty; (2) Able to make moral or rational decisions on one's own and therefore answerable for one's behavior; (3) Able to be trusted or depended upon; reliable.

Erika Andersen

Held's Quotes #3917
#5. MADELEINE HERON stared with unfocused eyes at the gleaming gray coffin that held the body of her husband.

S.K. Epperson

Held's Quotes #5777
#6. Peter was lost. More than lost, really. Spectacularly, hopelessly, "tell the search party not to get their hopes up" lost. If there was a contest for getting lost being held at that moment, Peter wouldn't win because he wouldn't be able to find it. That's how lost he was.

Mark Hill

Held's Quotes #6088
#7. I was up for Michael Corleone in 'The Godfather,' but, as I was only 10 at the time, I think Mr. Coppola made the right choice. The Julia Roberts role in 'Pretty Woman' held a bizarre allure for me. But, it's silly to look back with regret.

Eric Stoltz

Held's Quotes #8723
#8. Martin Luther put it well: "I have held many things in my hands, and have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess."84

Michael S. Horton

Held's Quotes #10495
#9. Rip Rig & Panic was a milestone for me, and I've always been really thankful that I did that when I was 16. It saved me for when I suddenly became really successful later on. So even when my head's been spinning like a banshee, my feet still feel held down to the ground.

Neneh Cherry

Held's Quotes #10784
#10. There was tremendous affection in Billy's eyes, or at least they held a tremendous offer of affection, a tremendous willingness to find whomever he was talking to bright and witty and better than most

Alice McDermott

Held's Quotes #11709
#11. She's held onto her sobriety better than she held into her husband.

Stephen King

Held's Quotes #11875
#12. The truth is, a man can choose to objectify a woman whether she's wearing a bikini or a burqa. We don't stop lust by covering up the female form; we stop lust by teaching men to treat women as human beings worthy of respect.

Rachel Held Evans

Held's Quotes #12821
#13. As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to reconnect with a long-held love.

Gina Greenlee

Held's Quotes #13139
#14. It's not that he lacked poetry. But his poetry was of the body, not the mind. He spoke it in the way he moved, the way he held a hammer, rowed a boat, built a fire. I, on the other hand, was like a brain in a box, a beating heart in a coal scuttle.

Meg Rosoff

Held's Quotes #13957
#15. I was only fifteen when I finished my high-school studies, always having held first rank in my class. The fatigue of growth and study compelled me to take almost a year's rest in the country. I then returned to my father in Warsaw, hoping to teach in the free schools.

Marie Curie

Held's Quotes #15135
#16. The sun of God's glory was made to shine at the center of the solar system of our soul. And when it does, all the planets of our life are held in their proper orbit.

John Piper

Held's Quotes #17733
#17. If I have to hold a note for a long time, I imagine it as moving and spinning, for the note has to have life. In a way, a singer actually refreshes a note with every beat that it's held.

Renee Fleming

Held's Quotes #20669
#18. Magnus held up a warning finger. "Don't overstep yourself, biscuit," he said, and moved past them, disappearing into the crowd around the portal.
"Biscuit?" said Simon.
"Believe it or not, he's called me that before," Clary said.

Cassandra Clare

Held's Quotes #20681
#19. I would like to see the lack of demonization for those of us who stand on sincerely held religious beliefs. It's overdue. That's where you see the demonization of people who stand on their beliefs.

Michele Bachmann

Held's Quotes #21624
#20. Did you ever notice they never take any fat hostages? You never see a guy coming out of Lebanon going: I was held hostage for seven months and I lost 175 pounds, I feel good and I look good and I learned self-discipline. That's the important thing.

Denis Leary

Held's Quotes #27548
#21. I don't know, maybe it's because I was raised Catholic. Confession has always held a great appeal for me.

Alison Bechdel

Held's Quotes #28674
#22. Whatever has made, or does make, or may make music, should be held sacred as the golden bridle-bit of the Shah of Persia's horse,and the golden hammer, with which his hoofs are shod.

Herman Melville

Held's Quotes #30154
#23. Feminism, unlike almost every other social movement, is not a struggle against a distinct oppressor - it's not the ruling class or the occupiers or the colonizers - it's against a deeply held set of beliefs and assumptions that we women, far too often, hold ourselves.

Kavita Ramdas

Held's Quotes #32086
#24. In order to make bread, every baker follows a recipe, even if it's only held in their head.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

Held's Quotes #34124
#25. Tack's eyes stayed locked on Shy's two beats then he said quietly. "Make her happy."
Shy held his gaze as, for the first time in fucking months, he began to breathe easy.
There it was.
Tack just gave it.
His blessing.

Kristen Ashley

Held's Quotes #34934
#26. I love Hugh Laurie, but I don't want to be a guy who goes to work every day for nine months of the year in a corner of Burbank. I really don't. I like doing a bit here and a bit there and strange things, and I think that's held me back.

Peter Capaldi

Held's Quotes #43143
#27. If I were an innocent individual, flown to a foreign country and held for several years and tortured, I'd become a terrorist, too. I'd go to war against the U.S.

Jesse Ventura

Held's Quotes #45594
#28. It is the middle and pure height and whole of summer and a summer night, the held breath, of a planet's year; high shored sleeps the crested tide: what day of the month I do not know, which day of the week I am not sure, far less what hour of the night.

James Agee

Held's Quotes #49472
#29. You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.

Rachel Griffiths

Held's Quotes #49907
#30. As Abdul and his family had already learned, the police station was not a place where victimhood was redressed and public safety held dear. It was a hectic bazaar, like many other public institutions in Mumbai, and investigating Kalu's death was not a profit-generating enterprise.

Katherine Boo

Held's Quotes #52689
#31. I am not doing this in front of everyone," Simon announced.
"It's not spin the bottle, Simon," said Clary. "It's just food. Not that you're food, Alec," she added when he glared. She held her hands up. "Never mind.

Cassandra Clare

Held's Quotes #54702
#32. He touched me. We kissed and we held hands sometimes. It was proper. Do you think I should have been with him in that way?" "Hell, no. He's probably not capable." "He's married now. They have children." "Must be Catholic." "What makes you say that?" "Virgin births.

Ellen O'Connell

Held's Quotes #58889
#33. So you dared to walk into the lion's den."
She smiled up into his intent dark eyes. "As it turned out, there was no danger."
"No?" His voice held gently mocking note. "Look where it's led. You're in my bedroom with your dress undone.

Lisa Kleypas

Held's Quotes #61038
#34. The cash held by US companies are hitting all time records. Companies are using some of this money to buy back their own stock at record rates. When a company is doing this it is saying to it's investors: We don't have any good ideas what to do with this, so here--maybe you do.

Geoff Colvin

Held's Quotes #65008
#35. There was a silent moment when everything held its breath, and then the sun rose.

S.E. Hinton

Held's Quotes #65858
#36. Sage: "Conner's held you down for so long, you've forgotten what it's like to breathe free air."
Imogen: "And you've given your life to his control forever. You'll never breathe free air again.

Jennifer A. Nielsen

Held's Quotes #67624
#37. There's no need for us to be held back by the past or how things have been so far. The important thing is what seeds we are sowing now for the future.

Daisaku Ikeda

Held's Quotes #67797
#38. Death Race was a very modern action movie and it used all of those modern action techniques with lots of hand-held camera, lots of punchy zooms, and lots of quick movements and quick cuts. In 3D, I didn't want to do that anymore.

Paul W. S. Anderson

Held's Quotes #69114
#39. To wish for your own happiness is sometimes coupled with another person's unhappiness. Since I couldn't pray for my own happiness, I prayed to the moon in the night sky for the happiness of the one whose warm hand I held.

Chica Umino

Held's Quotes #73508
#40. We held each other's hands and laughed with feigned embarrassment that gradually took hold and became real.

Miranda July

Held's Quotes #73793
#41. Sacredness and profanity and prayers and wishes: they're all held together by the broken limbs of this dead tree, raking the night sky with its blackened branches. We are so small, the two of us. The tree and sky are so large and grand. We could fail so easily, fall before we've begun to rise.

Elora Bishop

Held's Quotes #79545
#42. Connor:I let her go. I could have held on but I let her go.
The Monster:And that is the truth.
Connor:I didn't mean it, though! I didn't mean to let her go! And now it's for real! Now she's going to die and it's my fault!
The Monster:And that is not the truth at all.

Patrick Ness

Held's Quotes #81916
#43. I held him in my arms and looked into his eyes and knew nothing that beautiful could exist without the Lord's blessing.

Eve Langlais

Held's Quotes #84352
#44. We're getting job creation in healthcare and educational services. We've been getting that all along. It's demographically driven, it's funded by the government, and that's held up.

Mark Zandi

Held's Quotes #86179
#45. A lot of the listeners don't realize that the Daytona 24 Hours is the most difficult race in the world. It's 24 hours, a lot of darkness because it's held at the end of January, so you're talking about 13-14 hours of darkness.

Scott Pruett

Held's Quotes #88037
#46. You snitch!" It's 6:45p.m. and I am being held hostage by terrorist extremists with a list of demands that make Al-Qaeda look like preschoolers playing pirate.

Julia Kent

Held's Quotes #90149
#47. Love wants to rise, not to be held down by anything base ... He who loves flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back. Derive happiness from yourself, from a good day's work, from the clearing that it makes in the fog that surrounds us.

Henri Matisse

Held's Quotes #92778
#48. He felt sorry for me. He wanted a plain country woman and that's what he married, and then he held it against me the rest of my life like I was supposed to change and surprise him somehow.

Marsha Norman

Held's Quotes #95019
#49. All right," I said. "Let's show these Seattle assholes how we do things in Vegas. Jennifer?" She held up the detonator. I nodded. "Light 'em up!" 41. One click of the detonator, so fast her fingers blurred, and the alley erupted in a blast of crumpled metal and flame.

Craig Schaefer

Held's Quotes #98799
#50. That's the gap," I said . Then I held out my hand and reached across.

Ellie reached back, wrapping her slender fingers around mine. "So are you disappointed that I'm not the perfect girl you thought I was?"

"No. I like you much better now - bed-head and all.

Todd Mitchell

Held's Quotes #104345
#51. Stop thinking so much. Tell me, what do you want?" Logan held his breath as he waited for Tate's frank response.
"You. Everything else aside, I still want you.

Ella Frank

Held's Quotes #107545
#52. I would have saved them. But the lie tastes rotten on my tongue. Would anything have held William from me? Would anything have held my mother back. Anything? All bonds can be slipped, all thorns torn free. It's simply a matter of pain, and of what you're prepared to lose.

Mark Lawrence

Held's Quotes #107839
#53. As the father of eight children, I'm quite convinced that each individual arrives here with their own unique personality. We are intended here from an invisible held of infinite potentiality. That which has no form, has no boundaries - it's the I that's in the ever-changing body.

Wayne Dyer

Held's Quotes #108229
#54. It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will in a dull man.

John Osborne

Held's Quotes #113710
#55. For the first stretch of road Olivia's eyes were sealed shut, her breath held hostage in her lungs.
"You might want to open your eyes," Wesley called back knowingly, his muffled voice breaking through both of their helmets. "And don't forget to breathe.

Shawn Kirsten Maravel

Held's Quotes #114655
#56. Ryan held a strawberry milkshake in one hand, his father's ashes in the other--and hoped like hell he didn't get them mixed up.

Tina Vaughn

Held's Quotes #117265
#57. I find myself wanting to congratulate past-me for doing or saying whatever it was that caught Ansel's attention in the first place and-by some act of God or alcohol I still don't understand-held it. Sometimes, I think, past-me is a genius.

Christina Lauren

Held's Quotes #120346
#58. I held it over my heart. Mrs. Worth smiled. That's where a book should be carried.

Joan Bauer

Held's Quotes #120724
#59. The Arcade, and now Peabody's, combined to tell me that there was life in objects, in books. It was all about having eyes to see the true meaning of things. As Pike proved daily, books held a kind of magic, an apparent as well as a hidden value.

Sheridan Hay

Held's Quotes #121646
#60. She blinked at him, mouth open. "Do you really think it's wise to insult a woman who's holdin' a needle this far away? - she held her fingers an inch apart - "From your Grand Master of Ceremonies?

Julie Ann Walker

Held's Quotes #122914
#61. And, echoing Jerott, 'So why in hell have you come?' Philippa's gaze, bright and owlish and obstinate, held his to the end.

'To look after the baby,' she answered. And disconcertingly, after a second's blank pause, Francis Crawford flung back his damp head and laughed.

Dorothy Dunnett

Held's Quotes #126555
#62. I think if you've held onto a character for several years and then you're getting rid of that character, it's going to be traumatic.

Dominic Monaghan

Held's Quotes #128055
#63. We were still able to see the phone records of a potential terrorist cause, we held them, now you have to hope the phone company still has them, you have to argue with their chief counsel by the time you get access to it, and try to find out who they've been talking to before it's too late.

Barack Obama

Held's Quotes #132802
#64. And you, my Sassenach? What were you born for? To be lady of a manor, or to sleep in the fields like a gypsy? To be a healer, or a don's wife, or an outlaw's lady?"
"I was born for you," I said simply, and held out my arms to him.

Diana Gabaldon

Held's Quotes #133531
#65. The 1984 European Championships were held in France and that was something important. I felt on form then, even though I was practically always injured at all the World Cups. It's a great memory. But in any case, the past is past.

Michel Patini

Held's Quotes #134127
#66. Sometimes I shield myself from finding out what's really going on with people for fear I'll be held responsible. Because with information often comes responsibility; if we know, we might be required to do something

Kelly Minter

Held's Quotes #134902
#67. The great struggle of the Christian life is to take God's name for us, to believe we are beloved and to believe that is enough.

Rachel Held Evans

Held's Quotes #140008
#68. I have always unswervingly held, that God, in our civilizing world, manifests Himself not in the miracles of biblical age, but in progress. It is progress that leads humanity up the ladder towards the God-head. No Jacob's ladder this, no, but rather Civilization's Ladder, if you will.

David Mitchell

Held's Quotes #146560
#69. Certain documents, such as the FISA court order allowing collection of telephone records and Obama's presidential directive to prepare offensive cyber-operations, were among the US government's most closely held secrets. Deciphering the archive and the NSA's language

Glenn Greenwald

Held's Quotes #147141
#70. Power has always been held by those who manage to controls the origins of life by controlling woman's bodies.

Jenny Nordberg

Held's Quotes #147304
#71. Magnus's eyes went back to Alec. They were gold-green, as unreadable as the eyes of the cat he held on his lap. "Not my favorite topic, Smedley."
"Simon", said Simon. "If I'm going to die for you all, the least you could do is remember my name.

Cassandra Clare

Held's Quotes #150374
#72. Finally I see that it's never been me, just a blanket that keeps you warm. Easily tossed along
when something flashier or someone prettier comes along. Your heart I held so carefully, I see, this was all just a game ...

Coco J. Ginger

Held's Quotes #150434
#73. If you look over the course of a hundred years, I think the gradual erosion of the consensus that's held our country together is probably more serious than a few bearded terrorists who fly into buildings.

Pat Robertson

Held's Quotes #150627
#74. They reminded me that Christianity isn't meant to simply be believed; it's meant to be lived, shared, eaten, spoken, and enacted in the presence of other people. They reminded me that, try as I may, I can't be a Christian on my own. I need a community. I need the church.

Rachel Held Evans

Held's Quotes #152934
#75. I want the right to outbid anyone else who tries to hire you. No contracts without my counteroffer." Holden held out his hand, and Fred shook it.

James S.A. Corey

Held's Quotes #152990
#76. The boy held her tighter, murmured soft words to lull her to sleep.
"It's only a nightmare," he whispered. "The dreams will stop."
He didn't understand. The dreams were the only place it was safe to use her power now, and she longed for them.

Leigh Bardugo

Held's Quotes #154519
#77. Duke's warm pink lips brushed his gently at first and then more firmly. He held the kiss for a long, breathless moment before pulling back a fraction of an inch. "Who's a fag now?" His deep voice was low and intimate. "Do you give, roomie?

Evangeline Anderson

Held's Quotes #156460
#78. It's absolutely surprising to me how well 'The State' has held up as far as people liking it and having fond memories of it, considering it's a sketch show.

Ken Marino

Held's Quotes #159195
#79. The Supreme Court has held that code is speech. And it doesn't matter that it's done on a computer or done face to face or done in a newspaper, reporting the facts of the world is protected speech.

Jimmy Wales

Held's Quotes #160925
#80. It's been my experience that mankind - and I use that to encompass all the races - is seldom satisfied with what they have. Most people's striving is harmless, beneficial even. But there are those who strive for subjugation, having control over others' lives, lives held in the palm of their hand.

Lisa Shearin

Held's Quotes #162531
#81. And if I ever thought Ash held all the power in their relationship, I see it clearly now. Embry holds my husband's heart in his hands and he doesn't even know it. He's too busy looking at the details of Ash's faces to see the expression, too busy being in love to see how loved he is.

Sierra Simone

Held's Quotes #163148
#82. I could see nothing behind that child's eye. 40
I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one afternoon in a pool,
An old crab with barnacles on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.

T. S. Eliot

Held's Quotes #164478
#83. The only thing worse than a social networking junkie who breaks out in a cold sweat if she hasn't updated her page in the past ten seconds is the person (usually it's a guy) who proudly refuses to join Facebook. You know, that same d-bag who held out on getting a cell phone until, like, 2002.

Andrea Lavinthal

Held's Quotes #164736
#84. Doubt is the pinprick in the life raft." She stepped close and we hugged. I could feel her trembling ever so slightly. She wasn't bulletproof. I knew then that my shaky faith in myself was starting to dig a hole in hers, and Emma's confidence was what held everything together. It was the life raft.

Ransom Riggs

Held's Quotes #171431
#85. You're shirtless with the world's sweetest baby cuddled on those muscles. Put a shirt on, you beast, or I can't be held responsible for my actions.

Christina Lauren

Held's Quotes #176381
#86. No organization, whether it's police or physicians or whatever, wants to have its errors held up to the light of day, but it's wrong, as is coming out so well.

William P. Leahy

Held's Quotes #176391
#87. When you get to the fourth, fifth and sixth years of a show, it's really good to have held back, so that you have somewhere to go. That also applies to levels of violence, levels of humor, levels of production value.

Bruno Heller

Held's Quotes #178816
#88. When your body is your instrument, it needs maintenance and it needs to be held in a certain way. That's a universal thread, whether you're an athlete, a dancer, an actor or a singer. It's all about maintaining your body because that allows you to do what you do.

Josh Peck

Held's Quotes #179064
#89. I don't respect my husband because he is the man and I am the woman, and it's my "place" to submit to him. I respect Dan because he is a good person, and because he has made me a better person too.

Rachel Held Evans

Held's Quotes #184408
#90. [The Bytyqi Brothers were] American citizens and we have been seeking answers to why no one's been held accountable for these atrocities. [Family members] expect our government to do everything we can.

Ben Cardin

Held's Quotes #184940
#91. Don't," I whispered, curling my fingers tight around his. "Don't. It's over. Over for everybody. Just let it be over, Manny. Yeah?" He held my gaze as his hand squeezed mine hard before he said, "Yeah, Frankie." I gave him another smile. He gave me one and let me go.

Kristen Ashley

Held's Quotes #185494
#92. In the Narcisstic parent's eyes, they do no wrong nor do they feel they should be held accountable for the bad and wrong things that they have done.

Katherine Childress

Held's Quotes #192467
#93. We don't think a child of 13 should be held responsible as a man of 23. That's true for most people, but black males age 13 who have been raised on the streets and who have joined criminal gangs are as big, strong, tough, scary and culpable as any adult and should be treated as such.

Ron Paul

Held's Quotes #196407
#94. By then I'd figured out the gift of failure, which is that it breaks through all that held breath and isometric tension about needing to look good: it's the gift of feeling floppier.

Anne Lamott

Held's Quotes #196881
#95. Stories are not like the real world; they aren't held back by what we know is false or true. What's important is how a story makes you feel inside.

Tahir Shah

Held's Quotes #197189
#96. For the United States to be a global leader, we have to have a very tight relationship with Europe. And we've held that relationship since 1949 when we established the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO. NATO is the bond. It's a security bond.

Wesley Clark

Held's Quotes #203952
#97. My grandmother, grandfather, my mom - we've always been driven by laughter. It's what held us together. Thanksgivings, any kind of family get-together, we usually end up in tears.

Yelawolf

Held's Quotes #212475
#98. Because what I say from that podium has got to be accurate, and I'm the only one who's going to be held liable if it's not accurate.

Ari Fleischer

Held's Quotes #212703
#99. I saw you.
I held you.
I wanted you.
That's what I came back to tell you. I loved you before I met you, and I loved you more the moment I held you. And I never meant to leav you so soon.
I never would have left you.
Simon, Simon.
My rosebud boy.

Rainbow Rowell

Held's Quotes #213342
#100. I held onto Caeden's neck with one hand and used the other to keep my dress from flashing my fanny at any unsuspecting woodland creatures. The sight might shock them to death.

Micalea Smeltzer

Held's Quotes #217144

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