To Be Held Quotes

#1. You are not to be looked upon as holding the true Catholic faith if you do not teach that the faith of Rome is to be held

Pope Leo XIII

#2. To walk inwardly with God, and not to be held by any outer affections, is the state of a spiritual man.

Thomas A Kempis

#3. The standing ovation threw me ... to be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something.

Michael Caine

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

Brian Molko

#5. Thomas stood there, sorting through his options. The irony wasn't lost on him. He'd escaped WICKED only to be held at gunpoint by an average everyday city worker.

James Dashner

#6. He had conceded in a panic - for it crushed Nilssen's spirit to be held in low esteem by other men. He could not bear to know that he was disliked, for to him there was no real difference between being disliked, and being dislikeable; every injury he sustained was an injury to his very selfhood.

Eleanor Catton

#7. I'm launching my own festival in South Wales. It's something I've wanted to do for a long time. It's going to be held at Margam Park, because I wanted the venue to be as close to my home as possible.

Katherine Jenkins

#8. There are men, who can be turned on by a stiff breeze, but I cannot stop the wind, and it is wrong for a woman to be held responsible for a man's problems.

Emily Dixon

#9. You can truly grieve for every officer who's been lost in the line of duty in this country, and still be troubled by cases of police overreach, those two ideas are not mutually exclusive. You can have great regard for law enforcement and still want them to be held to high standards.

Jon Stewart

#10. Man is to be held only by the slightest chains; with the idea that he can break them at pleasure, he submits to them in sport.

Maria Edgeworth

#11. I don't want to be held down by genres so much.

Randy Jackson

#12. Some people do need to be held to account because some of the conduct is so widely at odds with our values, but making an example out of a few people would be a disservice.

Thomas R. Pickering

#13. they'd learn what needed to be held close in life, and what wasn't worth worrying over.

Kristin Hannah

#14. Everything about the way he makes me feel is absolutely terrifying. The way my heart wants to be held by him is terrifying. The way my knees seem to forget how to hold me up is terrifying. The way my mouth wants to be claimed by his is terrifying.

Colleen Hoover

#15. What I argue is that if I'm going to be held accountable for my actions that I should be allowed to record ... my actions. Especially if somebody else is keeping a record of my actions.

Steve Mann

#16. Some nights I need to be held. Tonight I'm a listener. So nice to lie in rumpled sheets and listen. Cover me with words.

Don DeLillo

#17. Oh my God, my girlfriends are everything to me. They celebrate with you, they cry with you, they hold you when you need to be held. They laugh with you. They're mean with you! They're always there, and it's just a priceless thing to have.

Jennifer Lopez

#18. Strong Women Need To Be Held Strongly.

Tia Walker

#19. I'd waited an eternity for this. I'd have waited all over again if I had to. I was meant to kiss this boy, designed to be held by him.

Kiera Cass

#20. What women want: To be loved, to be listened to, to be desired, to be respected, to be needed, to be trusted, and sometimes, just to be held. What men want: Tickets to the World Series.

Dave Barry

#21. There is no greater egoism than that of learning when it is treated simply as a mark of personal distinction to be held and cherished for its own sake ... [K]knowledge is a possession held in trust for the furthering of the well-being of all

John Dewey

#22. God simply is," Bick said. "Humanity embraced It. They gave It color and gender, shape and form. They put words in Its mouth. They always have, and they still do, perhaps they always will. I always experience God as a 'He,' but God is too vast to be held prisoner by language of biology.

R.S. Belcher

#23. Women have to stop pretending the choices we make, particularly if we have a platform, don't affect others. We have to be held accountable.

Keli Goff

#24. Our government has to be held accountable for enforcing the law. Tamir Rice, the fact that they could exonerate that police person [who killed him], and Tamir's family was charged for the ambulance to take him [to the hospital]. It's inhumane.

Marian Wright Edelman

#25. Religious leaders need to be held accountable for their ideas.

Lawrence M. Krauss

#26. And the things that we fear are a weapon to be held against us.

Ian Rush

#27. Church files lawsuit over communion wafers: Oklahoma's Catholic Archbishop filed a lawsuit on Wednesday to halt the use of what he said were stolen communion wafers destined for a satanic black mass ceremony to be held next month in Oklahoma City.

Anonymous

#28. What a mother wants is to hold her babies when they're small and to be held by them once they've grown tall. It's empty arms a mother dreads.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#29. I think the NBA players have to be held accountable in a reasonable way, just like any other professionals.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#30. I was holding the door for several girls in front of you, and I waited for you to catch up. When you reached me, you looked pleased, and a little surprised. Unlike the others, you didn't expect the door to be held for you by some random guy. You smiled up at me and said, 'Thank you.

Tammara Webber

#31. Apparently, there's something hinky about the new iPhones. They're not hooked up right. There's a problem with the antenna. They don't like to be held - like my ex-wife.

David Letterman

#32. And I want to be held down. I don't know what to do with the horrifying freedom that can destroy me.

Clarice Lispector

#33. In the radiance and the silence, she ran on the vast expanse of hard, smooth sand, beside herself with joy. Ah, when you only have a holiday once in a while, what a happiness it is! Each golden minute had to be held and perfected before it was let go.

Dorothy Whipple

#34. 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.

Kristen Ashley

#35. If I could have put what I was feeling into words, the words would have been an infant's wail: I don't want to be alone. I want someone to want me. I'm lonely. I'm scared. I need to be loved, to be touched, to be held.

Olivia Laing

#36. We evolved. We have only to look at the pouting face of a young chimpanzee to laugh at its reflections of ourselves. We know that more then 98 percent of our genes are shared with the chimpanzee, but we feel the kinship directly when the furry baby puts up its arms to be held.

Alison Jolly

#37. Maybe the desire that burns behind this question is the desire to be real. And which is more real - a clod of dirt unnoticed at your feet, or a hero in a legend?
And maybe behind the desire to be real is simply wanting to be known.
To be held.

Benjamin Rosenbaum

#38. If I'm going to be held captive by social media, I'm going to use it against itself.

Michelle Shocked

#39. I'm only afraid of dying if I'm to be held accountable for what I did while living. If there's no God or reckoning, I'm like, whew!

Dana Gould

#40. If men wish to be held in esteem, they must associate with those only who are estimable.

Jean De La Bruyere

#41. If he was going to be held hostage to this unwanted compulsion, then she was damn well coming along for the ride.

Nalini Singh

#42. If thou desire to be held wise, be so wise as to hold thy tongue.

Francis Quarles

#43. 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

#44. 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

#45. 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

#46. 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

#47. 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

#48. 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

#49. 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

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

Thomas Malthus

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

Max Lucado

#52. 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

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

Najib Razak

#54. 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

#55. 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

#56. 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

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

James Dashner

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

Robin Hobb

#59. 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

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

Marcus Aurelius

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

Georgette Heyer

#62. Let every student of nature take this as a rule,
that whatever his mind seizes and dwells upon with peculiar satisfaction is to be held in suspicion.

Francis Bacon

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

Barbara Faith

#64. 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

#65. 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

#66. 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

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

April Nichole

#68. 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

#69. 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

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

John Kador

#71. 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

#72. 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

#73. 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

#74. 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

#75. Crucifiers of Christ ought to be held in continual subjection.

Pope Innocent III

#76. To wage war, we need a commander in chief who has made tough calls in tough times and stood up to be held accountable over and over, not first-term senators who've never made an executive decision in their life.

Carly Fiorina

#77. If you wish to be held in esteem, you must ssociate only with those who estimable.

Jean De La Bruyere

#78. I am convinced that when we bring our griefs and sorrows within the story of God's own grief and sorrow, and allow them to be held there, God is able to bring healing to us ans new possibilities to our lives. That is, of course, what Good Friday and Easter are all about

N. T. Wright

#79. Fanfiction belongs online, books are published to be held.

Sky Diamond

#80. And they've got to be held accountable; our broadcasting system has to be made accountable; and unless it is, it's going to be very hard to change anything else for the better in this country.

Robert McChesney

#81. We are each of us born into the arms of mortality, the Lord recognizing our need to be held.

Robert Breault

#82. But the fear was too much to be held now. It oozed and rolled over the Gate, it coated the land like mist.

Peternelle Van Arsdale

#83. Rather than justice for all, we are evolving into a system of justice for those who can afford it. We have banks that are not only too big to fail, but too big to be held accountable.

Joseph E. Stiglitz

#84. What the boy felt was something pure, something gentle, something that predates sex or sensual fulfillment. It was the simple desire to reach out and touch a loving body, to be held in loving arms. Tenderness is a deeper instinct than seduction, which is why it is so difficult to give up hope.

Michel Houellebecq

#85. There's no question that Stalin broke the agreements made at Yalta completely about elections that were supposed to be held immediately in Poland, and Eastern Europe was plunged into slavery as a consequence.

Mark Shields

#86. Obviously a candidate has to be held responsible for the words that come out of his mouth, regardless of where they came from.

Roger Stone

#87. It felt so good just to be held

Lauren Kate

#88. I learned to change my accent; in England, your accent identifies you very strongly with a class, and I did not want to be held back.

Sting

#89. At the request of the Catholic Church, a three-day sex orgy to be held near Rio de Janeiro was cancelled last Friday. So instead I spent the weekend cleaning my apartment.

Tina Fey

#90. An hour later, a nameless, cold-faced man returned with a tray of fresh pasta, warm bread, and a few bags of brand new comfort clothes: yoga pants, tees, a few sports bras, and ... pink thong underwear? Well, of course. Wouldn't want to be held prisoner and have panty lines.

Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

#91. Troy went into debt and bought his new equipment because he didn't want to be held back by demanding circumstances.

Wendell Berry

#92. She wanted his strong, capable hands on her blody and those soft lips locked with hers. She wanted to be held tight and kissed until she could forget-if only for a few precious minutes-that her life as she knew it had evaporated in a cloud of smoke and flame and violence.

Melissa Cutler

#93. The magnetic pull only got stronger. She wanted to be held. She wanted him to hold her.

L.J.Smith

#94. 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

#95. 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

#96. Love is a true unconditional space to me. To love someone or to be loved is to be seen, and I think, gosh, as humans, all we want is to be seen, to be heard, right? To be valued. To be respected. But mostly just to be held in a safe, unconditional space.

Bellamy Young

#97. Truth has no finality to it. It is not something to be held on to. Truth is discovered minute to minute or not at all.

Adyashanti

#98. 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

#99. 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

#100. Open your hands if you want to be held.

Rumi