| "Relationships--of all kinds--are like sand held in your hand. Held loosely, with an open hand, the sand remains where it is. The minute you close your hand and squeeze tightly to hold on, the sand trickles through your fingers. You may hold onto some of it, but most will be spilled. A relationship is like that. Held loosely, with respect and freedom for the other person, it is likely to remain intact. But hold too tightly, too possessively, and the relationship slips away and is lost." »Kaleel Jamison |
| "During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic Wall. On four beaches it held up the Allies for about an hour at Omaha it held up the U.S. for less than one day. The Atlantic Wall must therefore be regarded as one of the greatest blunders in military history." »Stephen Ambrose |
| "To grow mature is to separate more distinctly, to connect more closely." »Hugo Von Hofmannsthal |
| "To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation." »Francois de La Rochefoucauld |
| "When a man makes up his mind to become a rascal, he should examine himself closely and see if he isn't better constructed for a fool." »Josh Billings |
| "It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do." »Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molire |
| "Whatever happens it all happens as it should thou wilt find this true, if thou shouldst watch closely." »Marcus Aurelius Antoninus |
| "Whatever happens at all happens as it should thou wilt find this true, if thou shouldst watch closely." »Henry Adams |
| "Time--our youth--it never really goes, does it It is all held in our minds." »Helen Hoover Santmyer |
| "Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors." »Thomas Huxley |
| "Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love." »Albert Einstein |
| "The heart that is to be filled to the brim with holy joy must be held still." »George Seaton Bowes |
| "According to conviction, I am not simply what I am doing now. I am also what I have done, and my conventionally edited version of my past is made to seem almost more the real me than what I am at this moment. For what I am seems so fleeting and intangible, but what I was is fixed and final. It is the firm basis for predictions of what I will be in the future, and so it comes about that I am more closely identified with what no longer exists than with what actually is" »Alan B. Watts |
| "True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily." »Jennifer Aniston |
| "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." »Utterly Russell |
| "A critic is a bunch of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste." »Whitney Balliett |
| "Because I could not stop for Death -- He kindly stopped for me -- The carriage held but just ourselvesAnd immortality." »Emily Dickinson |
| "When I held you in my arms at your baptism, I wanted it to be a fresh start, for you to be more complete than we had ever been ourselves, but I wonder if we expected too much." »Richard Olton |
| "We do not regret the loss of our friends by reasons of their merit, but because of our needs and for the good opinion that we believed them to have held of us." »La Rochefoucauld |
| "Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates." »Gore Vidal |
| "I want my questions answered by an alert and experienced politician, prepared to be grilled and quoted-not my hand held by an old smoothie." »William Safire |
| "We must determine whether we really want freedom--whether we are willing to dare the perils of...rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been." »Virginia Hanson |
| "Sexually,we are all competing for the same seat on the bus and the thing that holds it together is the tightly held conceit that we are all sexual gods. How can I believe in my own uniqueness when there's a cat out there exactly the same as me" »Jeff Melvoin |
| "We are no other than a moving row Of Magic Shadow-shapes that come and go Round with the Sun-illumined Lantern held In Midnight by the Master of the Show." »Omar Khayym |
| "If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence." »Bertrand Russell |
| "The fact is that my native land is a prey to barbarism, that in it men's only God is their belly, that they live only for the present, and that the richer a man is the holier he is held to be." »Saint Jerome |
| "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible." »Bertrand Russell |
| "Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions... that laws were like cobwebs, --for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off." »Laertius Diogenes |
| "Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self-confidence and your self-doubt." »Kahlil Gibran |
| "Offensiveness is a necessary consequence of opinions strongly held and openly expressed, and free societies should treasure and protect it. An idea that offends no one is not worth entertaining." »Unknown |
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