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A sentence should be read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end (Held Quotes)
His eyes were bright, and, indeed, he scarcely knew whether they held dreams or realities... and in five minutes she had filled the shell of the old dream with the flesh of life (Held Quotes)
She stood at the window, her arms spread wide, holding on to each side of the frame, it was as if she held a piece of the city (Held Quotes)
He knows that the only way he can accept losing her is if he can continue to hold her or be held by her. If they can somehow nurse each other out of this. Not with a wall (Held Quotes)
With one long breath, caught and held in his chest, he fought his sadness over his solitary life. Don’t cry, you idiot! Live or die, but don’t poison everything (Held Quotes)
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 (Held Quotes)
It’s the spirit here that counts. The time may be long, the vehicle may be strange or unexpected. But if the dream is held close to the heart, and imagination is applied to what there is close at hand, everything is still possible (Held Quotes)
My chest feels full of glitter and helium, the way it used to when I was little and riding my father’s shoulders at twilight, when I knew that if I held up my hands and spread my fingers like a net, I could catch the coming stars (Held Quotes)
Destiny itself is like a wonderful wide tapestry in which every thread is guided by an unspeakable tender hand, placed beside another thread and held and carried by a hundred others (Held Quotes)
When you have a strongly held belief, don’t you think it’s important to express that belief accurately? (Held Quotes)
I have been stabbed, shot, burned, bitten, beaten unconscious too many times to count, and even staked. None of those held a candle to the pain I felt at seeing his mouth on hers (Held Quotes)
You get what you give, but also what you’re willing to take. The night before, I’d offered up my hand. Now, if I held on, there was no telling what it was possible to recieve in return (Held Quotes)
Because that was what you did with family when you’d been worried about them, you grabbed them and held on to them and told them how much they’d pissed you off, and it was okay, because no matter how angry you got, they still belonged to you (Held Quotes)
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 (Held Quotes)
When his brain died, all of the memories held in his gray matter, along with all of the knowledge he had acquired, would simply evaporate in a flood of chemical reactions (Held Quotes)
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 (Held Quotes)
Even for those to whom life and death are equal jests. There are some things that are still held in respect (Held Quotes)
They didn’t understand that she held his heart, held it so utterly that there was nothing he wouldn’t do, no line he wouldn’t cross to keep her safe (Held Quotes)
Somehow, even in the worst of times, the tiniest fragments of good survive. It was the grip in which one held those fragments that counted (Held Quotes)
After the Great Depression and after public urging, a nationwide public competition was held to determine a design for a memorial that would honor President Thomas Jefferson’s bold vision for westward expansion for America (Held Quotes)
And, of course, in the Philippines there were so many thousands of Americans that were captured by the Japanese and held and who were rescued by Filipino Americans, or Filipinos I should say, and by U. S. troops near the close of the war (Held Quotes)
You held out your hand, and I took it without stopping to make sense of what I was doing. For the first time in almost a century, I felt hope (Held Quotes)
For an instant I think I saw. I saw the loneliness of man as a gigantic wave which had been frozen in front of me, held back by the invisible wall of a metaphor (Held Quotes)
One cannot expect positive results from an educational or political action program which fails to respect the particular view of the world held by the people. Such a program constitutes cultural invasion, good intentions notwithstanding (Held Quotes)
His face held a certain impassivity; you see it in all waiters and valets. They might want to jam a knife through your left eye socket, but you’d never know it from their expression. Working retail, I’ve acquired a similar look myself (Held Quotes)
He folded his fear into a perfect rose. He held it out in the palm of his hand. She took it from him and put it in her hair (Held Quotes)
You discarded most of the lies along the way but held on to the one that said life mattered (Held Quotes)
His steady gaze held hers. His blue eyes were very dark, uniquely so. She had known people before with blue eyes, but they had always been light blue. Will’s were the color of the sky just on the edge of night (Held Quotes)
With a shiver of foreboding he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material and social interests held together by ignorance on the one side and hypocrisy on the other (Held Quotes)
For now, I only wish to make a simple acknowledgement of the woman who held the power just before me. Of all of us who touched it, I feel she was the most worthy (Held Quotes)