Quotes About Held

sure her attorneys would argue that you were negligent in your supervision of Sam and—" "Stop." Eric held up a

There are secrets that must be held close, and most of these have to do with the wounding of the human heart, for sorrow spoken aloud is sorrow lived through twice.

No matter where they are in the world, those who commit crimes against U.S. citizens will be held accountable for their actions, pursued by our investigators and prosecutors, and brought to justice.

When I creep into our bed, there is the joy and relief of a person entering a secret dimension. Here, I shall be useless. The world can go on without me. Here I shall be held by love.

have to stay in a hotel once you book in. I don't think you can leave at teatime and say that's enough. Maybe they didn't do it at all, maybe they only held hands and necked.

It may be that the best we can hope for when it comes to utopias is that they be held at arm's length and regarded as aesthetic constructions, in which various proportions are neatly worked out, contradictions eliminated, and outside intrusions minimized. They are fictions, artifacts of culture. And we should be wary if they ever become much more.

And I was entirely held by my own words, as if my words had become a liquid and I immersed in them, like a drowning man in a rushing river.

the rain that held the light that fell, the rain that fell, the light that held

By slow degrees, a feeling of disquiet seized me. I was miserable before I knew I was no longer happy, and bowed with responsibility when I did not yet fully understand I held it.

I'm concerned about the woman you're holding prisoner in there," Beckett said. "Knock three times if you're being held against your will." Phoebe gasped and answered, "I'm fine, too." "Good." Beckett said with a chuckle. "I was afraid I'd have to call the cops on my cop brother.

Trust me, though, the words were on their way, and when they arrived, Leisel would held them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out, like the rain.

Only in Washington would the Republican operatives get the entire press corps ginned up over the notion that I'm going to be home campaigning instead of going to a bunch of worthless parties at a convention that's only being held to do something we all know is going to happen anyway.

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.

Held motionless by wonder, she stood looking at him, taking this moment, not in the name of the present, but as a salute to their past.

Silverstein held insurance policies that stipulated a maximum reimbursement for each destructive "event.

As far as being the longest-reigning X Division champion, it's a pretty remarkable achievement, due to all the men who have held it over the years.

Republicans have called for a National African-American Museum. The plan is being held up by finding a location that isn't in their neighborhood.

Not... what opinions are held, but... how they are held: instead of being held dogmatically, [liberal] opinions are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment.

The essence of the Liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held: instead of being held dogmatically, they are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment.

The ladies' fans opened with cracks like pistol shots, and were held up to block the stranger from view.

You are forever held hostage once you care so much. The

As if to build a fence around the fatal emptiness inside her, she had to create a sunny person that she became. But if you peeled away the ornamental egos that she had built, there was only an abbys of nothingness and the intense thirst that came with it. Though she tried to forget it, the nothingness would visit her periodically - on a lonely rainy afternoon, or at dawn when she woke up from a nightmare. What she needed at such times was to be held by someone, anyone.

If we're not careful, this archetype of the dark, brooding, broken antihero gets held up on a pedestal for the wrong reasons.

This new one was held for a couple months, so I guess it was better, but when we go into thinking our next record tragedy, it traditionally will probably change the distribution again and it will get held up again.