#held

I had been, you know, held in the closet for two months and, you know, abused in all manner of ways. I was very good at doing what I was told. ↗

— Patty Hearst

#closet #doing #good #had #held

We must have systems of checks and balances to make sure that those people who are making critical decisions for our country are held accountable, and nowhere is that more important than in the area of national security. ↗

— Chris Van Hollen

#area #balances #checks #country #critical

Adam was placed in Paradise in perfect estate, and in the company of God's angels; God walked and did talk with him. He heard the voice, and beheld the presence of God. ↗

— John Jewel

#angels #beheld #company #did #estate

What standards are upheld by the scientific community affect the community internally, and also affect its relations with society at large, including Congress. ↗

— Serge Lang

#also #community #congress #including #internally

Some hypocrites and seeming mortified men, that held down their heads, were like the little images that they place in the very bowing of the vaults of churches, that look as if they held up the church, but are but puppets. ↗

— William Laud

#church #churches #down #heads #held

My cousin cleaned out a shotgun for me and let me carry it around the house, because he said, 'Anybody who knows anything about guns is going to know in a second if someone has held a gun before.' I didn't want to be that person. I wanted to be practiced. ↗

— Jennifer Lawrence

#anybody #anything #around #because #before

Some critics of my work took the view that a satirist should defer to the finer feelings of his readers and respect widely held beliefs. ↗

— David Low

#critics #defer #feelings #finer #held

Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference. ↗

— Emil Ludwig

#always #another #attracted #because #close

I have always held those political opinions which point to the universal brotherhood of man, no matter in what rank of life he may have taken his origin. ↗

— Alexander Mackenzie

#brotherhood #held #his #i #life

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

— Brian Molko

#bringing #held #i #into #people