Held

Famous quotes containing the word held:

    “... he held it one of the prettiest attitudes of the feminine mind to adore a man’s pre- eminence without too precise a knowledge of what it consisted in.”
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    “Lacustrine man had never been assailed
    By such long-rolling opulent cataracts,
    Unless Racine or Bossuet held the like.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “Some think to avoid the influence of metaphysical errors, by paying no attention to metaphysics; but experience shows that these men beyond all others are held in an iron vice of metaphysical theory, because by theories that they have never called in question.”
    —Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)