Famous quotes containing the word held:
“Victory comes late
And is held low to freezing lips
Too rapt with frost
To take it”
—Emily Dickinson (18301886)
“[The] elderly and timid single gentleman in Paris ... never drove down the Champs Elysees without expecting an accident, and commonly witnessing one; or found himself in the neighborhood of an official without calculating the chances of a bomb. So long as the rates of progress held good, these bombs would double in force and number every ten years.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (18381918)
“Adolf Hitler was a Jeanne dArc, a saint. He was a martyr. Like many martyrs, he held extreme views.”
—Ezra Pound (18851972)
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