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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles

Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles

Quote by Confucius about religion, sincerity

Hold you there, neither a strange hand nor my own, ...

Hold you there, neither a strange hand nor my own, neither heavy nor light shall touch my bum.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about light, contentment

Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the...

Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this and you dissolve the unity of the Church.

SQuote by Saint Thomas Aquinas about faith, contentment

We cannot let terrorists hold this nation hostile or hold...

We cannot let terrorists hold this nation hostile or hold our allies hostile.

Quote by George W. Bush about nation

No matter how wrong you are, your mother will not hold it...

No matter how wrong you are, your mother will not hold it against you. She may remind you a number of times, but she will not hold it against you.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about mother, numbers, contentment, bad

You cannot hold everybody in your arms. You can hold in your arms only a man. If that man is the loved one, then you can say that you are holding the entire world in your arms.

Quote by Paul Louis Lampert about love, contentment, man, world

For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!

Quote by Edward Abbey about flowers, magic

Neophyte writers tend to believe that there is something magical about ideas and that if they can just get a hold of a good one, then their futures are ensured.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about writers, faith, good, good luck

So we can all hold up like good soldiers and harden...

So we can all hold up like good soldiers and harden ourselves in prison. But if you do that for too long, you lose yourself.

Quote by Jack Henry Abbott about prison, good, good luck, contentment

You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel.

Quote by Richard Bach about contentment, light

Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.

Quote by John Adams about charm, miracle, imagination

But I also hold the very strong view that republicans...

But I also hold the very strong view that republicans need to lead by example.

Quote by Gerry Adams about example, need

I look at marriage and I think marriage is phenomenal. I...

I look at marriage and I think marriage is phenomenal. I think it's great. I don't hold anything against marriage.

Quote by Kim Basinger about marriage

To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.

To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.

Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about trap, husband, art, magic

We can't allow the world's worst leaders to blackmail, ...

We can't allow the world's worst leaders to blackmail, threaten, hold freedom-loving nations hostage with the world's worst weapons.

Quote by George W. Bush about nation, world

But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about existence, hope, truth, nothing, face

For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of...

Quote by Albert Camus about opinion, crime, criminals, force, law, state, death, man

I say this as a Democrat, for whom the Republican domination of government threatens many values that I hold to be important to America's role as a light among nations. But there are no values that matter to me that will not be gravely endangered...

Quote by Orson Scott about nation, light, war

There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about humor, ideal

I like giving readers an opportunity to get a hold of me...

I like giving readers an opportunity to get a hold of me in that way and to read things I've written which might disappear otherwise.

Quote by Michael Chabon about chance, things

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