#held

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. ↗

— Charles Alexander Eastman

#blood #character #clan #easy #family

They held it their duty to live but for their country. ↗

— William Godwin

#duty #held #live #their

The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#harmful #held #irrationally #may #more

It has always been a great wrong that these men and their families should be held in bondage. ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

#been #bondage #families #great #held

I just feel like I have this gift that I've been given. It's like, 'Someone unwrap it! Here it is!' That drive can't be held down. ↗

— Katy Perry

#down #drive #feel #gift #given

I think if you've held onto a character for several years and then you're getting rid of that character, it's going to be traumatic. ↗

— Dominic Monaghan

#getting #going #held #i #i think

To see him there lifeless and breathless was very emotional for me. But I held myself together because I knew he's very much alive in his spirit, and that was just a shell. But I kissed him on his forehead, and I hugged him, and I touched him and I said, 'Michael, I'll never leave you. You'll never leave me.' ↗

— Jermaine Jackson

#because #breathless #emotional #forehead #held

If the provisions of the constitution be not upheld when they pinch as well as when they comfort, they may as well be abandoned. ↗

— George Sutherland

#comfort #constitution #may #pinch #provisions

I don't want to be held down by genres so much. ↗

— Randy Jackson

#genres #held #i #much #want

The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me in favor of Atlanta University; so about the last of September I bade farewell to the friends and scenes of my boyhood and boarded a train for the South. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#atlanta #boyhood #capital #decided #farewell