#hold

Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered. ↗

— Archibald MacLeish

#censor #citadel #contrary #convinced #hold

As adults feign disinterest in science - children can grab hold of it to distinguish themselves. ↗

— Norman Macleod

#distinguish #feign #grab #hold #science

We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#civilized #genius #great #hold #most

The task which we have set ourselves is simply to show why and for what purpose we hold that standpoint during most of our lives, and why and for what purpose we are provisionally obliged to abandon it. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#during #hold #lives #most #obliged

We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties. ↗

— Anne Sullivan Macy

#difficulties #firm #hold #knowledge #lift

The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived. ↗

— James Madison

#charter #constitutional #derived #fountain #government

I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#become #combinations #grasp #had #hold

While it was occasionally done here or there, nobody else had a figurehead like Walt doing it. Jack Warner wasn't on TV. Walt was the boss, but he had a real public profile and he used it to his advantage. And he became a household face. ↗

— Leonard Maltin

#became #boss #doing #done #else

When the ball dropped in 1999, I was holding dough and champagne in my hands and holding my kids. ↗

— Method Man

#champagne #dough #dropped #hands #holding

An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome. ↗

— William Manchester

#awesome #behold #dress #edwardian #full