#holding

In a word, if any kind of slavery can be vindicated by the Holy Scriptures, we are already sure our making and holding the Negroes our slaves, as we do, cannot be vindicated by any thing we can find there, but is condemned by the whole of divine revelation. ↗

— Samuel Hopkins

#any #cannot #condemned #divine #find

Really the only thing holding a lot of records together is the personality of the singer, and the will to write all of these different things. ↗

— Elvis Costello

#different things #holding #lot #only #personality

I think the more you expose yourself as a celebrity, the less interesting you are to watch in your work, because if you're putting yourself out there all the time, you're not holding anything back. ↗

— John Cusack

#back #because #celebrity #expose #holding

This may be done by grafting, by confining the roots, withholding water, bending the branches, or in a hundred other ways which all proceed upon the same principle. ↗

— Robert Fortune

#branches #confining #done #hundred #may

As a conservative power, the United States has a vital interest in upholding and expanding the reign of law in international relations. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

#expanding #interest #international #international relations #law

Being on a book tour is like being on the seesaw when you're a little kid. The excitement is in having someone to play with, and in rising up in the air, but then you're at the mercy of those holding you down, and if it's your older brother, or Paul Wolfowitz, they leap up, so that you crash down and get hurt. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#being #book #book tour #brother #crash

Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression. ↗

— T. E. Lawrence

#against #aggression #assert #barren #chose

Certainly after the tragedy in Neil's life, we were holding out hope for his recovery. It wasn't too promising at the time and obviously you get to the point of thinking that that is it. ↗

— Alex Lifeson

#certainly #get #his #holding #hope

I wanted control over what was said and what was not said, rather than holding my head down in shame. ↗

— Rebecca Loos

#down #head #holding #i #over

I was working at the store on the Sony studios in Culver City. And I was literally holding a shirt when they came in and told me I'd got the part! It just shows dreams do come true. ↗

— Derek Luke

#city #come #dreams #got #holding