The ethical debates are like stones in a stream. The water runs around them. You haven't seen any biological technologies held up for one week by any of these debates. Ray Kurzweil
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it. Bertolt Brecht
Through me the energy policy of the whole Common Market is being held up. Without opening old wounds, it pleases me no end. Tony Benn
I'm tired of ignorance held up as inspiration, where vicious anti-intellectualism is considered a positive trait, and where uninformed opinion is displayed as fact. Phil Plait
...I expected Dracula to come jumping out any second. If he did I'd have held up a cross, cause he's allergic to bullshit. Richard Pryor
He may swim boldly who is held up by the chin. French Proverb