Top 100 Can't Hold Back Quotes
#1. No, I call. Come back.
I'm here, he says.
But I can't see. It's too bright.
You can't hold back the light, Gemma. I'm here. Trust me.
Libba Bray
#2. Don't you know that you're blowing my mind? What you do to me I can't describe. Baby, I can't hold back anymore. I just can't conceal it. You're the one I really adore.
Mariah Carey
#4. To me, the job of a playwright is to explore and bring to light our lives. You can't hold back; you have to give in to this. Sometimes, you say things people don't want to hear.
Ted Lange
#5. Whenever I start dating someone new, I just can't hold back. No matter how often my girlfriends warn me,'Take it slow, let him win you over, don't give it away so quickly,'I just can't resist-I have to cook for him...
Giulia Melucci
#6. I keep waiting for that movie moment when Reed runs out of the house, screaming for me to come back.
But it never happens.
There's no rain-filled reunion and the only moisture are the tears I can't hold back any longer.
Erin Watt
#7. I like when you can't hold back. It's how I always felt with you.
Christina Lauren
#8. You can't hold back. You can't think of the subtleties of playing. You just have to get out and really bare it all, and hopefully you don't fall off the plank. And if you do, hey, pick yourself up, dust yourself down, and start all over again.
Malcolm McDowell
#9. I can't hold back from wanting you right now, Ava."
"Don't!" I commanded.
Nicole Gulla
#10. I certainly wish Gov. Palin no harm. I'd just like her to explain to me how she can hold such outrageous views ... and then go back to Alaska.
Sandra Bernhard
#11. You just can't let the outside world affect your game.You can't hold anything back. You can't play a different game.
Carson Palmer
#12. These things will change, can you feel it now? These walls that they put up to hold us back will fall down. This revolution, the time will come for us to finally win. And we'll sing hallelujah!
Taylor Swift
#13. I'll come back as soon as I can with as much as I can. In the meantime, you've got to hold!
Douglas MacArthur
#14. I can give you the King's English and then I can take it to the street, but do both or do one and don't do one knowing only the street. That's going to hold you back because what comes out is going to impress people, and it will impress them negatively.
Angela Bassett
#15. As we left the kitchen, I asked, "Can I hold your sword today?"
Catcher glanced back over his shoulder and lifted a brow.
"The sword," I corrected. "The sword."
We'll see.
Chloe Neill
#16. The problem is that I am secretly in love with Hassan. I can't help myself. I hold your bony shoulder blades in my hands and think of his fleshy back (Lindsey).
John Green
#17. [While] disappointment and failure aren't identical, they often occur together, and both can hold us back from God's best for our lives.
Billy Graham
#18. As long as I have people's attention, I can't stop. You can't put the public on hold, because they might not be there when you get back. I have a pathological fear of stopping.
Tina Turner
#19. Eventually, we can get to a system where an electric company will be able to hold back some of the power so that maybe your air conditioner won't operate at its peak ...
Carol Browner
#20. I should probably be afraid. But instead a hysterical laugh bubbles inside me, because I just remembered something:
Maybe I can't hold a gun. But I have a knife in my back pocket.
Veronica Roth
#21. Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy ... fear makes you always, always hold something back.
Philip K. Dick
#22. Ben Says: Never say you can't. Thinking ... You can't will always hold you back from doing the things you can!
Timothy Pina
Bullying Ben
Timothy Pina
#23. I came in the door, I said it before
I never let the mic magnetize me no more.
But it's biting me, fighting me, inviting me to rhyme,
I can't hold it back ... I'm looking for the line.
Taking off my coat, clearing my throat,
My rhyme will be kicking until I hit my last note.
Rakim
#24. Jett smiled and kissed back. Goldie could feel Jett's heart pounding. "The world is mine, and I can hold it in my arms.
Clancy Nacht
#25. Now that it's over, I just wanna hold her
I'd give up all the world to see
That little piece of heaven looking back at me.
Now that it's over, I just wanna hold her.
I've gotta live with the choices I've made
And I can't live with myself today.
Skillet
#26. You know when something feels so good but you're afraid to feel good about it? So you kinda hold back? Everyone says, Congratulations, you must be so happy. And you say something stupid like, I'm just doing what little I can with what little I have.
Vin Diesel
#27. Do not let your past hold you back from what you think you can achieve in the future.
Idowu Koyenikan
#28. If they played more blues, people would just get it - they try to hold it back but just about can't hold it back now because the blues is really going.
John Lee Hooker
#29. Love flies, runs, and rejoices; it is free and nothing can hold it back.
Thomas A Kempis
#30. If our minds can hold us back, then they can push us forwards too.
Sally Brampton
#31. A sigh can hold back a tear, but not forever.
Stuart Ayris
#32. Just don't give up on us. Please, don't give up. I'm a shell without you, Alayna. I can barely breathe when you aren't near me, when I'm not touching you. Right now, it's all I can do to hold myself back from taking you in my arms.
Laurelin Paige
#33. People will try to label you not good enough, too slow, too old, too many mistakes. You can't stop negative comments or prevent negative labels, but you can choose to not let them hold you back.
Joel Osteen
#34. When a snore loud enough to do a man proud fills the room, I can't hold my laughter back. It's the comic relief I desperately need. She does it again, and I marvel that such a tiny thing can make such a loud noise. Dear God, this woman may need sinus surgery along with everything else.
Sydney Landon
#35. That's all anybody can do right now. Live. Hold out. Survive. I don't know whether good times are coming back again. But I know that won't matter if we don't survive these times.
Octavia E. Butler
#36. All the tears in the world can't bring back the dead or wash away your fears and grief. I want you to put up your chin and tell yourself you are strong. And if you begin to weaken, hold on to me. That's what I am here for.
Cynthia Wright
#37. There's only one time in your life when you can burn all the way down and walk away stronger. Waste your youth. That's what it's for. Don't hold back. Love until it hurts. The fire will fade. You're going to die.
Josh Wagner
#38. Bards write them because they can't hold them back. Sadness has got to flow out or it gets stuck and turns bitter." Tyne
Jonathan Renshaw
#39. Conquering fear didn't mean not being afraid, it meant being afraid of something and doing it anyway. It meant saying no to fear-no you can't rule me, no you can't hold me back, no you can't keep me from the things I want the most.
Laura Kaye
#40. I'm sorry he did that to you, but you can't let him hold you back from someone who cares for you.
Amy Clipston
#41. I read somewhere that the real reason most people can't get
over an ex is that they don't want to. Deep down they hold on to
the hope that they'll get back together, and that hope prevents
them from moving on.
Serena Grey
#42. For God to mend your broken heart you must give him ALL the pieces. You can't hold any back.
Rick Warren
#43. One day that is what will happen, West. And it will be incredibly hard. But what you can do now is make the most out of the time you have left. Talk to him even if he can't talk back. Hold his hand. Tell him everything you want him to know. So when he's gone you don't have regrets.
Abbi Glines
#44. Life is full of what-ifs. You can't let it hold you back. If you do, you're not really living at all . . . just kind of going through the motions with no meaning.
Bethany Hamilton
#45. I will gain your trust. I will earn it. I know you can't give it now but I will have it. I will have everything. You won't hold anything back from me. Ever. Do you understand?
Master of Passion
Club Threshold
Book One
Nikki Faye
#46. When you're doing a show on stage, and they show you a red light, that means you have 5 minutes left. At some clubs, they hold a candle up in the back. That's the worst method. You're up here, and then you see a floating candle. "Oh, no! This place is haunted!" I can't be funny when I'm frightened.
Mitch Hedberg
#47. Back there I could fly a gunship, I could drive a tank, I was in charge of million dollar equipment, back here I can't even hold a job PARKING CARS!
Sylvester Stallone
#48. I have seen what a handful of girls can do. They can hold back an army if necessary, so please don't tell me it isn't possible.
Libba Bray
#49. There's no reason to hold yourself back and say you can't do something in life unless you go for it and try to do it.
Russell Westbrook
#50. Don't allow circumstance to hold you back- even negative ones. You don't have to let your circumstances define you. You can define yourself, and the best way to find yourself is through education.
Mary Hatwood Futrell
#51. I have too much drive and determination to let anything falter me. Because I know that life's short and there's so much that I wanna do, and I can't do anything that might hold me back or get stuck in.
Jana Kramer
#52. I'm Latin, for crying out loud - I can't hold anything back!
Odette Annable
#53. If you love somebody; You better let it out; Don't hold it back; While you're trying to figure it out; Cause the only real pain a heart can ever know; Is the sorrow of regret; When you don't let your feelings show. So, did you say it, Did you mean it?
Jewel
#54. You get into your teens, now they can't hold you back. You jump to the next number, or even a few ahead.
George Carlin
#55. Because a kiss should be born from love, and want, and need. A kiss should be beautiful, something a girl can hold on to for the rest of her life, to pull out in her memory whenever she wants butterflies to come back.
Heather Lyons
#56. Can I have my ear back?" He asked irritably.
She blinked.
"Mother, can you tell this creature here to loosen her hold?
Anya Wylde
#57. The liquidation of colonialism is a trend of the times which no force can hold back.
Kim Jong Il
#58. I hold her hair in one hand and massage the back of her neck with my other while she performs what can only be described as an oral pole dance on my cock.
Georgia Cates
#59. It was the night things changed, can you see it now? These walls that they put up to hold us back fell down It's a revolution, throw your hands up, 'cause we never gave in
Taylor Swift
#60. Our beliefs can move us forward in life, or they can hold us back.
Oprah Winfrey
#61. Bess and I had a talk. January 1919. Everything flowed from that talk, that moment. Everything. Look back on your life and see if you can pinpoint the moment when everything changed. If you can't? That means you haven't had your momemt yet, and you better hold on to your ass, it's coming.
J.R. Moehringer
#62. I clap so that I can hold on to this feeling. I clap because I know what will happen when I stop. It's the same thing that happens when I turn off a really good movie - one that I've lost myself to - which is that I'll be thrown back to my own reality and something hollow will settle in my chest.
Gayle Forman
#63. Give as much you can possibly give, even if, or when, you do not receive. For the more you give, the more the heart gets 'bigger' and 'stronger'. So, never for one moment you hold back from giving, until the heart has nothing left to give again.
Ufuoma Apoki
#64. You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
Franz Kafka
#65. It isn't good to hold on too hard to the past. You can't spend your whole life looking back. Not even when you can't see what lies ahead. All you can do is keep on keeping on, and try to believe that tomorrow will be what it should be - even if it isn't what you expected.
Jim Butcher
#66. All I'm saying is that, unless you're immortal, nothing can really belong to you. The best you can hope for is to hold something for a while, but in the end you've got to give it back.
Neal Shusterman
#67. You almost threw it back!' she repeated, and her voice filled with mock horror.
'You foolish boy! Are you always so careless with items of value?'
'No,' he said, abruptly sober. 'I know what matters. And I never throw those things away. I hold on to them as long as I can.
Sharon Shinn
#68. We are stronger for the people who leave us, you know? Being able to live without them just shows how much better we are. No one can hold us back but ourselves, and I, for one, am proud of the person I am.
Toni Aleo
#69. When you deal with a comedian who has a specific act, you can't hold 'em back. You got to work with 'em, dude. What you think, I'm just gonna do what's on the page, say 'yes sir, no sir'? I'm creatively beyond that.
Pauly Shore
#70. I always hated...all sad songs. I thought they made happy people miserable. Now I think I understand them better. Bards write them because they can't hold them back. Sadness has got to flow out or it gets stuck and turns bitter.
Jonathan Renshaw
#71. There are no guarantees with love,' her father said, reading her mind. 'You can't hold some of it back, like a deposit, so you can get your money back if something goes wrong. You have to give yourself wholeheartedly, whatever the cost.
Christine Stovell
#72. Now, you've been dealt some tough blows along the way, but those trials don't define you. You can't let them hold you back from getting out there and living.
Melissa Brayden
#73. Many of us hold ourselves back from imagining a desired outcome unless someone can show us how to get there. Unfortunately, that's backward in terms of how our minds work to generate and recognize solutions and methods.
David Allen
#74. These haters can't hold me back
Rick Ross
#75. It's terribly important that you can criticise people's ideas without criticising them, and if they burst into tears, it means that you tend to hold back from getting at the absolute truth.
Tim Hunt
#76. The only person who can make you miserable is yourself, if you hold back because
you're too afraid of failure to take a chance.
Shana Norris
#77. You can try and hold me back. Build your damn walls, pack sandbags along the edges and yell at the clouds and the rain and the sky to stop.
But i will not relent. I will reach you. Because i am the sea. And i will continue to love you no matter what.
Pleasefindthis
#78. Pray don't hold back," Robert said politely. "You can tell me what you really think of my valet." Stewart broke in to a reluctant grin."Sorry fer bein' so forward, sir, but that valet o' yers is nothin' but a Frenchified piece o' lace.
Karen Hawkins
#79. Against ignorance there is no front line. Against viciousness no border can hold. It breeds as readily behind your back as elsewhere.' 'What
Steven Erikson
#80. We can each define ambition and progress for ourselves. The goal is to work toward a world where expectations are not set by the stereotypes that hold us back, but by our personal passion, talents and interests.
Sheryl Sandberg
#81. The grave casts long shadows, Iron Lord," Mirri said. "Long and dark, and in the end no light can hold them back.
George R R Martin
#82. The future is a cold mistress. You can give all your life looking to her and trying to catch hold of her but she'll always dance away from your fingertips and laugh back at you from the distance. Them that say they know are liars and thieves.
Donal Ryan
#83. When God puts us in a holy holding pattern, it can feel like forever, but God doesn't hold us back to make us suffer. He does it to help us trust Him. He sees what lies ahead and knows what we need to be ready for it.
Lee W. Merrill
#84. What I do as a director is really create a safe environment that everyone can feel very comfortable in and experiment within so that they don't hold back anything. You never ever want someone to go, 'Oh I shouldn't have done that.' There isn't anything you shouldn't try. If it's terrible, who cares?
Paul Feig
#85. We can't really live without being afraid of something. You just can't let that fear hold you back.
Riley Hart
#86. How often do we stand convinced of the truth of our early memories, forgetting that they are assessments made by a child? We can replace the narratives that hold us back by inventing wiser stories, free from childish fears, and, in doing so, disperse long-held psychological stumbling blocks.
Benjamin Zander
#88. If Joanie dies before me, I wonder if I'll ever be with another woman. I can't imagine going through all of the preliminary stuff - the talk, the chatter, the dinners. I'd have to take someone places, explain my history, make jokes, dole out compliments, hold back farts.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#89. You can hold back from the suffering of the world, you have permission to do so, and it is in accordance with your nature. But perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering that you could have avoided.
Franz Kafka
#90. Nothing can hold you back if your determination is strong enough.
Debasish Mridha
#91. The object isn't to be perfect. The goal isn't to hold back until you've created something beyond reproach. I believe the opposite is true. Our birthright is to fail and to fail often, but to fail in search of something bigger than we can imagine. To do anything else is to waste it all.
Seth Godin
#92. The idea that the family is this locus of support but can also hold you back and keep you down makes for good drama.
James Gray
#93. People can hold things back without outright lying, Kerry. People can care about each other without wanting something in return. No doubt, he had good reasons for not making a move.
Kelly Moran
#94. And in the evening
After the fire and the light
One thing is certain: Nothing can hold back the light
Time is relentless
And as the past disappears
We're on the verge of all things new
Billy Joel
#95. You take the pen, and the lines dance. You take the flute and the notes shimmer. You take the brush, and the colors sing. So all things have meaning and beauty in that space beyond time where you are. How, then, can I hold back anything from you?
Dag Hammarskjold
#96. For me, a record is valid when I actually hold the vinyl. Like, I've worked on the art for a while and I see the vinyl and I go "Ooh, it's an actual LP. How cool is that?" That's very sacred to me. You can't take that back, you know?
Ryan Adams
#97. If you have 8-foot ceilings, you'll want a low sofa, which gives the impression that the ceiling is taller than it is. In a room with a high ceiling, you want a high-back sofa to be a weighty presence that can hold up to the room.
David Easton
#98. Only our deep moral values and our strong social institutions can hold back that jungle and restrain the darker impulses of human nature.
Ronald Reagan
#99. 'I thought I could live my life without you,' she says, trying desperately to hold back her tears. 'I can't. I've tried and I can't do it.'
Mike Gayle
#100. While you can't hold on to everything forever, you're a fool if you sell back your college books at semester's end: have you learned nothing of this life?
Ander Monson
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