Top 100 Don't Hold Quotes
#1. Are you jealous of the ocean's generosity?
Why would you refuse to give
this joy to anyone?
Fish don't hold the sacred liquid in cups!
They swim the huge fluid freedom.
Rumi
#2. My mind was blown by how much I felt I was like Peeta. We shot in the forest near Asheville, North Carolina-a lot of fight scenes, very physically demanding. Jennifer and I totally hit it off. We're both crazy people-we don't hold anything back.
Josh Hutcherson
#3. Don't show up late.
Don't try to slide out early.
Don't cheat your rep counts.
And definitely, don't hold back.
Leave it all in the gym!
Gunnar Peterson
#4. Dogs don't rationalize. They don't hold anything against a person. They don't see the outside of a human but the inside of a human.
Cesar Millan
#5. No one knows if he or she or anyone in his or her life will be here in the next five minutes. Don't hold back on expressing yourself. Tell that special person today how you feel, give a hug, cast a smile instead of a frown, and don't forget to tell those you love that you love them.
Suzane Northrop
#6. You are here to be fully alive. Your expression is needed. Don't hold back
Renae A. Sauter
#7. Sharks don't target human beings, and they certainly don't hold grudges.
Peter Benchley
#8. Don't hold back you life because of the choices someone else made.
Kimberly Lauren
#9. I feel that David took a risk with me. I have a sense that by starting off in the theatre and going off to do films you are seen to sell out in some way. I don't hold truck with that, but you can't stop people from feeling it.
Julia Ormond
#10. Unleash your life's potential! Don't hold back on the things you've always wanted to do. Go for it!
Denise Austin
#11. I don't hold with shamans, witch doctors, or psychiatrists. Shakespeare, Tolstoy, or even Dickens, understood more about the human condition than ever occurred to any of you. You overrated bunch of charlatans deal with the grammar of human problems, and the writers I've mentioned with the essence.
Mordecai Richler
#12. Criticism, even when you try to ignore it, can hurt. I have cried over many articles written about me, but I move on and I don't hold on to that .
Diana Ross
#13. I don't hold with the notion that only bad books make good movies.
Anthony Minghella
#14. They'll be black because that's the way they're seen. Barack Obama, Tiger Woods, Halle Berry, have all known that. Will that change? Don't hold your breath.
Andrew Hacker
#15. Don't hold me to anything in the book. I'm a waffler. I like wafflers. They said John Kerry was a waffler, but I admired him for that - showed he could change his mind.
Jonathan Ames
#16. When you don't hold your pipe with the proper poise, smoking is very hazardous for your image.
Bauvard
#17. I'm all for holding each other accountable, but it feels as if we're hurling toward a society of finger-pointers, because we don't hold ourselves accountable for anything.
LZ Granderson
#18. Don't hold onto negative feelings by justifying why you are right and someone else is wrong.
Deepak Chopra
#19. Show your children God's love by loving them and others as Christ loves you. Be quick to forgive, don't hold a grudge, look for what's best, and speak gently into areas of their lives that need growth.
Genny Monchamp
#21. Invest and save aggressively but enjoy life, live below your means but don't hold back on the ones you love. Smile and lend a hand to those in need. Prepare for the worst and pray for the best
Ronald A. Martin Jr.
#22. Don't hold on to the old when you're being led somewhere new. Come out of your comfort zone.
Joel Osteen
#23. I feel like men don't hold the door open as much.
Karen Gillan
#24. 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
#25. I just reached the point where plot-driven novels don't hold my interest because I don't care about the fate of characters anymore - whether Emily marries Tom or not, that kind of thing.
Billy Collins
#26. If you don't hold your team accountable then you will lose credibility and your team will be spoiled.
John Brady
#27. That's one thing about me, and I think that's what most of my fans enjoy about me, that I don't hold nothing back. I do exactly what I want to do, and say exactly what I want to say.
Lil' Wayne
#28. I write songs from the heart, and I don't hold back.
Laura Mvula
#30. I believe in children praying
well, women, too, but I rather think God expects men to be more self-reliant. I don't hold with a man everlastingly bothering the Almighty with his silly troubles.
Joseph Conrad
#31. Films don't hold the answers I'm looking for ... Would you not be so much more interested in finding out that Bigfoot existed than in watching a really good movie?
Megan Fox
#32. I'm very comfortable when I'm working; I don't hold back at all.
Leslie Mann
#33. Lutherans don't hold bingo games in the church basement. Lutherans are against fun in general, which is why for them, birth control has never been a big issue.
Garrison Keillor
#34. See the possibility that people and things can change at any time and don't hold on to judgements.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#35. We don't hold anything back. We go for broke, and if we have a good idea for a story line, we just use it because you never know and because the dynamics of the show are going to change.
Josh Schwartz
#36. ... everyone regrets something, but you can't change the past. You've got to let go and make new memories until the old ones fade enough that they don't hold any power over you.
Olivia Arran
#37. Standards are what you hold for yourself, too. If I don't hold those standards with friends, colleagues, and lovers, I can't hold them to their relationships.
Daphne Oz
#38. Two things I learned a long time ago, Cate: Don't hold a grudge longer than it takes to work your way through a pan of brownies all by yourself, and don't begrudge someone an apology if they deserve it.
Alyssa Goodnight
#39. Successful people see an opportunity and they GO for it. They play bigger and go deeper into the circles of success. They don't hold back.
Loral Langemeier
#40. Go deeper. More iterations. Don't hold back.
Robin Sloan
#41. Don't hold onto something if you know it's no longer there.
Unknown
#42. It's really hard to know what's a good idea when you're growing and these ideas don't hold still and neither do you.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#43. I don't hold onto anything, because it's a waste of energy to do so, really. There's nothing that I can do about the way people want to write about me. I just try and concentrate on my work and do that as well as I can.
PJ Harvey
#44. Don't hold on to religion and miss the joy of knowing Jesus.
James Robison
#45. I love silent cinema but don't hold it sacred. Like any branch of film there are some very boring films alongside the masterpieces.
Michel Hazanavicius
#46. Religion is an idea, and, as an idea, it should be eligible for criticism, discussion, and yes, mockery. The only reason so many believers demand special exceptions be made for religious ideas is because they know full well that their ideas don't hold up well under scrutiny.
Amanda Marcotte
#47. I believe in people getting what's coming to them but don't hold grudges either. We all hurt people, fail & hopefully grow from adversity. Basically, eat shit & thrive
Dane Cook
#48. I had always thought about running for high political office, and I was kind of waiting for the stars to line up. And, you know, they don't hold the door open for you. You kind of have to muscle your way in.
Matt Cartwright
#49. The art of storytelling is in development, not fact sheets. There are posts you have to hammer into the ground from the start just to get going, but if they don't hold up the house you build, you can change them or take them out.
Karen Traviss
#50. Don't hold back and save stuff for the next book. Put everything you have into the one you're writing, - Michael Connelly
Sue Ward Drake
#51. If you don't hold out on God, I can promise you this: God will not hold out on you. But it's all or nothing.
Mark Batterson
#52. There are a number of people without whom I could not have written this book, but I hope you don't hold that against them. They are all fine people, and they had no idea how it would turn out.
Dave Barry
#53. I always told myself I didn't do it because I don't hold with hitting women. I still don't. But when a person-man or woman-turns into a dog and begins to bite, someone has to shy it off.
Stephen King
#54. You have to know what you want. And if it seems to take you off the track, don't hold back, because perhaps that is instinctively where you want to be. And if you hold back and try to be always where you have been before, you will go dry.
Gertrude Stein
#55. There must not be any single person in the world whom you should allow to rent a portion of your heart. Don't hold grudge. Forgive and move on...
Assegid Habtewold
#56. He opened the box and took out the kitten. It stared at him with the normal mad amazement of kittens everywhere.
I DON'T HOLD WITH CRUELTY TO CATS, said Death, putting it gently on the floor.
Terry Pratchett
#57. Being salt and light demands two things: we practice purity in the midst of a fallen world and yet we live in proximity to this fallen world. If you don't hold up both truth in tension, you invariably becomes useless and separated from the world God loves.
David Kinnaman
#58. Don't hold yourselves cheap, seeing that the creator of all things and of you estimates your value so high, so dear, that he pours out for you every day the most precious blood of his only-begotten Son.
Saint Augustine
#59. Don't hold together what must fall apart. The familiar life crumbles so the new life can begin.
Bryant H. McGill
#60. Change courage into main characters, fear into antagonists, and peace and safety into supporting characters. Don't hold anything back.
B.A. Gabrielle
#61. Don't hold on to promises you are no longer meant to keep- Caleb
Josie Leigh
#62. Mistress Agatha Brown, she was Church of England, but she just done gone to the Catholics. And it seems they don't hold with places like 3½, not even when they're decently run.
Ian Fleming
#63. I don't hold a grudge. I cradle it. I coddle it. I feed it fine cuts of meat and send it to the best schools. I nurture my grudges, Rollins.
Leigh Bardugo
#64. You're the luckiest person in the whole world to have already figured out what you love. And you'll be, quite possibly, the stupidest person in the world - if you don't hold on to it.
Anne Eliot
#65. What's really cool about our family is that we don't hold grudges, and I think that is what's been the key to the success. We get into our little disagreements, and whether we're right or wrong, we'll go and apologize. That's just the way we are.
Selena
#67. I don't like it when people don't hold the door. I don't know, that really bugs me ... I guess I like manners.
Taylor Schilling
#68. The thing you do with a boy it is to show him all the to show. Don't hold nothing back.
Flannery O'Connor
#70. There's nothing like real forgiveness, a deep-down forgiveness
where you don't hold any grudges against people. I forgave for the things they
didn't know and for the things they didn't know to do.
Tyler Perry
#71. That sort doesn't like to admit she's been reduced to stealing food, thought the cook. Poor soul! It's only a few apples. Lord, if you're watching, those apples are freely given. You don't hold them against her soul. (The cook was in the habit of lecturing the Lord, whom she considered a colleague.)
T. Kingfisher
#72. I don't hold myself dictated to by what everyone is saying, by the tabloids or popular opinion. I don't like bourgeois values. I say you find your own way to live.
James Salter
#73. I don't hold any candle for drama versus comedy.
Jo Brand
#74. Writing a book is exactly like love. You don't hold back. You give it everything you have. If it doesn't work out, you're heartbroken, but you move forward and start again anyway. You have to.
You don't hold some of yourself in reserve. It's all or nothing. There are no guarantees.
Heather Sellers
#75. 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
#76. I don't hold it against you that you turned out Irish, either. I wasn't there to make Englishmen of you, and so it's Irish you are, by default.
Neal Stephenson
#77. There it is. It is useless to ask ourselves why it is we who are here. We are here. There is only us between the airfield and the Japs. If we don't hold, we will loose Guadalcanal.
Merritt A. Edson
#78. Do you really think anyone needs some kind of notarized statement saying
'Dear Saint Peter, here's another stiff, pass him through the gates, signed, Father McGonnigill.' ... 'PS: He once had a hot dog on a Friday, but don't hold that against him.'
P.N. Elrod
#79. Most people don't hold a job for 45 years. They pass on or want to retire. I don't want to retire. My real goal is to do 50 years on 'Sesame Street,' and I only got 4-and-a-half years to go.
Caroll Spinney
#80. I've tried to write songs for other people and it usually requires them singing it and then changing the phrasing. I can put a lot of words in a song, and one of the reasons is, I'm not that good of a singer, so I don't hold a lot of notes.
Craig Finn
#81. Don't hold back in your writing. Take risks. Go ahead and tackle that crazy idea that you think will never fly, because that may be the one that makes you stand out from the crowd. Keep pushing the envelope.
Carrie Vaughn
#82. If you want to inform yourselves as to the nature of hell, don't hold your hand in a candle flame, just ponder the meanest, most desolate place in your soul.
Marilynne Robinson
#83. But if you're smart you don't hold up your hand in class and ask to be called on.
Christopher Morley
#84. Personally I support 14,000 kids in Zambia - I feed and clothe them - but I don't hold press conferences about it. I don't do it so you'll think what a nice person I am; it's private.
Gene Simmons
#85. Many women hear the word "feminine" and feel like it's a noose around their neck. "Don't hold me to a mode of behavior because I'm a woman and you think this is how a woman should act," kind of thing.
Elizabeth Lesser
#86. Don't let go too soon, but don't hold on too long.
Mitch Albom
#87. I don't hold Travis anymore, of course- not to read to him, or for any other reason, either. I wish I'd known that the last time was going to be the last time.
Elizabeth Berg
#88. I don't hold any regrets whatsoever about my life besides hurting people I loved.
Sugar Ray Leonard
#89. A lot of modern amps and preamps sound great when you're jamming by yourself, but don't hold up in a band situation. The sound isn't dense enough, and the lows and highs tend to get soaked up by the bass and cymbals.
James Hetfield
#90. I have legendary massive breakfasts at hotels. I don't hold back. I'll get there at 7A.M. and I'll be the last out at 11 A.M., having gone up and down the buffet seven times.
Calvin Harris
#91. You know friends don't hold hands," I whispered, knowing that there was no way that I was letting go first.
"Huh," he grunted. "Me and Kier hold hands all the time
R.J. Prescott
#92. Don't hold against me that I don't own - that I don't own a single stock or bond. Don't hold it - I have no savings accounts.
Joe Biden
#93. Shiny happy people don't hold guns in their laps that way.
Stephen King
#94. The details are the life of it, I insist, say everything on your mind, don't hold back, don't analyze or anything as you go along, say it out.
Jack Kerouac
#95. Trying to justify a world we don't hold all the answers to is what bedevils the best of us. Sometimes it's better just to accept that things are as we see them.
Megan Chance
#96. Here below the surface one studies the depths of TO BE, as manifest in AM, IS, and ARE. And if you don't hold up your end of the conversation I may very well snap you in two.
Russell Hoban
#97. I don't hold that everybody has to love fashion. Some people like gardening.
Steven Cojocaru
#98. It doesn't bother me at all. Do I hold any hard feelings? Not at all, ... Life is too short to sit around and hold grudges. I don't hold any whatsoever.
Kobe Bryant
#99. There are going to be more moments in your life that you regret not doing than there will be moments you regret doing. So do them, and please, don't hold back.
Sophie Abbott
#100. Dogs don't hold back. They see something they want and go after it. No matter what obstacles get in the way, the sheer act of chasing becomes the reward in and of itself.
Gila Kurtz
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