Held Back Quotes

#1. There are examples of ex-presidents speaking out. Jimmy Carter has not held back on a variety of issues. Harry Truman didn't.

Robert Dallek

#2. The Ottoman Empire was in decline, held back from modernization by a conservative Muslim priesthood.

Ken Follett

#3. I like the horror community because they're subversive. They question things. If something is held back from them, especially if they've heard that its good, they seek it out.

Michael Dougherty

#4. There's no need for us to be held back by the past or how things have been so far. The important thing is what seeds we are sowing now for the future.

Daisaku Ikeda

#5. How absurd it would be if the further development of the menagerie itself would be held back by self-inflicted wounds!

Anonymous

#6. A lot of people feel trapped by circumstance, by the expectations of others or the perception that they need a lot of money. They would like to have a different direction in their lives, but they're held back by fear or desires that are incompatible with that freedom.

Roz Savage

#7. Sometimes the grief was nearby, waiting, just barely held back, and I could ignore it for a while. But at other times it was like a cup that was always full and kept spilling over.

Lydia Davis

#8. The Italian economy has been held back for decades.

Mario Monti

#9. How often have I held back my complaint: Why should the Lebanese homeland be incompatible with Palestine? Why should the Egyptian loaf be incompatible with Palestine? Why should the Syrian roof be incompatible with Palestine? Why should Palestine be incompatible with Palestine?

Mahmoud Darwish

#10. Her hair curled around her shoulders, long and loose, held back with glinting clips, in one those magical ways girls have of making their hair look like it is supposed to be up, but also sort of falling down.

Kami Garcia

#11. Mimi didn't care about secrecy. She led a proclaimed life, and once she got talking she held back nothing.

Saul Bellow

#12. When you get to the fourth, fifth and sixth years of a show, it's really good to have held back, so that you have somewhere to go. That also applies to levels of violence, levels of humor, levels of production value.

Bruno Heller

#13. Stories are not like the real world; they aren't held back by what we know is false or true. What's important is how a story makes you feel inside.

Tahir Shah

#14. They went and found somewhere, and had a sorting out, nothing held back. Sometimes nothing less than savage discharge can express, can explain, can release the hard, hard place we're in.

Gwyneth Jones

#15. Does the written word tame passions? Or subdue the forces of nature? Or does it find a harmony with the inhumanity of the universe? Or incubate a violence, held back but always ready to spring, to claw?

Italo Calvino

#16. I do struggle to identify an occasion when I was held back because I'm a woman ... You don't think about it at the time, but looking back at it, of course.

Nicola Sturgeon

#17. Troy went into debt and bought his new equipment because he didn't want to be held back by demanding circumstances.

Wendell Berry

#18. Don't let anyone hold you back.
Decide that you will not be held back by anyone for any reason. Life is a forward moving force!

Michelle Word Hollis

#19. What was the freedom to which the adult human being rose in the morning, if each act was held back or inspired by the overpowering ghost of a little child?

Delmore Schwartz

#20. I learned to change my accent; in England, your accent identifies you very strongly with a class, and I did not want to be held back.

Sting

#21. We are held back by too much caution. We are timid about venturing. We are not bold enough. And so we die before we reach middle age, although we will not be lowered into the ground until we pass three score and ten.

Og Mandino

#22. The president's grand experiment in trickle-down government has held back rather than sped economic recovery. He seems to sincerely believe we can build a middle class out of government jobs paid for with borrowed dollars.

Mitch Daniels

#23. Deceit, Deceive, Decide just what you believe ... I see faith in your eyes, Never you hear the discouraging lies. I hear faith in your cries ... Broken is the promise, Betrayal ... The healing hand held back by the deepened nail ... Follow the god that failed.

James Hetfield

#24. Grief held back from the lips wears at the heart; the drop that refused to join the river dried up in the dust.

Adrienne Rich

#25. I knew I was free; that I had always been free; held back only by my own weakness, lacking impulse and the imagination to break away from an existence that had become habitual for years.

Ruskin Bond

#26. I didn't learn how to read until I was at the end of fifth grade and 11 years old and held back.

Philip Schultz

#27. Robotics has been around forever, and it's been the next big thing forever, and it is so exciting and compelling that it's easy to get carried away. People almost always do, and that's one of the things that has held back the industry.

Colin Angle

#28. An infinite number of things in the universe are held back from you only by your altitude and attitude.

David Allen

#29. I'll not deny I am impressed by your mastery of six warrens, Quick Ben. In retrospect, you should have held back on at least half of what you command." The man made to rise.
"But, Bauchelain," the wizard replied, "I did.

Steven Erikson

#30. Be not held back by fear's insane insistence that sureness lies in doubt. I am not doubtful, but certain. The miracle is always there. I will see them in the light.

Helen Shucman

#31. The energy within you is stronger than ever for being held back, compressed, and said No to ...

Henri Matisse

#32. When Christians forget about hope and tenderness they become a cold Church, that loses its sense of direction and is held back by ideologies and worldly attitudes, whereas God's simplicity tells you: go forward, I am a Father who caresses you.

Pope Francis

#33. We cannot succeed when half of us are held back. We call upon our sisters around the world to be brave, to embrace the strength within themselves and realize their full potential.

Malala Yousafzai

#34. Not reforming the NHS would have been a much easier decision for me as secretary of state to have taken. We could have just protected the NHS from cuts, put in an extra £12.5bn and left it there. But sooner or later the cracks would have started to show. New treatments would have been held back.

Andrew Lansley

#35. I've given you everything," she insisted again and again in her last days. "Yes," I agreed. She had, it was true. She did. She did. She'd come at us with maximum maternal velocity. She hadn't held back a thing, not a single lick of her love.

Cheryl Strayed

#36. No one should be held back from realising their potential by fears that they will not be able to afford to go to university or that they will graduate with unmanageable levels of debt.

Gordon Brown

#37. There was no limit to what one man might do, if he gave all, and held back nothing.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#38. We were badly held back not just by the technology, but by the culture of journalism.

Ezra Klein

#39. No-one has held back. They have put some definition around the numbers and now we have to wait for the reality.

Joseph Stanislaw

#40. A lot of people say that India has been held back by its democracy. But let's remember that, despite being a poor country, India's democracy meant that its government never let millions of people starve.

Alex Tabarrok

#41. Living each day as if it were your last doesn't mean your last day of retirement on a remote island. It means to live fully, authentically and spontaneously with nothing being held back.

Jack Canfield

#42. The great liberation of imaginative writing is that you're not held back by the facts.

Gerald Vizenor

#43. If the ability to make use of experience and draw conclusions decided, we would have forgotten what war is a long time ago. But those whose goal is war have never been held back, nor will be, by experience or analogy.

Andrzej Sapkowski

#44. For me, language and how I use it are very important. I held back on doing a poetry book, walking the fine line between trying to be helpful and just putting more junk out there.

Sakyong Mipham

#45. There was a certain beauty in waiting. This is why he didn't immediately put his hands on her. Even though every fiber of his being cried out for him to touch her, he held back and contemplated this unexpected moment.
Grady Bergeron, my hero in Watch Me

Riley Murphy

#46. You can only be held back by your past if you use it to reject yourself in the present. Your

Robert Holden

#47. Look at the blue of the sky and tell me why you held back. Did you think there would one day be a bluer sky and a better hour?

Morrissey

#48. As you can see, I am immersing myself in color-I've held back from that until now; and I don't regret it.

Vincent Van Gogh

#49. The sciences are being held back by assumptions that have hardened into dogmas, maintained by powerful taboos. I believe that the sciences will be regenerated when they are set free.

Rupert Sheldrake

#50. Baby, I held back today to let you get over all you've been through. But don't let that mislead you. You wouldn't be here if I planned on protecting you from me.

Lisa Renee Jones

#51. Some people feel they're being oppressed or held back, even if they have everything they need or everything that a reasonable person could want. Some people always want more.

Rysa Walker

#52. Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment.

E. Stanley Jones

#53. At the same time, we held back. Because she was different. Different. We had no one to compare her to, no one to measure her against.

Jerry Spinelli

#54. So although the campaign for women's votes continued and the Bill was repeatedly brought back to Parliament, for nearly a generation most women held back from direct action and unladylike encroachment on the established power of men.

Neil MacGregor

#55. Painting or poetry is made as one makes love - a total embrace, prudence thrown to the winds, nothing held back.

Joan Miro

#56. It was one of those brief spells of complete happiness that come once in a rare while, an unlooked for gift of God, when the forces of darkness, of sorrow and temptation seem miraculously held back, a breathing space in the battle.

Penelope Wilcock

#57. The only things that haven't worked for me are when I've held back. There's no reason to sell an idea short. The only risk would be to not fulfill the dream.

Ron Johnson

#58. One of the terrible calamities of the wicked is that they are tempted above that which they are able to bear; but one of the most blessed promises to a saint is that he shall not be so tempted, but that he shall be guarded, and when the pressure would be too strong it shall be held back.

A.B. Simpson

#59. I must say this now about that first fire. It was magic. Out of dead tinder and grass and sticks came a live warm light. It cracked and snapped and smoked and filled the woods with brightness. It lighted the trees and made them warm and friendly. It stood tall and bright and held back the night.

Jean Craighead George

#60. As she continues to answer questions about her employment, all these words mean little more to her now than I AM SOPHISTICATED, I AM WORTHY, I AM SOPHISTICATED, I AM WORTHY. She attempts the posture of a politician's wife, shoulders held back, dignifIed yet modest.

Tania James

#61. On stage, generally speaking, the story is stopped or held back by songs, because that's the convention. Audiences enjoy the song and the singer, that's the point.

Stephen Sondheim

#62. I could be held back just by being needed. Please try not to need me. That's the worst bait of all to a lonely man.

John Steinbeck

#63. I'm creating the kind of games that I like right now. I'm not being held back by technology.

John Romero

#64. Suicide crossed my mind often, but I always held back.

E.L. James

#65. She still held back her tears, as if subjecting herself to some terrible endurance test.

Carsten Jensen

#66. I feel empathy for people who are trapped in a prison of self-consciousness in an uncomfortable way. We can be free, but we're so held back. So perhaps that's why I feel a duty to make my work. I feel liberated when I'm doing it, and I want other people to feel liberated through it.

Bat For Lashes

#67. If scientists can't communicate with the public, with policy makers, with one another, the future is going to be held back. We're not going to have the future that we could have.

Alan Alda

#68. My throat tightened, but I held back the tears and reminded myself that withdrawing from a woman is no different than kicking a drug; you feel shaky and you want it, but eventually the need passes, and you feel restored.

Keith Ablow

#69. No man can bare his heart quite naked; there always will be something held back, something false ostentatiously thrust forward.

Charles Baudelaire

#70. How she loved it when he sprinted right over the lines and reduced her boundaries to smithereens.
Chloe no longer had any fears of being controlled and Chase no longer held back to make sure he didn't push her too far. All that remained was the sweet ecstasy of trust.
And pure love.

Bella Andre

#71. The animate and inanimate creation all contribute to the true worship of God. All of creation must worship at whatever level of sentience they possess. Jesus said if men held back their praise, even the stones might "cry out" in worship.

Ed Buckner

#72. Your dreams change. Initially the belly-buttons help establish the dreamer's predicament - the situation you are trapped in or held back by.

Rodger Kamenetz

#73. With a hoarse moan, he swept her against him, kissing her wildly, passionately, his mouth promising and teasing, as if her kiss had broken the dam that had held back his passion.

Karen Hawkins

#74. my worst held-back secrets: everything has to do with loving and not loving. This night will pass. Then we have work to do.

Jalaluddin Rumi

#75. To pine for the days before public education became a practical reality is to pine for an America held back by mass ignorance and mass illiteracy.

Timothy Noah

#76. I have always felt a little held back by working with other people in recording.

Brian Chippendale

#77. One day I'll be appreciated for what I do instead being held back for what I don't do.

Burnell Taylor

#78. Women have been held back and limited throughout the centuries. Creation could not have been rendered, not even considered, let alone be brought into manifestation without woman. She is principal, a powerful energy. She is first.

Alice Coltrane

#79. about to knock again when the inside door is pulled open to reveal a sinewy woman dressed in what appears to be layers of old sweaters and an ankle-length denim skirt. Her long hair held back in an elastic that leaves the ends bunched and brittle as the head of a broom. Brown eyes wide and alive,

Andrew Pyper

#80. Bind up thy words that they run not riot, and grow wanton, and gather up sins for themselves in too much talking. Let them be rather confined, and held back within their own banks. An overflowing river quickly gathers mud.

Saint Ambrose

#81. We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.

Marianne Williamson

#82. I want to be challenged, I want to work, and I want to feel that I am not being held back, that there is something in front of me, something more inspiring than ... just eating breakfast, you know?

Sofia Vassilieva

#83. Wayne held back a smile, tucking it into his pocket for later use.

Brandon Sanderson

#84. Humans are different in private than in the presence of others. While the private persona merges into the social persona in varying degrees, the union is never complete. Something is always held back.

Brian Herbert

#85. Don't let your history hinder you from your destiny ... you are only held back by yourself! You aren't what they say you were, you are who God says you are!!

Paula White

#86. I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.

Rose Kennedy

#87. In this bed, out of it. Naked or not. No boundaries. All in. Nothin' held back." He pressed his hips between my legs and I drew in a sharp breath. "You're all mine, Cassidy, every fuckin' inch. And I'm all yours, just the same.

Kristen Ashley

#88. Isn't it strange how life won't flow, like a river, but moves in jumps, as if it were held back by locks that are opened now and then to let it jump forwards in a kind of flood?

Anita Desai

#89. I raise up my voice-not so I can shout but so that those without a voice can be heard ... we cannot succeed when half of us are held back.

Malala Yousafzai

#90. I mean, what if you don't get over him? What if you just learn how to get on without him? People who've been in love have that haunted look in their eyes. It's like a piece of them is unattainable, forever held back and protected at all cost.

H.M. Ward

#91. Abomination . . ." The word escaped him in a slow breath. "And more besides," I agreed. "Now forgive me." Father Gomst found his wits at last, but still he held back. "What do you want with me, Lucifer?" A fair question. "I want to win," I said. He

Mark Lawrence

#92. With 'Smoke Signals,' the character was so much like me growing up. I lost my parents, and I wish I'd had an opportunity to find out where they were. So I was reflecting on how I grew up, that feeling of abandonment. That whole film was a reality that I always held back and kept to myself.

Adam Beach

#93. 11 I will teach you wisdom's ways and lead you in straight paths. 12 When you walk, you won't be held back;

Anonymous

#94. Are you going to teach me about make-up sex?"
He shook his head. "I'm going to show you what it means to be mine, with nothing held back.

Kit Rocha

#95. For an instant I think I saw. I saw the loneliness of man as a gigantic wave which had been frozen in front of me, held back by the invisible wall of a metaphor.

Carlos Castaneda

#96. Tell it fast before you get scared and silence yourself. You'll never wish you'd held back a little more.

Catherynne M Valente

#97. He couldn't live in a world with her and not have her in his life. Nope. Not happening.
"You're mine," he growled against her swollen lips. The words came out guttural as he held back the urge to slam into her.

Katie Reus

#98. Maybe you held back for too long and then you had to explode. Maybe there was no middle ground let. Sometimes we need to get violent with out words because no one is listening otherwise.

Matthew Quick

#99. For too long nurses have been undervalued, restricted in what they could do, with too few career opportunities in clinical practice. For far too long, nurses have endured a pay system that has held them back - both professionally as well as financially.

John Hutton

#100. I'm not strong enough for this," he whispered in her ear - like he didn't want anyone to hear that coming out of his mouth. Ever. Running her hands up his powerful back, she held him just as hard. "But I am.

J.R. Ward