Not Being Held Back Quotes

#1. 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

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

John Romero

#3. When she had first held Jacob in her arms and pressed her lips to his tender, fragile scalp, it had felt as though she were being brought back to life, like a wilting plant being watered.

Liane Moriarty

#4. On the whole, she reflected with a loopy clarity while pain clanged back and forth in her head and the guard held her upright, she liked being rescued. It was better than not being rescued. Definitely.

Stephen R. Donaldson

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

Burnell Taylor

#6. I don't think being black has held me back at all. Being black makes you strong.

Anita Baker

#7. 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

#8. Nessa held her arm up. She was staring at it, trying to gauge how big that was. "Dude, that's as big as my arm. That's like being f****d by a limb dude!" She wiggled her arm back and forth. "That's not normal.

Erin Jamison

#9. 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

#10. He held Saraid the rest of the way home, and in a way she held him right back, because sometimes and especially for a man, being able to be someone's big strong shoulder to cry on helps you not need to cry so very much yourself.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

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

Henri Matisse

#15. The problem was, I enjoyed Question Period too much and loved the challenge it provided. Far from being a dreaded burden, it had become an exciting part of my life; opposition members attacked me, I fought back, I won or lost or held them to draw, and the next day we did it all over again.

Jean Chretien

#16. Among the beliefs I held about the world was that being beautiful should not matter to a woman, because it was one of those things that would go away
your beauty would go away,and there wouldn't be anything you could do to bring it back.

Jamaica Kincaid

#17. I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being all the more killed.

Augustine Of Hippo

#18. 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

#19. I must say, in the case of "Room," both the book and the film, I don't think being a lesbian author held me back at all.

Emma Donoghue