Quotes About Withholding

#1. The illusion of depth in a character is created simply by withholding information from an audience. A character will seem complex and intriguing only if we don't know the reasons why.

Eleanor Catton

#2. Withholding love is a form of self-sabotage, as what we withhold from others we are withholding from ourselves.

Marianne Williamson

#3. Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.

Robert Frost

#4. Withholding information that would get innocent people killed was the right thing to do, not a journalistic sin.

Eason Jordan

#5. Secrecy in science does not work. Withholding information does more damage to us than to our competitors.

Edward Teller

#6. The idea of withholding a massive secret is obviously quite exciting to some people. It is also the basis of much classic drama, of course, from Sophocles onwards.

Lynne Truss

#7. Toleration is not the opposite of intolerance, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding liberty of conscience, the other of granting it.

James Madison

#8. Withholding distorts reality.

Cheryl Strayed

#9. Give a beggar a dime and he'll bless you. Give him a dollar and he'll curse you for withholding the rest of your fortune. Poverty is a bag with a hole at the bottom.

Anzia Yezierska

#10. punishment was withholding food. Starvation was the way the regime preferred to eliminate its opponents. It

Barbara Demick

#11. But the paradox is here: when cultivated people do stay away from a certain portion of the population, when all social advantages are persistently withheld, it may be for years, the result itself is pointed to as a reason and is used as an argument for the continued withholding.

Jane Addams

#12. had always been like that - incapable of withholding the truth but incapable of cruelty. A rare kind of person. The best kind of friend.

Renee Ahdieh

#13. Did not pleasure depend on an architecture of perspective
on contrast and delay, withholding and loss? Did not true enjoyment rely in facing the future?

Gordon Dahlquist

#14. Jem's face showed brief indecision on the ethics of withholding his own dime, but his innate courtesy won and he shifted his dime to his pocket. I did likewise with no qualms.

Harper Lee

#15. There is a beauty that arises from withholding judgment and evading comparison, a grace in not demanding consensus.

David Romtvedt

#16. Jenny's absence seems to describe her better than her presence does; she is a looming vessel of her own withholding.

Emily Ruskovich

#17. Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.

Mary Manin Morrissey

#18. and withholding. Everything I get from them is either inconclusive or subject to reinterpretation. Nothing is as it appears.

Michael Brandman

#19. Lack of forgiveness gives others power over us. Withholding forgiveness simply allows another person to have control over our well-being.

Sue Patton Thoele

#20. Top-down leaders, by withholding power from those in the ranks, deprive them of the ability to use the expertise and information vested in them to respond directly and with speed to customer concerns.

Sally Helgesen

#21. when asking someone to make a judgment call in a volatile environment, consider withholding historical information so that he or she can focus on contextual information. More data isn't always better.

Anonymous

#22. The longer you remain silent, the longer you don't turn over documents, a presumption begins to build that you're withholding something. That's human nature. That may not be a legal presumption, but that's a common sense presumption.

Trey Gowdy

#23. So she did not replay, but played the strategist. She retained more power by withholding an answer.

E. Lockhart

#24. To take nature and natural play away from children may be tantamount to withholding oxygen.

Richard Louv

#25. Real power is achieved when the ruling class controls the material essentials of life, granting and withholding them from the masses as if they were privileges.

George Orwell

#26. Money has power. And so withholding money has power too, especially when a bunch of people do it together.

Shane Claiborne

#27. Ye marshes, how candid and simple and nothing-withholding and free, Ye publish yourselves to the sky and offer yourselves to the sea.

Sidney Lanier

#28. I better understood the little lies that liquor told, lifting spirits and drowning sorrows while withholding the whole truth--that, in the end, it is the spirit in peril of drowning. Sorrows have gills.

Charles M. Blow

#29. Angie gave me the glare -- the one that promised retribution, lameness, death, and worst of all, withholding of sexual favors, all with one look. With a look like that she could have made a good nun.

Giacomo Giammatteo

#30. Giving does not impoverish us nor does withholding enrich us.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#31. By withholding the knowledge of [the Scriptures] from children, we deprive ourselves of the best means of awakening moral sensibility in their minds.

Benjamin Rush

#32. Withholding a decision is a decision.

Orson Scott Card

#33. No one is longing to meet a desperate needy, angry, withholding, controlling person. If your beloved is out there they can't pick up your signals if you're dwelling in those spaces within yourself.

Marianne Williamson

#34. On the allegation of withholding temperature data, we find that CRU was not in a position to withhold access to such data or tamper with it.

Muir Russell

#35. Faith is a withholding of conclusion so that you allow what is to arise.

Adyashanti

#36. To err, as they say, is human. To forgive is divine. To err by withholding your forgiveness until it's too late is to become divinely fucked up.

Jonathan Tropper

#37. Nothing has changed in our relationship with East West. We have no relationship with East West. We've been withholding our labour for almost seven years now.

Andrew Eldritch

#38. communicating fully and openly, by not withholding or misleading. There is no doubt that our decision-making is better if we are able to draw on the collective knowledge and unvarnished opinions of the group. But as valuable as the information is

Ed Catmull

#39. We are never doing anyone any favors by withholding our gifts from the world. It's scary to be fierce, but you can't compromise that for fear of losing those around you.

Idina Menzel

#40. Christ delves far beyond the means of superficiality, not simply because of his immaculate love, but also because he considers the distinct cases of each individual rather than withholding a broadened perception by use of stereotypes.

Criss Jami

#41. I'm boggled by the idea of being an only child. I know nothing at all (I'm happy to say) about having had a cold and withholding mother, about being divorced. The more I've been writing novels, each novel I've written has become successively less grounded in anything approaching autobiography.

Anna Quindlen

#42. Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.

Eckhart Tolle

#43. To give your positive or negative attention to something is a way of giving energy. The most damaging form of behavior is withholding your attention.

Masaru Emoto

#44. With all the justifications I have had in place, telling the truth under certain circumstances was in my universe no different than telling a lie or withholding.

Mike Rinder

#45. Tonality itself - with its process of instilling expectations and subsequently withholding promised fulfillment until climax - is the principal musical means during the period from 1600 to 1900 for arousing and channeling desire.

Susan McClary

#46. And as she talked, the Count had to acknowledge once again the virtues of withholding judgment.

Amor Towles

#47. He was an amiable man who believed in amiable solutions, who forgave easily and couldn't understand that other people derived pleasure from withholding the very thing he always gave so freely.

Richard Russo

#48. Withholding the truth is different from lying

Amish Tripathi

#49. Power, today, comes from sharing information, not withholding it.

Keith Ferrazzi

#50. Not to employ prayer with my patients was the equivalent of deliberately withholding a potent drug or surgical procedure.

Larry Dossey

#51. Propaganda is persuading people to make up their minds while withholding some of the facts from them.

Harold Evans

#52. Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers.

Garry Disher

#53. And then it happens, the most dreaded response in the world, more terse than any word, more withholding than a "no," and strictly verboten for someone as in love with language and me as you claim to be.

You: "K

Caroline Kepnes

#54. Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship.

Bruce Coville

#55. Forever is as troublesome and as emotive a word can be, withholding infinite happiness, infinite hope, infinite grief and infinite desire.

Ashutosh Gupta

#56. What makes you think you are somehow above forgiving? What makes you think you are worthy of withholding your mercy when you have received so much?

Michelle Lynn Brown

#57. With young people, I always say, 'You're not doing anyone any favours by withholding your power.' As women, we do that a lot because we are afraid of being misunderstood or perceived as too strong. But the older I'm getting, the more I realise you have to let that go.

Idina Menzel

#58. What we don't have now we don't need now. Possibly His very withholding is in order that the boy may learn, at this crucial juncture in his life, to turn to God in prayer for a deeply felt need.

Elisabeth Elliot

#59. This may be done by grafting, by confining the roots, withholding water, bending the branches, or in a hundred other ways which all proceed upon the same principle.

Robert Fortune

#60. Adults are starved for a kind word. When you understand the power of honest praise (as opposed to bullshitting, flattery, and sucking up), you realize that withholding it borders on immoral. If you see something that impresses you, a decent respect to humanity insists you voice your praise.

Scott Adams

#61. Love is not simply giving; it is judicious giving and judicious withholding as well. It is judicious praising and judicious criticizing. It is judicious arguing, struggling, confronting, urging, pushing and pulling in addition to comforting. It is leadership.

M. Scott Peck

#62. The partnership between the United States and Egypt is crucial to both countries, and it can't be predicated on political manipulation and threats of withholding aid.

Ahmed Zewail

#63. When I speak of God's will, it helps to know that he wants the best for us. If you can't believe he's there, pray anyway. If you feel he's cheap and withholding, thank him anyway. There will come a time when you'll thank him even for the hard places.

Jan Karon

#64. You know that when a group of utility workers are withholding their customer service identification cards, they are likely engaging in some form of illegal activity at your home.

Steven Magee

#65. You are either withholding your love in fear or giving your deepest gifts.

David Deida

#66. Love has been the ontological pattern for me. And also the withholding pattern.

Masha Tupitsyn

#67. Whatever you think people are withholding from you-praise, appreciation, assistance, loving care, and so on-give it to them.

Eckhart Tolle

#68. Honesty is the best insurance policy.

Brian Spellman

#69. No matter what's happening in your life, you can change the trajectory of events by closing your eyes, reviewing your thought and behavior, and sending love wherever you've been withholding it.

Marianne Williamson

#70. They always try to trick you, deliberately throwing extraneous plot lines just to confuse and misguide you, withholding important information until the last chapter, using vague and misleading descriptions so you don't notice something that should be plain as day.

Moxie Mezcal

#71. When one has to seek the honour that comes from God only, he will take the withholding of the honour that comes from men very quietly indeed.

George MacDonald

#72. Withholding of payment of taxes is one of the quickest methods of overthrowing a government.

Mahatma Gandhi

#73. Withholding things in a story is no good if you aren't building to something substantial. It becomes foreplay without the main event, and no one wants that.

J.J. Abrams

#74. I feel very strongly that we make decisions about what we're giving to the world, what we're withholding from the world, by virtue of what we put on our bodies.

Meryl Streep

#75. When you've said all of the bad things and all of the good things you haven't been saying, you will find that what you've really been withholding is, "I love you." You don't have to go looking for love when it is where you come from.

Werner Erhard

#76. Getting a tax refund is nice, but having more money year-round is better. If you get a chunk of change from the IRS, you're giving the government an interest-free loan - not something they, or any bank, would ever give you. Instead, change your withholding so you get a little extra in each paycheck.

Jean Chatzky

#77. You do not keep the audience's interest by giving it information, but by withholding information ...

Robert McKee

#78. When you understand the power of honest praise (as opposed to bullshitting, flattery, and sucking up), you realize that withholding it borders on immoral.

Scott Adams

#79. Bob Dylan has always sealed his decisions with the unexplainable. His motives for withholding the release of the magnificent 'Basement Tapes' will be as forever obscure as Brian Wilson's reasons for the destruction of the tapes for 'Smile.'

Jon Landau

#80. An unconscious, gentle process whereby people who want to be loving attempt to be so by telling little white lies, by withholding some of the truth about themselves and their feelings in order to avoid conflict. Pseudocommunity is conflict-avoiding; true community is conflict-resolving.

M. Scott Peck

#81. Mitch had a particular way with women - a formula of giving and withholding that almost always managed to hook them. Getting them to talk about themselves was the first step; remaining enigmatic was the second. There were other steps, but he used only the first two during that encounter.

Lisa Lutz

#82. The room hovered around me with great gentleness, as if the chairs and the tables and the walls were withholding their weight out of sympathy for my sudden frailty.

Sylvia Plath

#83. The audience creates its own personality, I've noticed, in the first five minutes. They will either be generous, funny, silly, withholding, academic, analytical, grudging. And I'm fascinated with how that gets constructed, because it happens right away.

Laurie Anderson

#84. I have never regretted erring on the side of withholding information.

Mindy Kaling

#85. If you withhold love as a form of punishment, who is being punished?

Donald L. Hicks

#86. When it comes to finances, remember that there are no withholding taxes on the wages of sin.

Mae West

#87. I excel at withholding. Resisting. Denying satisfaction.

Ainslie Hogarth

#88. My body, thus, and all my good besides, And all my merits gained and to be gained, I give them all away withholding nothing To bring about the benefit of beings.

Shantideva

#89. There is this peculiar blind spot in the culture of academic medicine around whether withholding trial results is research misconduct. People who work in any industry can reinforce each others' ideas about what is okay.

Ben Goldacre

#90. My father's voice had nevertheless remained untainted, inspiring, rebuking, granting or withholding approval. 'You do not work hard enough, Barry. You must help in your people's struggle. Wake up, black man!

Barack Obama

#91. I feel like a quote out of context, withholding the rest so I can be for you what you want to see.

Ben Folds

#92. Punishment also includes judgmental labeling and the withholding of privileges.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#93. Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings

David Sedaris

#94. Modern Slavery is not being shipped on boats; it is encouraging welfare programs and withholding information from the people that will aid them in making informed decisions.

Josephine Akhagbeme

#95. Entertainment works by withholding content with the purpose of increasing its value. And, when you think about it, those two are just vastly different approaches, but they can be bridged.

Robert Kyncl

#96. Do you think a woman can give a man everything while still withholding her heart? We are not made that way! - Fiona

Karen Marie Moning

#97. If you can't get what you want from life, see if you're withholding something from someone else, because you won't get what you want unless you start giving away what you have to those that need it. Selfishness is incompatible with abundance and going to Church won't help you escape this Divine law.

Robin Sacredfire

#98. Make it your goal never to fail in your desires or experience things you would rather avoid; try never to err in impulse and repulsion; aim to be perfect also in the practice of attention and withholding judgment.

Epictetus

#99. But the one thing he could not have imagined is that we were withholding nothing. That there was nothing on the other side of our silly rules; nothing.

Lionel Shriver

#100. The spokeswoman said, The victims, a mother and her young son, have been identified, but we're withholding their

David Baldacci