You Lose By Holding Back Quotes

#1. You never lose by loving, you lose by holding back.

Barbara De Angelis

#2. Often our students see nothing about religious faith except the lowest common denominator. They see nothing but TV evangelists and fools, and it doesn't occur to them that intelligent people might find this religious business worth living their lives by.

Doris Betts

#3. Our ultimate love/desire is shaped by practices, not ideas that are merely communicated to us.

James K.A. Smith

#4. You never lose by loving, only by holding back"

Faith Mortimer

Faith Mortimer

#5. No, in country money, the country scale of gain,
The requisite lift of spirit has never been found ...

Robert Frost

#6. A lot of times students will come up to me and say, "Well, I can't write because I don't know what I think about such-and-such." And I say, "That's why you have to write." You don't wait until you know, because then who cares - it's static.

Alison Hawthorne Deming

#7. I tend to lose myself in the moment. I'm not very good at holding back. I don't know how to do this without feeling everything. My emotions are the tool I use to perform.

Florence Welch

#8. You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.

Barbara De Angelis

#9. To get, simply release, and then gently invite.

Bryant McGill

#10. The world is too serious. To get mad at a work of art-because maybe somebody, somewhere is blowing his stack over what I've done-is like getting mad at a hot fudge sundae.

Kurt Vonnegut

#11. It is all knowing what to start with. If you start in the right place and follow all the steps, you will get to the right end.

Elizabeth Moon

#12. I stopped being half-witted and became sly whenever I took the trouble.

Samuel Beckett

#13. I love you, Caitlin.
I leaned in and kissed him, holding back the tears in the realization that he was able to put into words what I was willing to lose my life over.

Anna Lazaridis

#14. I apologize because of the terrible mess the planet is in. But it has always been a mess. There have never been any 'Good Old Days,' there have just been days. And as I say to my grandchildren, 'Don't look at me. I just got here myself.'

Kurt Vonnegut

#15. People don't tell others when they lose interest, just like they don't tell others when they love them. And then they wonder why they are so unhappy.

Donna Lynn Hope

#16. Congratulations on surviving life up to this point. All the trials, heartaches, deceptions, sorrows and anxieties...You've come through all the adversity and are still here to tell the tale! you are quite simply, brilliant!

Karen Gibbs