Top 1200 Holding Back Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

I was holding my mum's hands and praying. Will people accept me with my pimples and hoarse voice?

Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult.

Dating a new man is like holding a strawberry milkshake; first the taste, then the pleasure.

It's no fun feeling your thoughts are being controlled by an electrode, and someone else is holding the clicker.

We need, first of all, for there to be accountability, for there to be somebody who is responsible for enforcing standards and holding people's feet to the fire.

I don't believe in holding your tongue, especially if it's something you can directly benefit from or some people need to hear.

Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.

There's one theory that the funnier a comic is in his act, the more mind-numbingly boring he'll be when he's not holding a microphone.

Violet heard the coughing and came running back. She sank down on the bench beside Rose, putting her arm around the older girl and holding a handkerchief to Rose's lips. "What happened?" she asked Galen, her tone just shy of being accusatory. "I am so sorry, Your Highness," Galen said, backing away. "I made her laugh, and–" "You made her laugh?" Violet's eyes widened. "She hasn't laughed in weeks!" She smiled at Galen and gave Rose's shoulders a little squeeze.

Lending has come back in retail; it has come back in working capital. It has also come back in other forms, like government contract being given out to companies.

You all want to know what is my dream? Very simple. To walk along the beach, holding the hand of my lover.

I'm standing here, holding a half a lemon in my hand. I'm speechless, I'm excited . . . I'm a wreck. Caleb wants to be where I am.

A bore is someone who persists in holding his own views after we have enlightened him with ours.

There's no going back from what happened. You can go back and understand the past, but you can't go back and change it.

I touched the combination lock. I concentrated so hard I felt like I was dead-lifting five hundred pounds. My pulse quickening. A line of sweat trickled down my nose. Finally I felt gears turning. Metal groaned, tumblers clicked, and the bolts popped back. Carefully avoiding the handle, I pried open the door with my fingertips and extracted an unbroken vial of green liquid. Hal exhaled. Thalia kissed me on the cheek, which she probably shouldn't haven't done while I was holding a tube of deadly poison. "You are so good," she said. Did that make the risk worth? Yeah, pretty much.

For me, pictures provide a means of holding, intensely, a moment of communication between one human and another.

How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?

I couldn't ever go back home without being something. I probably would never have gone back home. That was definitely a big motivation. To get back home, and not empty-handed.

I take his hand, holding on tightly, preparing for the cameras, and dreading the moment when I will finally have to let go.

You will be safe in His arms 'cause the hands that hold the world are holding your heart.

One of the big problems we had during the financial crisis was the intermingling of banks and holding companies and complex securities.

You come to a point where you give up on holding yourself to a perfect feminist ideal — it just feels stifling.

If people only knew how much I secretly hated them, they'd love me for holding it in.

We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.

This is Art holding a Mirror up to Life. That’s why everything is exactly the wrong way around.

Visually speaking, nothing calls Shakespeare to mind like Hamlet holding Yorick's skull.

I feel so lucky that I met the love of my life. You know somebody's in it to win it when...you're having a seizure and they're holding you.

North Korea is the errant teenage child, aren't they? Or toddler - they're holding their breath until they get their way.

Weeping is terrible for the complexion" said Leonie, holding Shayndel close, "but it is very good for the soul.

We have to take our anger and rage and channel it into building, growing, loving, holding each other up.

I don't watch a lot of football for fun. I've tried, but I'm always looking to see if the left tackle is holding.

I always dreamt of holding the bat and winning games for India. That was my inspiration to take up cricket.

Reluctantly, I pulled out my necklace and showed it to them. Samuel frowned. The little figure was stylized; I suppose he couldn't tell what it was at first. A dog?" asked Zee, staring at my necklace. A lamb," I said defensively, tucking it safely back under my shirt. "Because one of Christ's names is "The Lamb of God."" Samuel's shoulders shook slightly. "I can see it now, Mercy holding a roomful of vampire at bay with her glowing sheep." I gave his shoulder a hard push, aware of the heat climbing to my cheeks, but it didn't help. He sang in a soft taunting voice, "Mercy had a little lamb.

I am attached to my Blackberry. Sometimes, when I'm holding it, my other hand goes to my pocket automatically in search of it.

I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.

One reason women are left 'holding the baby' is anti-male discrimination in rights of maternity/paternity leave.

No one in America should ever be afraid to walk down the street holding the hand of the person they love.

Not. Your. Fault." I nodded again, holding onto his words like they were redemption.

You’ll come back To me . . . It’s written in the stars, you see, you’ll come back. You’ll come back, it’s a fact that I am strong because I do believe in you.

People say that forgiving is my flaw, but I really believe that holding grudges and anger is a waste of energy.

We are all the same ... all the same... longing to find our way back ... back to the One ... back to the Only One!

The problem with holding a grudge is that your hands are then too full to hold onto anything else.

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

Before the TRUTH can set you free,you must first recognize which LIES are holding you hostage.

If they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth.

News people were holding me up as a symbol of defiance to the boycott and I couldn't even run.

Love means holding on to someone just as hard as you can because if you don't, one blink and they might disappear...forever.

I want people to know that it's all right to come back to New Orleans. You can drink the water. The only way that the city can come back is if you come back. Tourism is a big part of it.

People use me as a figurehead, and to me that misses the point and is blatantly offensive to thin women - my sister, for one. Curves don't epitomise a woman. Saying, 'Skinny is ugly' should be no more acceptable than saying fat is. I find all this stuff a very controlling and effective way of making women obsess over their weight, instead of exploiting their more important attributes, such as intellect, strength and power. We could be getting angry about unequal pay and unequal opportunities, but we're too busy being told we're not thin enough or curvy enough. We're holding ourselves back.

Republicans should remember that when Trump campaigned, he wasn't holding up a conservative manifesto at every rally.

When I came back, after all those stories about Hitler and his snub, I came back to my native country, and I could not ride in the front of the bus. I had to go to the back door. I couldn't live where I wanted. Now what's the difference?

How Do you spell relax?" I whispered, holding his head with my hands. I think the answer is f-u-c-k-m-e." He answered.

I'm not great with breathing, like holding notes. I usually don't. A lot of people wouldn't believe it, but I don't focus on technical stuff.

I just never wanted to be in a position where I wouldn't be able to walk down the street holding my partner's hand.

I was always playing the Hammond Organ back to front even during the days of the Nice, going back to 1968. Really what I was doing there, was choosing notes at random and trying to make some sense of them, improvising back to front.

I don't work with anyone. I have no editors. I have no directors. There's no one even holding the camera or anything. It's just me in my apartment.

It's like holding a hot coal in your hand, it just burns you, it doesn't do me any good.

Stop hiding! Stop holding yourself back and playing yourself down! Stop worrying about how you look and what people are saying. Stop listening to what people are saying and trying to find out if they are whispering about you. Stop waiting for someone to tell you that you are okay or to make you feel special. Life is special! It is a special gift. This is your life! Now take your gift and live it out in the open! Decide today that you are going to live out loud!

Mindfulness was experienced as not holding onto the past, the future, or 'nowness:' but relaxing into the immediacy of whatever was happening.

Now people all across America are starting to believe in America again. We are coming back, back to the heights of greatness, back to America's proud role as a temple of justice and a champion of peace.