Top 1200 Holding Back Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

I need to be at my peak and my best is holding up the trophy. Anything less I wouldn't be really excited about. So that's all I can focus on.

Holding a note is a very difficult thing - you have to use your whole body to achieve a perfect pitch.

In the development business doing something for both women and the environment is the equivalent of holding a royal flush in poker.

When you're 17 in the suburbs and know only three gay people, holding hands with your girlfriend is a proclamation.

There's no national glue holding us together because somebody put too much pluribus in the unum.

For sure, I don't do the right work but I feel holding a trophy or doing well doesn't satisfy me any more.

When I heard Cristiano Ronaldo was pictured holding a manbag, I was surprised it was a gucci bag and not another guy's sack.

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

I am thoroughly convinced that no individual or nation can live by holding itself apart from the community of others. Give and take is the law; and if India wants to raise herself once more, it is absolutely necessary that she brings out her treasures and throws them broadcast among the nations of the earth, and in return be ready to receive what others have to give her. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, and hatred is death. We commenced to die the day we began to hate other races; and nothing can prevent our death unless we come back to expansion, which is life.

Your problem is you don't understand what that word means. People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that's holding you back, the person who brings you to your attention so you can change your life. A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then they leave.

Holding on to some of your uniqueness is the trick instead of surrendering it at the Academy of Contemporary We're Gonna Make You a Star.

I wouldn't be doing my job, or holding myself to that standard that I see fit, if I just shut my mouth and played the game.

Failing to differentiate among employees — and holding on to bottom-tier performers — is actually the cruelest form of management there is.

The game of golf doesn't come rushing back to you. Last week I made a couple of fundamental mistakes that I probably wouldn't have made in the heat of the battle back when I was in my heyday, and those things have got to come back.

When you write a novel or paint a picture, you have the opportunity to approach it and back off, tear up pages, write, rewrite, paint over, and come back to it. In film, once you start shooting, you can't restart the clock, and you keep moving forward, and you don't look back, and you don't go back. And that is, of course, antithetical to the creative process. It's really hard to generate a comfortable creative flow under that kind of pressure.

We simply must get it through our heads that holding a low opinion of ourselves is not a virtue, but a vice.

Up or out" greatly magnified the careerist emphasis on holding a position rather than doing a job.

If you're white, you're alright. If you're brown, stick around. but if you're black, oh baby. Get back, Get back, Get back.

When a man once gets a start holding office, it is nearly always necessary to finally choke him off.

My Uncle, of course, would have been pleased to see someone with brown skin holding the office of president.

My father was the king of the joke-tellers. I was so impressed as a child watching him, holding people in rapt attention.

Now I'm free of him and I'm light as a feather. There's no weight holding me down; I'm ready to spread my wings and fly.

There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.

Jonas. Their rock. Shattered into so many shards. Holding himself together through the sheer force of will.

No publication is a staple of life. It's not bread and water. You have to make it noteworthy in people's minds and even in their hands as they're holding it.

The signal of the importance of something is whether you're actually measuring it and you're holding people accountable to improving those numbers.

When someone like Lukaku gets you in the position where he's holding you off it is key to try and nick it in front of him.

RICH, adj. Holding in trust and subject to an accounting the property of the indolent, the incompetent, the unthrifty, the envious and the luckless.

And her life will perhaps be the richer, for holding now within it the memory of what came, but could not stay.

Image of a girl holding a blaster to a twin’s temple. “Remember, bi***. You can’t spell ‘danger’ without DNA.” Blam.

You might be a redneck if you are still holding on to Confederate money because you think the South will rise again.

The last time I saw him he was walking down lover's lane holding his own hand.

I ain't never been the type of person out at the movies and holding hands and riding around listening to R. Kelly.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

Holding a menu at arm's length, peering at anything that required reading, made me feel so old.

Not just for tissue-holding folks, the empty nest syndrome is so pervasive, it can take over the most headstrong of parents.

You can't just draw a veil of secrecy when you are locking people up. You have to do at least the minimum, which is to acknowledge who you are holding.

My mom and dad are both in stand-up comedy, so that's where I started, that's where I got everything. My roots are holding the mic.

When we did 'Back In The Game' on the Wu-Tang 'Iron Flag' album, I did a verse about gambling. I didn't want to be 'back in the game' or 'back on the block' - that's typical. I made it all metaphorical.

I'm so uncoordinated, I can't really do that much, so my specialty is standing in one spot or holding on to something, like an exploding rocket or a jetski.

If you think we are going to gain ground by holding the American people hostage, saying that their taxes are at risk, I actually disagree.

I don't even like holding them. Whenever I hold a gun, I want to get it out of my hand as quick as possible.

She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.

Parliament must do a better job at holding the Government to account than it managed in the Article 50 debates.

Holding a grudge against someone means you think you know what they deserve and you take it upon yourself to give it to them.

In my view, there's no doubt that the Soviets had infinitely greater trouble holding their structure together than we did.

That feeling is so intoxicating, walking off the court holding the Larry O'Brien trophy. So I just want to do that again.

'Go Back Home' encompasses not only actual geographic location but also, for me, back home in the worlds of music and theatre, and back home in terms of making albums again. There are lots of meanings to that.

I like to go back to Chinese film-making from time to time. I don't think I can make Chinese films back to back; it's such a big effort. I'd have to take a very long break.

If you take a frown and turn it upside down, the person you are holding by the ankles will soon pass out.

Be lamps unto yourselves. Be refuges unto yourselves. Take yourself no external refuge. Hold fast to the truth as a lamp. Hold fast to the truth as a refuge. Look not for a refuge in anyone besides yourselves. And those, Ananda, who either now or after I am dead, Shall be a lamp unto themselves, Shall betake themselves as no external refuge, But holding fast to the truth as their lamp, Holding fast to the truth as their refuge, Shall not look for refuge to anyone else besides themselves, It is they who shall reach to the very topmost height; But they must be anxious to learn.

Holding Congressional hearings is the purview of the majority, and during the first years of the Obama administration, Democrats could not be bothered.

Hell would freeze over before I saw my parents happily holding hands and ice skating.

Holding our own government to account for the use of its power is, in my view, the highest mission of a U.S. news organization.

Your lower back contains numerous muscles. One group, called the erector spinae, attaches to your spinal column at different points along your back, allowing you to bend it forward and backward and from side to side. Toning these muscles helps prevent back pain, and it also tightens and firms your entire lower back.

Holding those two identities of being gay and Asian have, I guess, made my skin a little thicker.

What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath.

We've going to bring back thighs. Enough of these size zeros. Thighs, and back fat, and over-the-belt fat, it's all got to come back again, and we're the ones to do it.

If your best players are taking a shortcut, they're going to have problems holding everyone else accountable and responsible.

Each day brought just another minute of the things they could not leave behind. Jane Barrington sitting on the train coming back to Leningrad from Moscow, holding on to her son, knowing she had failed him, crying for Alexander, wanting another drink, and Harold, in his prison cell, crying for Alexander, and Yuri Stepanov on his stomach in the mud in Finland, crying for Alexander, and Dasha in the truck, on the Ladoga ice, crying for Alexander, and Tatiana on her knees in the Finland marsh, screaming for Alexander, and Anthony, alone with his nightmares, crying for his father.