Top 1200 Holding Back Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

If you are holding hands with others, you can't hold a gun!

There are people who don`t like women holding power.

Once, I'd written a Western story, and one of the panels was just a hand holding a six-shooter, and there was a puff of smoke coming out of the barrel, and a straight horizontal line, indicating the trajectory of the bullet. So that page was sent back to me from the Code office, saying that the particular panel was too violent. I asked them what they meant, and they told me--I swear--"The puff of smoke is too big." Well, of course. So I had the artist make the smoke a little smaller, and the youth of America was saved.

..holding a book but reading the empty spaces.

Holding auditions in front of an audience is testing.

The universe is holding congress with itself.

I mean maybe I was holding all the aces, but what was the game?

The third level of wanting is "I commit to being rich." The definition of the word commit is to "devote oneself unreservedly." This means holding absolutely nothing back; giving 100 percent of everything you've got to achieving wealth. It means being willing to do whatever it takes for as long as it takes. This is the warrior's way. No excuses, no ifs, no butts, no maybes-and failure isn't an option. The warrior's way is simple: "I will be rich or I will die trying."

They haven't made love for years but sleep holding hands

Dignity is the reward of holding oneself accountable to conscience.

I keep going back as if I'm looking for something I have lost. Back to the motherland, sisterland, fatherland. Back to the beacon, the breast, the smell and taste of the breeze, and the singing of the rain.

Go back, go back to sleep. Yes, you are allowed. You who have no Love in your heart, you can go back to sleep. The power of Love is exclusive to us, you can go back to sleep. I have been burnt by the fire of Love. You who have no such yearning in your heart, go back to sleep. The path of Love, has seventy-two folds and countless facets. Your love and religion is all about deceit, control and hypocrisy, go back to sleep. I have torn to pieces my robe of speech, and have let go of the desire to converse. You who are not naked yet, you can go back to sleep.

I've had chronic back pain since I was a preteen - like, 12. I have really funny posture. I developed this funny posture where I hunch my back a little bit when I'm playing, and I overuse my back muscles instead of my abs. My posture has put a lot of strain on my lower back.

Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history.

You are holding a loaded gun, you idiot. Act like it.

If we keep holding on to God, there is nothing to fear.

Pride measures prosperity not by her own advantages but by the disadvantages of others. She would not even wish to be a goddess unless there were some wretches left whom she could order about and lord it over, whose misery would make her happiness seem all the more extraordinary, whose poverty can be tormented and exacerbated by a display of her wealth. This infernal serpent, pervading the human heart, keeps men from reforming their lives, holding them back like a suckfish.

I can conquer the world with one hand, as long as you are holding the other.

I started out at youth level as a holding midfielder.

Curse false-hand-holding boys!

We are so attached to the earth, and yet we are incapable of holding onto it.

An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue.

The First Amendment is really at the very core of political speech, and political speech is at the core of the First Amendment. So, we want to be very careful to make sure that candidates for office are free to express their views so that people will make an informed choice. We don't want them holding back, and sort of concealing their views and then disclosing them afterwards.

The backpackers are back on the bandwagon like this was my comeback season back, back in the day

I don't know of a single instance of these Arab freedom fighters holding up pictures of bin Laden. I know many instances of them displaying American flags in Benghazi or painting 'Facebook' on their foreheads in Cairo. The idea of freedom . . . is absolutely contradictory to what bin Laden stood for, which was . . . taking Muslims back to some medieval theocracy and encouraging people to die not for freedom but to go to paradise and to kill innocent people along the way. The contrast is really striking.

Holding on to the weak is called strength.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards

You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.

Holding a grudge is never positive or appropriate.

My favorite time frame for holding a stock is forever.

Life is about holding on and letting go.

I wasn't interested in holding onto the evidence of things.

It's useful to know how much society's holding you back. My mother would talk about how she was told by the head of her art school that she was the best painter, but that she wouldn't get the biggest prize because she would waste her talent by having children. I think we have to get honest with girls about how they can expect the world to block them, and we have to prepare girls, and ourselves, to break through those blocks.

Hope is a pocket of possibility. I'm holding it in my hand.

Democracy doesn't just consist of holding elections.

Holding up my purring cat to the moon. I sighed.

It made me strong.I took a step back, near my whole self in the mirror.I pushed back my shoulders and raised my chin, my back straight as an arrow.

When you are old you can look back and see yourself when you are young. It is almost like looking down from heaven. And you see yourself as a young woman, just a big girl really, half awake to the world. You see yourself happy, holding in your arms a good, decent, gentle, beloved young man with the blood keen in his veins, who before long is going to disappear, just disappear, into a storm of hate and flying metal and fire. And you just don't know it.

Faith is holding onto uncertainties with passionate conviction.

Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.... The real job of every moral teacher is to keep on bringing us back, time after time, to the old simple principles which we are all so anxious not to see; like bringing a horse back and back to the fence it has refused to jump or bringing a child back and back to the bit in its lesson that it wants to shirk.

We're not out holding fundraisers in the Hamptons or in Beverly Hills.

You attract the predominant thoughts that you're holding in your awareness.

Grip the club as if you were holding a baby bird.

Holding on to anything blocks wisdom.

It's tough to put that in perspective, playing in back-to-back-to-back Super Bowls.

You're the brightest thing I've ever seen, Kaylee. You're this beautiful ball of fire spitting sparks out at the world, burning fiercely, holding back the dark by sheer will. And I always knew that if I reached out -- if i tried to touch you -- I'd get burned. Because you're not mine. I'm not supposed to feel the fire. I'm not supposed to want it. But I do. I want you, Kaylee, like I've never wanted anything. Ever. I want the fire. I want the heat, and the light, and I want the burn.

I'm just not very good at holding on to jobs.

I'm a very tolerant man, except when it comes to holding a grudge.

Holding someone's hand was always my idea of joy.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

If you holding up the wall then you missing the point

I think fans oftentimes get an inferior product on back-to-back games, and I think that has to be the number one thing that gets addressed for the fans and for the players - the elimination or the drastic reduction of back-to-back games.

Our favorite holding period is forever.

Strength is measured not by holding on, but by letting go.

Holding on to anger only gives you tense muscles.

Nothing can drag you down if you're not holding on to it.

Nothing can be delicious when you are holding your breath.

Holding on to expectations is often the source of unforgiving feelings.

Life is balance of holding on and letting go.

I can zero in on subtle things because I'm holding the camera.