Top 169 Withhold Quotes & Sayings

The earth flourishes, or is overrun with noxious weeds and brambles, as we apply or withhold the cultivating hand. So fares it with the intellectual system of man.

Maybe that's the thing I'd been missing about love. You don't withhold it or partition it out when it's deserved. You can't control it like that.

To withhold forgiveness is to take poison and expect the unforgiven to die.

When you forgive somebody, when you are generous, when you withhold judgment, when you love and when you stand up to injustice, you are, in that moment, bringing heaven to earth.

Try and withhold your judgment, because as soon as you think you know something, you're shutting down.

Behold your new mistress, my wife," he pronounced, "and know that when she bids you, I have bidden you. What service you render her, you are rendering me. What loyalty you give or withhold from her, you give or withhold from me!" -Royce Westmoreland

A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it.

All the experience of the greatest city in the world could not withhold me.

My goal was never to withhold information; my goal was to make sure everything was accurate, and frequently it wasn't.

Withhold a smile only when the smile can hurt someone. Otherwise, let it bloom forth in a riot.

It's not their job from the establishment-through-calcification to sit there and try to withhold the president, to rein him in or slow down his agenda.

Withhold admiration from a narcissist and be disliked. Give it and be treated with indifference.

The toughest test of good judgment is to know when to withhold your better judgment.

A first kiss is the demarcation line: the same information that a moment ago felt private, all of a suddens seems unfair to withhold. And with that exchange came more.

Only the blood of Jesus can cleanse us, yet if we withhold ourselves from that blood, we will be unclean forever.

A satirist, often in danger himself, has the bravery of knowing that to withhold wit's conjecture is to endanger the species.

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

Not even your love could withhold you from fulfilling your own personal legend.

Whatever truth we feel compelled to withhold, no matter how unthinkable it is to imagine ourselves telling it, not to is a way of spiritually holding our breath. You can only do it for so long.

It is wise to withhold one's heart and mind from men who think themselves superior.

It isn't the Lord who withholds himself from us. It is we who withhold ourselves from him because of our failure to keep his commandments.

O, my God! withhold from me the wealth to which tears and sighs and curses cleave. Better none at all than wealth like that.

They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.

If she took Po as her husband, she would be making promises about a future she couldn't yet see. For once she became his wife, she would be his forever. And, no matter how much freedom Po gave her, she would always know that it was a gift. Her freedom would be not be her own; it would be Po's to give or to withhold. That he never would withhold it made no difference. If it did not come from her, it was not really hers.

When we withhold the tithe we bring upon ourselves a curse.

To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly.

Think of one person who you are tempted for any reason to withhold love from, and pray for their happiness. In that moment your pain will stop.

Though I am weak, yet God, when prayed, Cannot withhold his conquering aid.

I started feeling it was wrong to withhold my music for money - as strange as that might sound!

We have become convinced that it is better to avoid such symbolic disguisings of the truth in what we tell children and not to withhold from them a knowledge of the true state of affairs commensurate with their intellectual level.

Did not God Sometimes withhold in mercy what we ask, We should be ruined at our own request.

There are certain things I would never write about - anything that's too distasteful. I think that you can withhold information.

It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.

I will withhold federal funding from universities that shut down debate and can't stand different points of view.

As an actor, I was taught, from an early age, that secrets are the most powerful thing that you can have on screen, and that what you withhold is as important as what you share.

It is beyond my comprehension that any humane person would withhold such a beneficial substance from people in such great need simply because others use it for different purposes.

Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.

If Jesus forgave those who nailed Him to the cross, and if God forgives you and me, how can you withhold your forgiveness from someone else?

Don't abuse yourself or withhold self-love or self-care.

Legislation that would withhold funding for the United Nations is fundamentally flawed in concept and practice, sets us back, is self-defeating, and doesn't work.

No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.

Take lack of candor. ... I'm not talking about boldface lying, but a tendency to withhold information. That behavior is far more common, and it frustrates teams and bosses to no end.

This is the risk: the primary word can only be spoken with the whole being. He who gives himself to it may withhold nothing of himself.

There's only one of us here: What we give to others, we give to ourselves. What we withhold from others, we withhold from ourselves. In any moment, when we choose fear instead of love, we deny ourselves the experience of Paradise.

Is it possible for the rose to say, "I will give my fragrance to the good people who smell me, but I will withhold it from the bad?" Or is it possible for the lamp to say, "I will give my light to the good people in this room, but I will withhold it from the evil people"? Or can a tree say, "I'll give my shade to the good people who rest under me, but I will withhold it from the bad"? These are images of what love is about.

The love that you withhold is the pain that you carry.

I've already composed and written a letter to the House administration telling them to withhold my paycheck in the event of a lapse of appropriations.

It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.

What we give, we will receive, and what we withhold will be withheld from us.

I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.

A strong player, which has the sufficient critical mass, can withhold pressure better and create a more stable environment that benefits shareholders as well as employees.

The main part of the Hyde bill is to withhold U.S. contributions to the regular assessed budget of the U.N. unless they make real and substantial reforms in the way they operate.

Sometimes as a parent, you have to give your child that doesn't do his or her chores some tough love and withhold the allowance.

Lord, I am willing To receive what You give. To lack what You withhold. To relinquish what You take, To suffer what You inflict, To be what you require.

...it was better to answer, no matter how ineptly, thank to withhold a reply. Because sometimes silence could wound someone nearly as badly as a bullet.

Allah does not withhold to withhold. Remaking the heart was the objective. To remake it, He sometimes breaks it first.

No one who has had a unique experience with prayer has a right to withhold it from others.

If you are under obligations to many, it is prudent to postpone the recompensing of one, until it be in your power to remunerate all; otherwise you will make more enemies by what you give, than by what you withhold.

Science is all those things which are confirmed to such a degree that it would be unreasonable to withhold one's provisional consent.

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.