Holding Back Quotes - Page 3

• I have 8-year-old twins, and I want them to grow up in a world where they can be anyone they want without any shame, without holding back, without being judged for it.

  Rib Hillis

  Growing Up, Years, World

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• Rural communities in Africa, South Asia and Latin America are where the majority of hungry people are and the inequality that exists between women and men in these communities is holding back progress. These women have a very tough time, so much is expected of them.

  Dionne Warwick

  Latin, Men, America

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• I registered the dukkha of self-aversion with such clarity that I knew there was no freedom unless I could love this life without holding back. This didn't mean I was going to ignore my flaws and stop seeking to improve what I could. But in the deepest way, I was not going to fixate on the conclusion that something was wrong with me.

  Tara Brach

  Mean, Self, Aversion

  Source: www.tarabrach.com

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• Everybody gets all worked up about trash talk but it is what it is - it's talk... You ask any player, honestly, if trash talk's gonna affect how hard they play, because if a little trash talk affects how hard they can play, it just lets us know that they were holding back or weren't playing harder or as hard as they could.

  Jason Babin

  Player, Littles, Trash Talk

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• some people meet the way the sky meets the earth, inevitably, and there is no stopping or holding back their love. It exists in a finished world, beyond the reach of common sense.

  Louise Erdrich

  Romantic, Sky, People

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• I'm more open to give things a go, but what I'm not good at yet is holding back. If something is daft or rubbish, I just go, I can't be doing it.

  Karl Pilkington

  Giving, Rubbish, Daft

  Source: www.geektown.co.uk

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• Kev wasn't certain if he was surrendering to Win or to his own passion for her. Only that there was no more holding back. He would take her. And he would give her everything he had, every part of his soul, even the broken pieces.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Passion, Winning, Broken

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Seduce Me At Sunrise: Number 2 in series”, p.238, Hachette UK

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• I prefer to regard a dessert as I would imagine the perfect woman: subtle, a little bittersweet, not blowsy and extrovert. Delicately made up, not highly rouged. Holding back, not exposing everything and, of course, with a flavor that lasts.

  Graham Kerr

  Food, Dessert First, Perfect

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• Holding back technology to reserve business models is like allowing blacksmiths to veto the internal combustion engine in order to protect their horseshoes.

  Don Tapscott

  Technology, Order, Marketing

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• When the answer to all my dreams is as close as a touch away, why am I here holding back what I'm trying to say?

  Clay Aiken

  Friendship, Dream, Trying

  Song: This is the Night, Album: Measure of a Man, 2003

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• If I've learned anything in my 30s, it's about holding back a little bit.

  Sandra Bernhard

  Littles, I've Learned, Bits

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• Larry wanted us to reposition the tower. We wouldn't, and won't. He's been holding back our fees. We want to get paid. And that's it. It'll get solved and we'll carry on with planning Ground Zero.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Zero, Towers, Want

  "You've got to have faith" by Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. August 4, 2004.

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• The big problem that is holding back Linux is games. People don't realize how critical games are in driving consumer purchasing behavior. We want to make it as easy as possible for the 2,500 games on Steam to run on Linux as well.

  Gabe Newell

  Running, Games, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Annabeth recognized something else in her face, too - in the hard set of her mouth and the deliberate way she raised her chin like she was ready to accept any challenge. Reyna was forcing a look of courage, while holding back a mixture of hopefulness and worry and fear that she couldn't show in public. Annabeth knew that expression. She saw it every time she looked in a mirror.

  Rick Riordan

  Mirrors, Expression, Worry

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• She and Thomas had helped construct the Maze; at the same time she’d exerted a lot of effort to build a wall holding back her emotions.

  James Dashner

  Wall, Effort, Mazes

  James Dashner (2016). “The Maze Runner Series Complete Collection (Maze Runner)”, p.1005, Delacorte Press

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• This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.

  Aberjhani

  Different, World, Agape Love

  Aberjhani (2000). “I Made My Boy Out of Poetry”, p.62, Bright Skylark Book Products

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• I would say I am more concerned with the plays I'm going to do than the movies. I'm more comfortable in a play. In film, there's always a certain sense of control, of holding back. The stage is different ; there's more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.

  Al Pacino

  Play, Different, Demand

  Source: members.tripod.com

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• I think it's better when you're natural, when you just do whatever you want, instead of doing classes where I see all these other people holding back because they've been trained with certain skills or techniques. I'm like, whatever.

  Gisele Bundchen

  Thinking, Class, Skills

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. October 5, 2004.

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• All the way up the river she's been holding back somehow, waiting. Now you'll both have to wait. I'm not going to disappoint her, Kit. When I take you on board the Witch, it's going to be for keeps.

  Elizabeth George Speare

  Rivers, Waiting, Boards

  Elizabeth George Speare (1958). “The Witch of Blackbird Pond”, p.249, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There's always something new with sex. We lived in a world without Viagra, now we live in a world with Viagra. We lived in a world without blowjobs and anilingus in the Oval Office, and then it happens and you get to write about it. We live in a world where now the government is screwing with contraception and holding back vaccines that could save 4,000 women's lives a year, and you get to write about that. It's not as much fun as anilingus in the Oval Office, but what are you going to do? If you pay attention, there's always something new, and it's always really invigorating.

  Dan Savage

  Sex, Fun, Writing

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 8, 2006.

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• Don't you even think of holding back, or I'll...I'll tell Spade you let me get away from you," she improvised. "And that I got mugged," she added for good measure. Cries of "Mon Dieu!" and "That's not fair!" echoed immediately from the two vampires. "I'm a crazy human female, you know I'll do it," Denise warned them

  Jeaniene Frost

  Crazy, Thinking, Two

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• Thinking of holding back is blowing it more than pushing your hardest and falling.

  Dane Reynolds

  Fall, Thinking, Pushing

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• Have you ever happened, reader, to feel that subtle sorrow of parting with an unloved abode? The heart does not break, as it does in parting with dear objects. The humid gaze does not wander around holding back a tear, as if it wished to carry away in it a trembling reflection of the abandoned spot; but in the best corner of our hearts we feel pity for the things which we did not bring to life with our breath, which we hardly noticed and are now leaving forever. This already dead iventory will not be resurrected in one's memory.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Memories, Heart, Reflection

  Vladimir Nabokov, Michael Scammell (1963). “The gift”

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• If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back, then you suffer. Every moment is the most important moment of your life. No future time is better than now to let down your guard and love.

  David Deida

  Love, Spiritual, Order

  David Deida (2009). “Blue Truth: A Spiritual Guide to Life and Death and Love and Sex”, p.7, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Nature, Children, Integrity

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1996). “Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

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