Held Back Quotes
59 quotes by 55 authors
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"Endow scientific research and we shall know the truth, when and where it is possible to ascertain it;" but the counterblast is at hand: "To…
— Karl Pearson
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Painting or poetry is made as one makes love - a total embrace, prudence thrown to the winds, nothing held back.
— Joan Miro
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No one should be held back from realising their potential by fears that they will not be able to afford to go to university or…
— Gordon Brown
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We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.
— Malala Yousafzai
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I think where I've instinctively found myself is that I am somewhat guarded in my public life. Being interviewed or being photographed or just in…
— Annette Bening
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I want to be challenged I want to work and I want to feel that I am not being held back that there is something…
— Sofia Vassilieva
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There's nothing to stop a man from writing unless that man stops himself. If a man truly desires to write, then he will. Rejection and…
— Charles Bukowski
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I must say this now about that first fire. It was magic. Out of dead tinder and grass and sticks came a live warm light.…
— Jean Craighead George
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We cannot succeed when half of us are held back. We call upon our sisters around the world to be brave, to embrace the strength…
— Malala Yousafzai
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Humans are different in private than in the presence of others. While the private persona merges into the social persona in varying degrees, the union…
— Brian Herbert
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If, in the case of the worst sinners and those who formerly sinned much against God, when afterwards they believe, the remission of their sins…
— Cyprian
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No-one has held back. They have put some definition around the numbers and now we have to wait for the reality.
— Joseph Stanislaw
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The president's grand experiment in trickle-down government has held back rather than sped economic recovery. He seems to sincerely believe we can build a middle…
— Mitch Daniels
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What was the freedom to which the adult human being rose in the morning, if each act was held back or inspired by the overpowering…
— Delmore Schwartz
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I'm creating the kind of games that I like right now. I'm not being held back by technology.
— John Romero
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Be not held back by fear's insane insistence that sureness lies in doubt. I am not doubtful, but certain. The miracle is always there. I…
— Helen Schucman
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Stories are not like the real world; they aren't held back by what we know is false or true. What's important is how a story…
— Tahir Shah
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Women have been held back and limited throughout the centuries. Creation could not have been rendered, not even considered, let alone be brought into manifestation…
— Alice Coltrane
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It is the nature of the Kali Yuga that most human beings are now held back from spiritual liberation due to the gravity of inertia,…
— Zeena Schreck
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Tell it fast before you get scared and silence yourself. You'll never wish you'd held back a little more.
— Catherynne M. Valente
Who Wrote These Held Back Quotes
55 authors contributed a total of 59 Held Back Quotes, led by these top contributors: