Hold Back Quotes
199 quotes by 173 authors
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You cannot hold back a good laugh any more than you can the tide. Both are forces of nature.
— William Rotsler
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Winds flap the sail, tortoise and snake are silent, a great plan looms. A bridge will fly over this moat dug by heaven and be…
— Mao Zedong
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We buy books, we go to gyms, we expend a lot of brain power on trying to hold back time, when we should be celebrating…
— Paulo Coelho
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'I thought I could live my life without you,' she says, trying desperately to hold back her tears. 'I can't. I've tried and I can't…
— Mike Gayle
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The contradictory experiments of chemists leave us at liberty to conclude what we please. My conclusion is, that art has not yet invented sufficient aids…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Never reveal all of yourself to other people; hold back something in reserve so that people are never quite sure if they really know you.
— Michael Korda
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Only our deep moral values and our strong social institutions can hold back that jungle and restrain the darker impulses of human nature.
— Ronald Reagan
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Eventually, we can get to a system where an electric company will be able to hold back some of the power so that maybe your…
— Carol Browner
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Environmental challenges have the power to deny equality of opportunity and hold back the progress of communities.
— Lisa P. Jackson
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I'd have avoided some of the pain if I could. Anyone would. But I wouldn't have missed knowing any of the people-even the ones whose…
— Red Skelton
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I've learned: When you get older, who cares? I don't mince words, I don't hold back. What are you gonna do to me? Fire me?…
— Joan Rivers
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There are these creative shows, all on cable, that are just so daring and out there. That's the stuff I really want to be a…
— Jamie Chung
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Thanks to the race-day adrenaline rush, any pace will feel easier than normal. So make a conscious effort to hold back in the early miles.
— Lorraine Moller
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I think maybe God was trying to tell me that gentleness begins with strength, quietness with security. A great tree is both moved and unmoved,…
— Rachel Held Evans
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Nothing great happens when you hold back.
— Scott Elrod
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When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.
— Walter Annenberg
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Writing is the same as music. It’s in how you phrase it, how you hold back the note, bend it, shape it, then release it.…
— Robert Creeley
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Too many marketers assume that future will hold back and wait until they're ready for it. It won't.
— Faith Popcorn
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It was an emotional roller coaster - going from Christmas, then your aunt dies, and then all the stats come out and you might get…
— Shaun Alexander
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Courageous men never lose the zest for living even though their life situation is zestless; cowardly men, overwhelmed by the uncertainties of life, lose the…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Who Wrote These Hold Back Quotes
173 authors contributed a total of 199 Hold Back Quotes, led by these top contributors: