Withheld Quotes

62 quotes by 60 authors

The love withheld is always the love we long for most. — Susanna Tamaro
Cunning is strength withheld. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A certain pride, a certain awe, withheld him from offering to God even one prayer at night, though he knew it was in God's power… — James Joyce
If you're brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting, which can be anything from your house to bitter, old resentments, and set out… — Elizabeth Gilbert
What we give, we will receive, and what we withhold will be withheld from us. — Marianne Williamson
There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of… — Samuel Johnson
Men are indeed to be taught that the favour of God is offered, without exception, to all who ask it; but since those only begin… — John Calvin
I learned that money can be a lot of things,It can be something that is hoarded, fought over, protected, stolen and withheld. Or it can… — Louis C. K.
Reconciliation is not to be withheld when repentanceâ€”that is, deep, heartâ€changing acknowledgement of sin and a radical redirection of lifeâ€”takes place in the one being… — Dan B. Allender
The only thing I ever withheld from the KGB were the names of two agents whom I personally had known and handled and had a… — Aldrich Ames
I'm not interested in what the public thinks. My fight is in the courts. And while I have been fighting with the appeal it has… — John Wayne Gacy
I suppose I was lucky enough to be educated at a time when teachers still thought children could handle knowledge. They trusted us. Then there… — Sebastian Faulks
Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them. — Idries Shah
Among all the religious persecutions with which almost every page of modern history is stained, no victim ever suffered but for violation of what Government… — Richard Mentor Johnson
There is a real hunger for information about Obama and a sense that information is not being covered or, in some cases, even being withheld.… — Dinesh D'Souza
The very people who burst with proofs of exuberant vitality could easily be taken for prepared corpses, from whom the news of their not-quite-successful decease… — Theodor Adorno
It is a base thing for a man to wax old in careless self-neglect before he has lifted up his eyes and seen what manner… — Socrates
Do you know why the Lord withheld the sense of humor from women? So that we may love you instead of laugh at you. — Mrs. Patrick Campbell
such incidents brought me to the verge of despair, but little more and I would have put an end to my life - only art… — Ludwig van Beethoven
When information which properly belongs to the public is systematically withheld by those in power, the people soon become ignorant of their own affairs, distrustful… — Richard M. Nixon

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