Withholding Quotes

Withholding Quote of the day

Withholding information that would get innocent people killed was the right thing to do, not a journalistic sin.

You cannot receive what you don't give. Outflow determines inflow.

Ye marshes, how candid and simple and nothing-withholding and free, Ye publish yourselves to the sky and offer yourselves to the sea.

Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings.

Secrecy in science does not work. Withholding information does more damage to us than to our competitors.

Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.

Real power is achieved when the ruling class controls the material essentials of life, granting and withholding them from the masses as if they were privileges.

Not to employ prayer with my patients was the equivalent of deliberately withholding a potent drug or surgical procedure.

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

My body, thus, and all my good besides, And all my merits gained and to be gained, I give them all away withholding nothing To bring about the benefit of beings.

Whatever you think people are withholding from you-praise, appreciation, assistance, loving care, and so on-give it to them.

By withholding the knowledge of [the Scriptures] from children, we deprive ourselves of the best means of awakening moral sensibility in their minds.

Toleration is not the opposite of intolerance, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding liberty of conscience, the other of granting it.

No matter what's happening in your life, you can change the trajectory of events by closing your eyes, reviewing your thought and behavior, and sending love wherever you've been withholding it.

When it comes to finances, remember that there are no withholding taxes on the wages of sin.

You are either withholding your love in fear or giving your deepest gifts.

I feel like a quote out of context, withholding the rest so I can be for you what you want to see.

No one is longing to meet a desperate needy, angry, withholding, controlling person. If your beloved is out there they can't pick up your signals if you're dwelling in those spaces within yourself.

Give cheerfully. If we're not cheerful, the problem is our heart, and the solution is redirecting our heart, not withholding our giving.

Give a beggar a dime and he'll bless you. Give him a dollar and he'll curse you for withholding the rest of your fortune. Poverty is a bag with a hole at the bottom.

Faith is a withholding of conclusion so that you allow what is to arise.

Propaganda is persuading people to make up their minds while withholding some of the facts from them.

With all the justifications I have had in place, telling the truth under certain circumstances was in my universe no different than telling a lie or withholding.

Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers.

Do you think a woman can give a man everything while still withholding her heart? We are not made that way! - Fiona

Money has power. And so withholding money has power too, especially when a bunch of people do it together.

Giving does not impoverish us nor does withholding enrich us.

To take nature and natural play away from children may be tantamount to withholding oxygen.

There seem to be two ways of generating interest from the reader: withholding information or by telling the reader on the first page exactly what's going to happen.

Withholding a decision is a decision.

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.

I have never regretted erring on the side of withholding information.

I feel very strongly that we make decisions about what we're giving to the world, what we're withholding from the world, by virtue of what we put on our bodies.

Love has been the ontological pattern for me. And also the withholding pattern.

Punishment also includes judgmental labeling and the withholding of privileges.

There is a beauty that arises from withholding judgment and evading comparison, a grace in not demanding consensus.

Withholding of payment of taxes is one of the quickest methods of overthrowing a government.

The idea of withholding a massive secret is obviously quite exciting to some people. It is also the basis of much classic drama, of course, from Sophocles onwards.

The Dutch and the English, former competitors for world dominance, taught me the wisdom of waiting as well as withholding.

That's what interests me in poetry. That withholding, that white space, the pressure, and my long-term faith in violent concision, is still with me.

Narrative tension is primarily about withholding information.

Power, today, comes from sharing information, not withholding it.

Withholding things in a story is no good if you aren't building to something substantial. It becomes foreplay without the main event, and no one wants that.

If you withhold love as a form of punishment, who is being punished?

What you withhold in this life will be withheld from you in the next.

Honesty is the best insurance policy.