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Quotes About Withheld

I have always had an interest in performers who play against the most obvious of expectations and are able to find something secret, something withheld, and some level of restraint.
~ Todd Haynes
Relationships are living things—they require tending. Like plants, they flourish when they are cared for. Our ended relationships remind us of how much nurturing was withheld, how many resentments piled up, how much communication never occurred, how many needs went unfulfilled. They challenge us to see how we were lazy last time and what we must do differently in order to cultivate our next relationship.
~ Daphne Rose Kingma
At these proceedings, the attorneys for Kimmel and Short presented undeniable proof that Washington had complete foreknowledge of the Pearl Harbor attack, but had withheld this information from the commanders in Hawaii.
~ James Perloff
news—news which was withheld or slanted in Italy, where journalism had been defined, by law, as a supportive adjunct to national policy.
~ Alan Furst
Mysticism requires the notion of the unknowable, which is revealed to some and withheld from others; this divides men into those who feel guilt and those who cash in on it.
~ Ayn Rand
Withheld potential is a "CRIME TO HUMANITY
~ Fela Durotoye
The degree to which the opportunity to use power effectively is granted to or withheld from individuals is one operative difference between those companies which stagnate and those which innovate.
~ Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Eighty-five percent cannot read when they enter the security forces of Afghanistan. Why? Because the Taliban withheld education during the period of time in which these men and women would have learned to read.
~ James G. Stavridis
love can die from being withheld, like a flower that is so beautiful you hide it away from the sun trying to make it last longer; but every flower needs sun, and being in love requires risking yourself.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
love can die from being withheld, like a flower that is so beautiful you hide it away from the sun trying to make it last longer;
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Privilege is provisional. It can be denied, withheld, offered grudgingly, and summarily withdrawn.
~ Margo Jefferson
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. There is a sense that there are elements of the media that are protective of Obama, that they would rather block a story that is embarassing about Obama than let the American public decide.
~ Dinesh D'Souza
Literally thousands of lawsuits have been filed against the NFL by retired players, many of whom say that information on brain injury in football was withheld from them.
~ Henry Rollins
I had been outnumbered. Outmaneuvered. They'd withheld information from me. Worse, logic and rationality were on their side.
~ Robin Hobb
No doubt but ye are the People - absolute, strong and wise; Whatever your hear has desired ye have not withheld from your eyes. On your own heads, in your own hands, the sin and the saving lies!
~ Rudyard Kipling
I also found out why I should never reveal the why to others. A little knowledge withheld is a great advantage one should store for future use. That is the power of chess. It is a game of secrets in which one must show and never tell.
~ Amy Tan
I also found out why i should never reveal why to others. A little knowledge withheld is a great advantage one should store for future use. That is the power of chess. It is a game of secrets in which one must show and never tell.
~ Amy Tan
What I realized about the dreamland, however, was the power it once held simply by being withheld from me. It created yearning—and also purpose. It demanded the best of me to meet my purpose: diligence, intelligence, and an understanding of
~ Amy Tan
Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
~ Eldridge Cleaver
Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
~ Eldridge Cleaver
He almost dared to say that her graying mustache gave her a military look, a more distinguished air: his private smile at the thought he had withheld ruffled her as much.
~ Elizabeth Taylor
How should the new day arrive, if the night is withheld from it and everything is suppressed into the twilight of decisionlessness?
~ Martin Heidegger
The love withheld is always the love we long for most.
~ Susanna Tamaro
Listen, my father had written. Listen to hear if they are telling the truth or only part of the truth, for that is the lesson of history: that the victors tell the tale of their triumph in a manner to grant accolades to themselves and heap blame upon their rivals. Ask yourself if part of the story is being withheld by design or ignorance.
~ Kate Elliott