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Quotes About Withheld

Facts and data, rather than opinion, are the two cornerstones of problem solving, and yet they are consistently withheld from the people by American media. We must have facts and data in order to recognize where there is a problem!
~ Roseanne Barr
The love withheld is always the love we long for most.
~ Susanna Tamaro
Pain withheld becomes hate, pain shared becomes love.
~ Seekerohan
One theory holds that the CIA has spotted them already but the information is being withheld until it is ruled out that they are hoarding weapons of mass destruction like blowpipes.)
~ V.S. Ramachandran
I fear me, I fear me: this is one of the profoundly damned. I blurt out something that should, perhaps, be withheld for several hundred pages—but that damned thing was the size of an elephant.
~ Charles Fort
He was in love, very much in love; and it was a love which, operating on an active, sanguine spirit, of more warmth than delicacy, made her affection appear of greater consequence, because it was witheld, and determined him to have the glory, as well as the felicity of forcing her to love him.
~ Jane Austen
I think that much of the truth has been withheld from the American people.
~ Nancy Pelosi
The camorra turned the needs and rights of their fellow prisoners (like their bread or their pizzo) into favours. Favours that had to be paid for, one way or another. The camorra system was based on the power to grant those favours and to take them away. Or even to throw them in people's faces. The real cruelty of the turnip-throwing episode is that the camorrista was bestowing a favour that he could just as easily have withheld.
~ Unknown
Privilege is provisional. Privilege can be denied, withheld, offered grudgingly and summarily withdrawn. Entitlement is impervious to the kinds of verbs that modify privilege. Our people have had to work, scrape for privilege, gobble it down when those who would snatch it away weren't looking. Keep a close watch.
~ Margo Jefferson
If There Be Sorrow If there be sorrow let it be for things undone undreamed unrealized unattained to these add one: Love withheld ... restrained
~ Mari Evans
She had stuff to give, but it was ungiven; it was locked away.
~ Matt Haig
Therefore, on account of you the heavens have withheld their dew and the earth has withheld its crops.
~ Haggai 1:10