Withholding Quotes

“If you withhold love as a form of punishment, who is being punished?”
― Donald L. Hicks, Look into the stillness

“Be honest. This applies to every area of your life. Sketchiness is not an attractive trait. No more trying to cover up your baggage, sweeping things under the rug, withholding truth, blatant lying, or even telling seemingly ‘harmless’ white lies or half-truths – release the need to lie completely! Start NOW.”
― Alaric Hutchinson, Living Peace: Essential Teachings For Enriching Life

“She seems to always get it
To have become adept at empathy
Always giving excuses for people who’ve aggrieved her
To the point it’s hard for her to hit back when necessary
All because she assumes she ‘understands’
Then, one day . . .
She finally stands up for herself
At that moment, she revels in the natural instinct of self-preservation
She realises all this while the power she’s been withholding
In a transcendent moment of epiphany
It’s all beautiful ‘cause
Now, she can get back to empathy with understanding, rather, than without.”
― Ufuoma Apoki

“What you withhold in this life will be withheld from you in the next.”
― A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar

“Something was withheld . . .
We found it was ourselves.”
― Robert Frost

“Honesty is the best insurance policy.”
― Brian Spellman

“...It wasn't that I couldn't open up; it was just that I needed to control the information. I needed to think about it in advance, I needed to look at the pages of my journal in the middle of the night and consider which ones to type.

But I was disappointed. I wished I could do it over again and feel what it would have been like not to hold back. I had been given a chance to be known, and I had not taken it...Everyone else had taken a risk...and come out closer.

...for years I'd still be standing on that stage, not knowing what I wanted, to withhold or to reveal, to yield or to protect. Refusal was safer: less risk...The gestures I committed to were self-denial and containment. But was that really what I wanted? Because for years I'd still wonder what it would be like not to hold tight...what it would be like to say.”
― Susan Burton, Empty

“Remember, conservative means withholding and liberal means generosity. It's pretty self-explanatory.”
― Kevyn Aucoin, Face Forward

“Women aren't so keen to have them anymore, not where I come from, anyway. They've got other fish to fry, which is fair enough. But they don't realise, sometimes, what they're missing, or what they're withholding, you know? The power they have.”
― Tim Winton

“Withholding disability benefits for years from a disabled person is one of the cruelest things a government can do to a citizen.”
― Steven Magee

“Sometimes what you don’t say is more powerful than anything you could say.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“Florida withholding the number of dead bodies found by emergency response crews was cruel to those with missing relatives.”
― Steven Magee

“I am aware of two frauds in Florida: 1. The 2009 dangerous Desoto Solar Farm world media launch involving President Obama. 2. Withholding the known numbers of the dead bodies found and missing people reported in the hurricane Ian disaster in 2022.”
― Steven Magee

“The police withholding public records that are requested is a form of fraud they engage in with the masses.”
― Steven Magee

“The police withholding public records from their victim is a form of abuse they engage in.”
― Steven Magee

“Internal affairs are adept at withholding police video recordings that show police officer misconduct.”
― Steven Magee