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Fear of failure held me back from being a DIYer for many years, especially after a few early attempts at home improvement projects went awry. — Mark Frauenfelder

You could see just a trace of the daughter there, the way she held her shoulders back, the length of her neck. It was a crime what time did to women. — Ann Patchett

I could be held back just by being needed. Please try not to need me. That's the worst bait of all to a lonely man. — John Steinbeck

Now that I think about it, maybe my own literary exploration of the dark secrets held by families could be traced back to V.C. Andrews. — Alafair Burke

Still, I held my right hand ready to cast a spell in case arts-and-craft hour suddenly ended and they went back to Killing 101. — Devon Monk

Tell it fast before you get scared and silence yourself. You'll never wish you'd held back a little more. — Catherynne M Valente

You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses. — Rachel Griffiths

Twas something else. I had come to hate her, you see. I had come to wish her dead, and that was what held me back. — Stephen King

If you want to be financially-free, you need to become a different person than you are today and let go of whatever has held you back in the past. — Robert Kiyosaki

An answering smile drifted across his tanned face. What is mine, I intend to
keep. — Judith McNaught

At the same time, we held back. Because she was different. Different. We had no one to compare her to, no one to measure her against. — Jerry Spinelli

No-one has held back. They have put some definition around the numbers and now we have to wait for the reality. — Joseph Stanislaw

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. — Norman Vincent Peale

I refuse to be held responsible for bringing back a wave of pasty-faced people into the world. — Brian Molko

We go forward with our heads held high, but look back and remember where we come from. — Michael Hudson

my worst held-back secrets: everything has to do with loving and not loving. This night will pass. Then we have work to do. — Jalaluddin Rumi

There was no limit to what one man might do, if he gave all, and held back nothing. — Lois McMaster Bujold

Outside of traffic, there is nothing that has held this country back as much as committees. — Will Rogers

We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present. — Marianne Williamson

Voldemort held up a large white hand, and Yaxley subsided at once, watching resentfully as Voldemort turned back to Snape. — J.K. Rowling

Has fear ever held a man back from anything he really wanted? — George Bernard Shaw

She still held back her tears, as if subjecting herself to some terrible endurance test. — Carsten Jensen

And looking back, Ruby knew this was when it started; the slow unraveling of all that she had held as sure and true. — Anna Lawrence Pietroni

I knew words were like chains, they held me back ... the act of description taints the description. — John Fowles

There's no need for us to be held back by the past or how things have been so far. The important thing is what seeds we are sowing now for the future. — Daisaku Ikeda

As you can see, I am immersing myself in color-I've held back from that until now; and I don't regret it. — Vincent Van Gogh

There are examples of ex-presidents speaking out. Jimmy Carter has not held back on a variety of issues. Harry Truman didn't. — Robert Dallek

I missed nine years. With trembling hands, he held me, his anguish apparent, and I could hold back no longer. — A.L. Jackson

Sheffield had decided, centuries back, that the saddest thing about ephemerals was that their little lives rarely held time enough for love.) "Oh, — Robert A. Heinlein

Look at the blue of the sky and tell me why you held back. Did you think there would one day be a bluer sky and a better hour? — Morrissey

She was the opposite of cool; she held nothing back. — Jerry Spinelli

I didn't learn how to read until I was at the end of fifth grade and 11 years old and held back. — Philip Schultz

Your dreams change. Initially the belly-buttons help establish the dreamer's predicament - the situation you are trapped in or held back by. — Rodger Kamenetz

We were badly held back not just by the technology, but by the culture of journalism. — Ezra Klein

One day I'll be appreciated for what I do instead being held back for what I don't do. — Burnell Taylor

As far back as I can remember, the radio held a special fascination for me. — Charley Pride

I held my arm out in front of me and twisted it back and forth. Palm up. Palm down. Now you look fractured. Now you look whole. — Leila Sales

I learned to change my accent; in England, your accent identifies you very strongly with a class, and I did not want to be held back. — Sting

The great liberation of imaginative writing is that you're not held back by the facts. — Gerald Vizenor

I have always felt a little held back by working with other people in recording. — Brian Chippendale

An infinite number of things in the universe are held back from you only by your altitude and attitude. — David Allen

A dreamer, I walked enchanted, and nothing held me back. — Daphne Du Maurier

How absurd it would be if the further development of the menagerie itself would be held back by self-inflicted wounds! — Anonymous

The Italian economy has been held back for decades. — Mario Monti

Grief held back from the lips wears at the heart; the drop that refused to join the river dried up in the dust. — Adrienne Rich

No man can bare his heart quite naked; there always will be something held back, something false ostentatiously thrust forward. — Charles Baudelaire

11 I will teach you wisdom's ways and lead you in straight paths. 12 When you walk, you won't be held back; — Anonymous

Suicide crossed my mind often, but I always held back. — E.L. James

Mimi didn't care about secrecy. She led a proclaimed life, and once she got talking she held back nothing. — Saul Bellow

Don't let anyone hold you back.
Decide that you will not be held back by anyone for any reason. Life is a forward moving force! — Michelle Word Hollis

To pine for the days before public education became a practical reality is to pine for an America held back by mass ignorance and mass illiteracy. — Timothy Noah

Back pocket Richie took a flattened can which had once held Del Monte pineapple chunks. There was a ragged hole about two inches in diameter through — Stephen King

I can help you, Jorge. I can give you back your self. I can give you your will.' He held out his hand, palm open. 'Free will has to be taken,' I said. — Mark Lawrence

The energy within you is stronger than ever for being held back, compressed, and said No to ... — Henri Matisse

For a long time, I didn't give anything my all. I was so afraid that I'd be crap, so I held myself back. — Rufus Sewell

I held my head back and looked upward. The moon was hidden and only a lone star dared to break through the darkness. — Nancy B. Brewer

I spent some time back in Mexico at 16 because my parents thought it would be prudent for me to learn Spanish, because I held a Mexican passport. — Lupita Nyong'o

I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little. — Dan O'Brien

I held Star close before I departed. "If I don't come back," I told her, "find a way to give everyone the plague. — Danielle Paige

For all their bitching about what's holding them back, most people have a lot of trouble coming up with the defined dreams they're being held from. — Timothy Ferriss

Surely if we knew what bitterness fate held in store, we would shrink back in fear and let the cup of life pass us by untasted. — Jacqueline Carey

Painting or poetry is made as one makes love - a total embrace, prudence thrown to the winds, nothing held back. — Joan Miro

Whether you can go back in time is held in the grip of the law of quantum gravity. — Kip Thorne

So much of what holds us back in life are the long-held resentments stemming from childhood. — Gabrielle Bernstein

The Ottoman Empire was in decline, held back from modernization by a conservative Muslim priesthood. — Ken Follett

The hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

All of the secrets the vampires held dear have been exposed, and the humans can now fight back as equals in a way, which is scary. — Deborah Ann Woll

Troy went into debt and bought his new equipment because he didn't want to be held back by demanding circumstances. — Wendell Berry

But something held me back. Perhaps I was stopped by that level of feeling, deeper than thought, which contains the truth. — John Knowles

Of course, I want to look good, as that helped me get jobs. But it didn't get me the jobs I wanted and it held me back. — Rufus Sewell

She held his hand and did not look down nor back. — Robin Hobb

Had I been scared that whole time? Had I held myself back from doing things because I was afraid? — C.D. Reiss

You can only be held back by your past if you use it to reject yourself in the present. Your — Robert Holden

Are you going to teach me about make-up sex?"
He shook his head. "I'm going to show you what it means to be mine, with nothing held back. — Kit Rocha

We emerge from our Cloud of Ambiguity when we are ready or willing to let go of what has held us back. — Lisa A. Mininni

I'm creating the kind of games that I like right now. I'm not being held back by technology. — John Romero

I don't think being black has held me back at all. Being black makes you strong. — Anita Baker

He ran his hands through his hair and held on to the back of his neck both biceps bulging. Dang him for looking so hot when I wanted to run away — Jennifer Echols

He held his hands tightly together and cursed his daughter for bringing the terrible world, with its humiliation and longing, back to his door. — Maile Meloy

Wayne held back a smile, tucking it into his pocket for later use. — Brandon Sanderson

Stories are not like the real world; they aren't held back by what we know is false or true. What's important is how a story makes you feel inside. — Tahir Shah

I must say, in the case of "Room," both the book and the film, I don't think being a lesbian author held me back at all. — Emma Donoghue

You were brought to where you are standing now because the decisions you took some time back have held you by your hands and dragged you this far. — Israelmore Ayivor

I raise up my voice-not so I can shout but so that those without a voice can be heard ... we cannot succeed when half of us are held back. — Malala Yousafzai

He held me back just enough so I could see his face, and his determined frown. You meant for this life.
With me. — Brodi Ashton

Lack of genius never held anyone back. Only time wasted on resentment and daydreaming can do that. — Dorothy Dunnett

I held her head to my shoulder, rocking her, rubbing her back. Poor thing, I don't think she know where to put the whole world. — Shannon Hale

I looked back at Constantine, and for a moment, his expression held a look of longing so fierce that it made me blink. — Anne Zoelle

Contrary to popular belief, we (millennials) can't be won back with hipper worship bands, fancy coffee shops, or pastors who wear skinny jeans. — Rachel Held Evans

I sold my soul, you brought it back for me. And held me up, and gave me dignity. — Anne Murray

The relentless pursuit of perfection has been my problem over the years. It's maybe held me back. — Ronnie O'Sullivan

Beckett pulled Blake's face back to look at him and held it in his hand.
Never alone, bro. You're never alone as long as I live. — Debra Anastasia