“The world needs someone they can admire from a distance; from a very far distance.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
What is pertinent is the calmness of that beauty, its sense of restraint. — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
Falling in love makes smoking pot all day look like the ultimate in restraint. — Dave Sim Copy Share Image
Before buying anything, it is well to ask if one could do without it. — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character. — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good. — Rufus Choate Copy Share Image
“I have long held that judicial restraint, expressed through a well-reasoned rejection, is at times the most efficient form of justice; preserving… — Henrietta Newton Martin-Legal Professional & Author Copy Share Image
Being bridled, or yielding obediently to restraint, is necessary for our personal growth and progression. — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
What is pertinent is the calmness of beauty, its sense of restraint. It is as though the land knows of its own… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
Self-restraint may be alien to the human temperament, but humanity without restraint will dig its own grave. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
“Liberation can only be attained through saiyam parinaam (a resultant state free of anger-pride-deceit-greed, attachment and abhorrence).” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Dedication to goodness-dedication in response to an inner moral mandate rather than external restraint-was both the antidote to the pain and the… — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by gold, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The vocabulary and manner of classical ballet express a high order of discipline and restraint, a sense of harmony with forces larger… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you want to become a man of letters and perhaps write some Histories one day, you must also lie and invent… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The United States has faced threats from criminal groups, from terrorists, from spies throughout our history, and we have limited our responses.… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
In civic life, I think that's where you can debate what is good taste and what is acceptable to other people, and… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Whatever the occasion, do not neglect alcohol. No other refreshment will do. Yes, alcohol kills brain cells, but it's very selective. It… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
When a painter is working he is aware of the means which are available to him - these include his materials, the… — John Berger Copy Share Image
I developed the concept of the Happy Warrior as a rallying cry for those of us who want to restore America to… — Monica Crowley Copy Share Image
“What is saiyam parinaam? It is when the Self (Atma) does not become one in with the non-Self (pudgal); It continues to… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The calculated killing of a human being by the state involves, by its very nature, an absolute denial of the executed person's… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
I will begin with what in my opinion is your lack of restraint. You are like a spectator in a theatre who… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
People who do not know the Bible well have been gulled into thinking it is a good guide to morality. This mistaken… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Quiet, moving, masterfully crafted. Such are the nine stories in Venus in the Afternoon. Tehila Lieberman writes with precision, restraint, with a… — Miroslav Penkov Copy Share Image
The Church's stand on birth control is the most absolutely spiritual of all her stands and with all of us being materialists… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“of the growth of self-restraint. A starting point for Elias’s analysis was medieval treatises on polite manners such as the book On… — Nicholas Wade Copy Share Image
Combining the experience of a seasoned university president with the analysis of a respected legal scholar, Derek Bok explores what he concludes… — Frank H. T. Rhodes Copy Share Image
“[O]ne may properly look closely at any proposed new "freedom" from restraint or convention in order to learn what if any personal… — J. Reuben Clark Jr Copy Share Image
If the general attitude of Canadians toward their mighty neighbor to the south could be distilled into a single phrase, that phrase… — Bruce McCall Copy Share Image
One of the things we're taught as actors is restraint - don't jump off the cliff. — Ted Lange Copy Share Image
The emergence of consciousness, like the unfolding of a leaf, relies upon restraint. — Peter Atkins Copy Share Image
“Her husband seemed to her now like a person whom she had married without love as an excuse.” — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
An element of abstention, of restraint, must enter into all finer joys. — Vida Dutton Scudder Copy Share Image
“It is the restraint of patience that yields the magnificent in life.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“For any happiness, even in this world, quite a lot of restraint is going to be necessary...” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image