No growth without resistance. No action without reaction. No desire without restraint. — Li Mu Copy Share Image
“Politics of abundance, by contrast, arise from an ethic of measured restraint.” — Mary Christina Wood Copy Share Image
To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“It is hard to remain iconoclastic when standing waist-deep in the shards of smashed icons.” — George will Copy Share Image
The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint. — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
Elegance is something more than ease; it is more than a freedom from awkwardness or restraint. It implies, I conceive, a precision,… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Just laws are no restraint upon the freedom of the good, for the good man desires nothing which a just law will… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
Bounds should be set To ingenuity for being so cruel In bringing change unheralded on the unready. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“A man without equals is a dangerous man indeed. He must exercise the most difficult of attributes, restraint.” — Daniel McHugh Copy Share Image
The Negro cannot count forever on the kind of restraint that's thus far left him free to clog the streets, disrupt traffic,… — Jesse Helms Copy Share Image
For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality. — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“Purpose gives rise to discipline, restraint, and self-control, which are crucial, fundamental tools for success in the journey of life.” — Pedro Okoro Copy Share Image
“Some problems were generational; you just had to wait for the relevant elders to die off and be replaced with more progressive… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
The place where we don't agree is on whether there should be some restraint on insurance companies and whether they should be… — David Axelrod Copy Share Image
“Robert believed in restraint. He made it a point not to emulate his father. He refused to be the kind of man… — Courtney Milan Copy Share Image
The love of power, like the love of money, increases with the possession of it; and we know in what ruin these… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
I didn't want the film to be didactic, and this is tough because if you look at the list of issues, you… — Philippe Falardeau Copy Share Image
Hornergy' is Zen's term for the indomitable athletic edge powered by sexual restraint. The basketball, baseball and football teams haven't had a… — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
“Saiyam parinaam (a resultant state that is free of anger-pride-deceit-greed, attachment and abhorrence) means a state where both, Atma parinaam (the result… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Considering the great importance to the public liberty of the freedom of the press, and the difficulty of submitting it to very… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The first and most important thing is to remain free, free in each line you undertake, in your ideas and in your… — Hans Hartung Copy Share Image
“Where saiyam (a state free of anger-pride-deceit-greed, attachment and abhorrence) does not leave a clear impression, there the vitaraag dharma (the religion… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
There is no governor anywhere. You are all absolutely free. There is no restraint that cannot be escaped. If anybody could go… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
The idea of freedom can never be disassociated from real Prussia. The real Prussian spirit means a synthesis between restraint and freedom,… — Henning von Tresckow Copy Share Image
There must be a law if there is to be liberty. Try to play a piano and you will run into laws… — Adrian Rogers Copy Share Image
Human rights and international criminal law both illustrate the contradictory potential of international law. On one level, the imposition of human rights… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
“Other folk thought the Rage was simple bloodlust, a berserk savagery that neither knew nor cared what its target was, and so… — David Weber Copy Share Image
There are many objects of desire, and therefore many desires. Some are born with us, hunger, yearning, and pride of place, and… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
All life is an experiment. Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Sometimes nothing is the hardest thing to do. - Tyrrion Lannister” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
If judicial review means anything, it is that judicial restraint does not allow everything. — Don Willett Copy Share Image
“Oh how can we, scarce mastering our passions, expect that youth should keep itself in check?” — Friedrich von Schiller Copy Share Image
To choose evil is to choose freedom, emancipation from all restraint. — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image