It is difficult to preach, this morality of mediocrity! It may never admit what it is and what it wants! It must… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I don't want to hear again from the attorney general or anyone on this floor that this government has shown it can… — Russ Feingold Copy Share Image
The long fight to save wild beauty represents democracy at its best. It requires citizens to practice the hardest of virtues--self-restraint. Why… — Edwin Way Teale Copy Share Image
It is the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the… — Walter Scott 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 reins of government have been so long slackened, that I fear the people will not quietly submit to those restraints which… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
No growth without resistance. No action without reaction. No desire without restraint. — Li Mu Copy Share Image
If I have a look around at the moment I feel great relief because finally others are entering the limelight. Men like… — Jude Law Copy Share Image
The United States must not adopt the tactics of the enemy. Means are important, as ends. Crisis makes it tempting to ignore… — Frank Church Copy Share Image
After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the… — Barbara Deming Copy Share Image
If you look at the end of the movie [Monsegnor Lahzar], I give a lot of space to what the spectator can… — Philippe Falardeau Copy Share Image
Great coaches do not tell people what to think. They point people in the right direction to find the answers. This self-restraint… — Thomas G. Bandy Copy Share Image
Self confidence is the ability to exercise restraint in the face of disrespect and still show respect in response. — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
No matter what happens, you will always be Pack. Because you have that loyalty and restraint. Not human, not whatever, but Kate.… — Ilona Andrews 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
“We are what we are, Nial, neither as good or as evil as others paint us. And what we are doesn't change… — Melissa Marr Copy Share Image
As long as the artist invents and is inspired, he remains in a constrained state of mind, at least for the purpose… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
One nation is to another what one individual is to another; with this melancholy distinction perhaps, that the former with fewer of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
'Wiseguy' for its time was good. It was really good. And it holds up still. But a lot of the restraints have… — Jonathan Banks Copy Share Image
The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without… — J. Irwin Miller Copy Share Image
'Children, don't speak so coarsely,' said Mr Webster, who had a vague notion that some supervision should be exercised over his daughters'… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
If you’re too stupid to understand that a philosophy that favors a federally structured republic, with numerous restraints on the scope and… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
The only difference between an artist and a lunatic is, perhaps, that the artist has the restraint or courtesy to conceal the… — Osbert Sitwell Copy Share Image
