The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good. — Rufus Choate 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
“It is the restraint of patience that yields the magnificent in life.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Getting a lecture on restraint from the woman who threw a hissy fit and blew up Babylon. — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
Actors must practice restraint, else think what might happen in a love scene. — Cedric Hardwicke Copy Share Image
Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not… — James Forrestal Copy Share Image
Forcing yourself to use restricted means is the sort of restraint that liberates invention. It obliges you to make a kind of… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
He struggled with himself, too. I saw it -- I heard it. I saw the inconceivable mystery of a soul that knew… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Mr. Obama's choices show how fundamentally unserious he is about deficit reduction and spending restraint. — Monica Crowley Copy Share Image
I'm English and I'm used to coming from a world of period dramas, where there's a very polite restraint to everything. Everybody's… — Clive Owen Copy Share Image
Wise laws and just restraints are to a noble nation not chains, but chains of mail, -- strength and defense, though something… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I don't think I've ever heard anybody in this Regime counsel restraint and advise, "No backlash against cops. We must maintain the… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
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
“A disciplined mind (saiyamit mun), a disciplined body (saiyamit deha) and a disciplined speech (saiyamit vani), these three will not allow You… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I don't know about you, but moderation and restraint is not what I felt when I watched the twin towers crumble to… — Karl Rove Copy Share Image
Jacob was hardly in need of any physical protection I could offer. But my arms, pinned beneath Edward's, yearned to reach out… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
Restraint never ruins one's health. What ruins it,is not restraint but outward suppression. A really self-restrained person grows every day from strength… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Jay Townsend has offered, and I have accepted, his resignation from his position with my campaign. Now let's return to talking about… — Nan Hayworth Copy Share Image
Grant that I may become beautiful in my soul within, and that all my external possessions may be in harmony with my… — Plato Copy Share Image
I think we are trying to run the space age with horse and buggy moral and spiritual equipment. Technology you see has… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
The river is of the earth and it is free. It is rigorously embanked and bound, and yet it is free. To… — Wendell Berry 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
I was the last one to join the cast of the west Wing and when I started it was just a peripheral… — Martin Sheen 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
It is frequently said that speech that is intentionally provocative and therefore invites physical retaliation can be punished or suppressed. Yet, plainly… — Thomas I. Emerson Copy Share Image
Discovery is adventure. There is an eagerness, touched at times with tenseness, as man moves ahead into the unknown. Walking the wilderness… — William O. Douglas 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
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
