What is hell other than a realm in which unholiness works without restraint in body and soul? — Abraham Kuyper Copy Share Image
It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Sexual self-restraint was only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution. — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
More caution and perhaps more restraint are necessary in breaking a fast than in keeping it. — Mahatma Gandhi 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
“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
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
Some of the most frantic lies on the face of life are told with modesty and restraint; for the simple reason that… — Gilbert K. Chesterton 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 choice of evil is given, so that restraint could be taught and practiced, and a higher level of enlightment could be… — QJ Copy Share Image
Freedom is not only the absence of external restraints. It is also the absence of irresistible internal compulsions, unmanageable passion, and uncensorable… — George Will Copy Share Image
Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
The difference between a stable society and an unstable one is that the restraints in an unstable one are external. In a… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
One of the litmus tests for judicial conservatism is the idea of judicial restraint - that courts should give substantial deference to… — Jeff Greenfield Copy Share Image
It's interesting that at a time when she could have differentiated herself from the ranks of [Democratic National Committee Chairman] Howard Dean… — Brian Jones Copy Share Image
“What is the measure of the fact that one has realized One's own state as the Self (nijswaroop)? It is in accordance… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
...Local prohibitions cannot block advances in military and commercial technology... Democratic movements for local restraint can only restrain the world's democracies, not… — K. Eric Drexler Copy Share Image
It is not unfrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole tenor of their… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
“Saiyam (a state free of anger-pride-deceit-greed, attachment and abhorrence) cannot be attained through egoism. Renunciation can take place through egoism. In renouncing,… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I come out of the environment of the Deep South, where I had seen the millstone of racial discrimination weighting down my… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
The framers of our Constitution understood the dangers of unbridled government surveillance. They knew that democracy could flourish only in spaces free… — Elizabeth Holtzman Copy Share Image
“I'm sorry I was short with him--but I don't like a man to approach me telling me it for my sake. "Maybe… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The most degrading of human passions is the fear of death. It tears away the restraints and the conventions which alone make… — Gertrude Bell Copy Share Image
I am a thing not new, I am as old As human nature. I am that which lurks, Ready to spring whenever… — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
Now, nakedness is a delightful condition. And it keeps you very pleasantly cool - especially, I suppose, if you happen to be… — Colin Fletcher Copy Share Image
Celebration... is self restraint, is attentiveness, is questioning, is meditating, is awaiting, is the step over into the more wakeful glimpse of… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
The prohibition is general. No clause in the Constitution could by any rule of construction be conceived to give to Congress a… — William Rawle Copy Share Image
It dawned upon me that fasting could be made as powerful a weapon of indulgence as of restraint — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A people unused to restraint must be led, they will not be drove. — George Washington Copy Share Image
“Control is an illusion, as is restraint. Dark to light, light to darkness.” — Truth Devour Copy Share Image
The one condition for fighting for peace and liberty is to acquire self-restraint. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Come, let’s be calm: no one incapable of restraint was ever a writer. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
We can't have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint. — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image