Curb Quotes
152 quotes by 144 authors
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What are the aspects of yourself that line up with the character? You magnify those, and the ones that don't match up you kind of…
— Jeff Bridges
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A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase…
— Fanny Burney
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And when neither their property nor honour is touched, the majority of men live content, and he has only to contend with the ambition of…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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He [the golfer] must have the courage to keep trying in the face of ill luck or disappointment, and timidity to appreciate and appraise the…
— Bobby Jones
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Childish fantasy, like the sheath over the bud, not only protects but curbs the terrible budding spirit, protects not only innocence from the world, but…
— Elizabeth Bowen
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Be easy on yourself. Have fun. Only hang around people that are positive and make you feel good. Anybody who doesn't make you feel good,…
— Amy Poehler
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The nicest thing about coaching is that one day you feel like you can play handball against a curb, and on other days you feel…
— Al McGuire
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O thou who passest through our valleys in Thy strength, curb thy fierce steeds, allay the heat That flames from their large nostrils! Thou, O…
— William Blake
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They can change every name in South Africa, but it won't change the fact that the government has failed to provide services or curb crime
— Connie Mulder
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The bleak truth is that, under normal conditions, most of North America and Europe are buried under about 1.5km of ice. This bitterly frigid climate…
— Philip K. Chapman
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A farmer's horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind. Like his master he is…
— Anthony Trollope
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I do try and curb my mouth, but I find it really hard. I wonder how many jobs I've talked myself out of!
— Anna Chancellor
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I wouldn't want the pressure of a Six Feet Under or the pressure of improvising like Curb Your Enthusiasm.
— Robert Englund
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Skateboarding is not a hobby. And it is not a sport. Skateboarding is a way of learning how to redefine the world around you. For…
— Ian MacKaye
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Discipline is necessary to curb the mind, otherwise there is no peace.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Researchers at the Naval Postgraduate School have told us that the entire Arctic ice cap may totally disappear in summer in as little as five…
— Al Gore
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He who can curb his wrath as soon as it arises, as a timely antidote will check snake's venom that so quickly spreads, - such…
— Gautama Buddha
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The implied threat of using nuclear weapons to curb guerrillas was as absurd as to talk of using a sledge hammer to ward off a…
— B. H. Liddell Hart
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It was the Faith which gradually and indirectly transformed the slave into the serf, and the serf into the free peasant. . . . You…
— Hilaire Belloc
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Let’s start with the most prominent ecological crisis of our time: global warming. When you look seriously at the numbers, you find that switching from…
— T. Colin Campbell
Who Wrote These Curb Quotes
144 authors contributed a total of 152 Curb Quotes, led by these top contributors: