Restrained Quotes

112 quotes by 95 authors

Our tenet ever was . . . that Congress had not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but were restrained to those specifically… — Thomas Jefferson
A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to… — Jimmy Carter
The idea that we industrialized humans are immune to the natural laws that have restrained growth in other species-and humans in past social regimes-is to… — Richard Heinberg
[About the great synthesis of atomic physics in the 1920s:] It was a heroic time. It was not the doing of any one man; it… — J. Robert Oppenheimer
I have wanted . . . to commit a murder myself. I recognized this as the desire of the artist to express himself! . .… — Agatha Christie
It is not that women are really smaller-minded, weaker-minded, more timid and vacillating, but that whosoever, man or woman, lives always in a small, dark… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
If the image was sketched onto the canvas and spontaneously drawn, colour would often be restrained and unfree... The most important and the most difficult… — Asger Jorn
Each moment is a moment of choice ~ a time to leave the old, the limited, the restrained, and the contracted for the new, the… — Gary Zukav
Dance releases energy mobilized by the fight-or-flight stress response that was otherwise restrained. — Judith Lynne Hanna
Marching thus at night, a battalion is doubly impressive. The silent monster is full of restrained power; resolute in its onward sweep, impervious to danger,… — Patrick MacGill
To make sense of this view (design as opposed to accident), one must accept the idea of transcendence: that the Designer exists in a totally… — George F. R. Ellis
Those who have little interest in spirituality shouldnâ€™t think that human inner values donâ€™t apply to you. The inner peace of an alert and calm… — Dalai Lama
The Second World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences between the Fascists and the political Zionists. This war must be brought… — Albert Pike
It's not subtle or restrained. It's not any of the things you like to think apply to your acting. — Margaret Hamilton
Christian mothers, if only you knew the future of distress and peril, of shame ill-restrained, that you prepare for your sons and daughters in imprudently… — Pope Pius XII
Populism is the simple premise that markets need to be restrained by society and by a democratic political system. We are not socialists or communists,… — Molly Ivins
Plants and animals repeat routine, but men who are not restrained will go into the future like explorers into a new country. — Rose Wilder Lane
I am now a fundamentalist American; give me time and I will tell you why individualism, laissez-faire and the slightly restrained anarchy of capitalism offer… — Rose Wilder Lane
From my point of view, he can be called a remarkable man who stands out from those around him by the resourcefulness of his mind,… — G I Gurdjieff
I think Dario Ringach is a poster boy for the concept that the use of force or the threat of force is an effective means… — Jerry Vlasak

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