Restrained Quotes

112 quotes by 95 authors

The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language. — Robert Fripp
Five or six hundred [aristocratic] heads lopped off would have assured you repose and happiness; a false humanity has restrained your arm and suspended your… — Jean-Paul Marat
Not exactly hit them, but I've restrained a few people. — Chuck Zito
Government spending is being restrained, the economy is making progress and moving forward, and the pro-growth, tax cutting policies put in place have allowed businesses… — Bill Shuster
A Mormon is a man that has the bad taste and the religion to do what a good many other people are restrained from doing… — Finley Peter Dunne
To scatter praise or blame without regard to justice is to destroy the distinction of good and evil. Many have no other test of actions… — Samuel Johnson
I have never feared that the revolution would be engendered by the universities; but that at them a whole generation of revolutionaries must be formed,… — Klemens von Metternich
Every wave of passion restrained is a balance in your favor. It is therefore good policy not to return anger for anger, as with all… — Swami Vivekananda
Let's borrow life preservers and jump over. I think we should do something spectacular. I feel that all our lives have been too restrained. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I sometimes ponder on variation form and it seems to me it ought to be more restrained, purer. — Johannes Brahms
The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments. — George Mason
Life is livable because we know that wherever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions towards us by… — Havelock Ellis
One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness — Miriam
We, the People of this country, have no unalienable rights... all our rights are subject to modification... the Constitution of the United States of America… — Alan Dershowitz
Not surprisingly, the federal judiciary nearly always rules in favor of the federal government. Judicial review, contrary to the assurances of its advocates, has hardly… — Joseph Sobran
I am entirely persuaded that the American public is more reasonable, restrained and mature than most of the broadcast industry's planners believe. Their fear of… — Edward R. Murrow
The only thing that restrains you is fear, Anton Gorodetsky. For yourself, or for people - that's not important. But we are restrained by horror.… — Sergei Lukyanenko
The suppression of unnecessary offices, of useless establishments and expenses enabled us to discontinue our internal taxes. These covering our land with officers, and opening… — Thomas Jefferson
The day of my departure at length arrived. Clerval spent the last evening with us. He had endeavoured to persuade his father to permit him… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Except when physically restrained, a person is least free or dignified when he is under threat of punishment, and unfortunately most people often are. — B.F. Skinner

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