Restrained Quotes

112 quotes by 95 authors

The sea does not like to be restrained. — Rick Riordan
He picked up the skull and knocked an onion ring out of its eye socket. "I see Sophie has been busy again. Couldn't you have… — Diana Wynne Jones
A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely… — Mao Zedong
There hung about her the restrained energy of a whiplash. — Agatha Christie
I dropped all the guards. All the leashes, all the chains, everything that ever restrained me through the discipline and fear of discovery, I let… — Ilona Andrews
To my everlasting relief, heâ€™d also stopped with the starch a few years back . The military made him big on spray starch, but I… — Lilith Saintcrow
It doesnâ€™t matter how many years go by, how much therapy I embark on, how much I try to achieve that elusive thing known as… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be… — Albert Einstein
she was aware of his love - how could she not? She perceived it every time he looked at her. He was not demonstrative, but… — Cecilia Dart-Thornton
I miss the Stella girls telling me what I am. That I'm sweet and placid and accommodating and loyal and nonthreatening and good to have… — Melina Marchetta
â€¦ he remained restrained and strangely composed. It was a composure born of extreme provocation. It stemmed from a lucidity that lies beyond rage. — Arundhati Roy
Even the sober desire for progress is sustained by faithâ€”faith in the intrinsic goodness of human nature and in the omnipotence of science. It is… — Eric Hoffer
Between the Great Depression and the 1970s, private business was viewed with suspicion even in most capitalist economies. Businesses were, so the story goes, seen… — Ha-Joon Chang
She tried to act as though it were nothing to go to the library alone. But her happiness betrayed her. Her smile could not be… — Maud Hart Lovelace
I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor… — Veronica Roth
Thatâ€™s the one nice thing about being a dork about men: you can sometimes play it off as restrained and classy. — Mindy Kaling
I, also, would like to look and smile, sit and walk like that, so free, so worthy, so restrained, so candid, so childlike and mysterious.… — Hermann Hesse
Peace is restrained; this is free. — Veronica Roth
Charley talking to Cookie â€˜'You know those women in nursing homes that have to be restrained around the clock because they mix up everyones medication… — Darynda Jones
Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it. — Seneca the Younger

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