Restraint Quotes

361 Restraint quotes by 286 unique authors

There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the… — Van Wyck Brooks
I do not see any beauty in self-restraint. — Mary MacLane
I saw the government really using the excuse of a weak economy and a financial crisis to create more government and to push onto the… — Rob Portman
The pro-growth policies and spending restraint of Conservatives work. — Zach Wamp
One of the things we're taught as actors is restraint - don't jump off the cliff. — Ted Lange
By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will… — Propertius
Try to gather the strength to live as brother and sister after one or two children are born. This is essential for reaping the full… — Mata Amritanandamayi
The story of man is the history, first, of the acceptance and imposition of restraints necessary to permit communal life; and second, of the emancipation… — Abe Fortas
An active propaganda machinery controlled bv the world's largest corporations constantly reassures us that consumerism is the path to happiness, governmental restraint of market excess… — David Korten
I'll tell you where the injustice is. It's with the person earning £12,000 to £15,000-a-year who is being asked to be restrained by their business… — Prince Andrew
There are the further difficulties of building a population out of a diversity of races, each at a different stage of cultural evolution, some in… — Arthur Keith
And if thought and emotion can persist in this way so long after the brain that sent them forth has crumpled into dust, how vitally… — Algernon Blackwood
When you think back to your first kiss, your hair is perfect and she was wearing a cool outfit. We remember it with restraint and… — Stephen Chbosky
After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint… — Barbara Deming
Give us a chance to show you that those so-called protective laws to aid women - however well intentioned originally - have become in fact… — Martha Griffiths
A lot of cop shows, because they have the restraints of having a new case every episode, the victims often become these kind of nameless,… — Mireille Enos
The most challenging part of being a dad is self-restraint. So often your instinct is to teach and tell. I am constantly reminding myself to… — Michael Chiklis
There is, indeed, a most dangerous passage in the history of a democratic people. When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Fasting is futile unless it is accompanied by an incessant longing for self-restraint. — Mahatma Gandhi
Restraint never ruins one's health. What ruins it,is not restraint but outward suppression. A really self-restrained person grows every day from strength to strength and… — Mahatma Gandhi
Grant that I may become beautiful in my soul within, and that all my external possessions may be in harmony with my inner self. May… — Plato
When a painter is working he is aware of the means which are available to him - these include his materials, the style he inherits,… — John Berger
The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good. — Rufus Choate
We learned from Gauguin that every work of art is a transposition, a caricature, a passionate equivalent of a sensation which has been experienced. He… — Maurice Denis
Too many members of Congress are too involved in grabbing what they can for their states or districts without enough emphasis on overall fiscal restraint… — John Ensign

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