Restraint Quotes

361 Restraint quotes by 286 unique authors

Do you deny it?" Grimani persisted. Deny it? Only the greatest self-restraint prevents me from laughing it out of countenance. — Kate Ross
We all move uneasily within our restraints. — Kay Redfield Jamison
You have the blood of warriors in your veins. The kind of men who protect what is theirs and love without restraint. I want that… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Man, wow, there's so many things to do, so many things to write! How to even begin to get it all down and without modified… — Jack Kerouac
Remember that even in war there is a time for restraint. A time to hold back your sword. — Suzanne Collins
The first time I kissed you, you had just cut off your hair with a plastic knife. You were in restraints and your lips were… — Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Dining partners, regardless of gender, social standing, or the years they've lived, should be chosen for their ability to eat - and drink! - with… — M.F.K. Fisher
There can be no reproach to pain unless we assume human dignity, there is no reason for restraints on pleasure unless we assume human worth,… — Ravi Zacharias
I like my human experience served up with a little silence and restraint. Silence makes experience go further and, when it does die, gives it… — Djuna Barnes
The thing about champagne,you say, unfoiling the cork, unwinding the wire restraint, is that is the ultimate associative object. Every time you open a bottle… — David Levithan
Touch. It is touch that is the deadliest enemy of chastity, loyalty, monogamy, gentility with its codes and conventions and restraints. By touch we are… — Wallace Stegner
Many animals experience pain, anxiety and suffering, physically and psychologically, when they are held in captivity or subjected to starvation, social isolation, physical restraint, or… — Marc Bekoff
Getting a lecture on restraint from the woman who threw a hissy fit and blew up Babylon. — Ilona Andrews
Hornergy' is Zen's term for the indomitable athletic edge powered by sexual restraint. The basketball, baseball and football teams haven't had a winning season in… — Megan McCafferty
that was the plan? part of it, you don't wan tot know the rest. i believe the word 'these dog colllars would make excellent restraints'… — Michele Jaffe
Love is influenced by no consideration, recognizes no restraints of reason, and is of the same nature as death, that assails alike the lofty palaces… — Miguel de Cervantes
Jacob was hardly in need of any physical protection I could offer. But my arms, pinned beneath Edward's, yearned to reach out to him. To… — Stephenie Meyer
What is pertinent is the calmness of that beauty, its sense of restraint. — Kazuo Ishiguro
To give freedom is still more easy. It is not necessary to guide; it only requires to let go the rein. But to form a… — Edmund Burke
God's command to have dominion over every living thing is a call to service, a test of responsibility, a rule of love, a cooperation with… — Hugh Nibley

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