quotes about Restraint
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The hardest thing for me is restraint.
-- Alexandra Guarnaschelli -
But restraint is the only one sort of control, and absence of restraint isn't freedom. It's not control that's lacking when one feels 'free', but the objectionable control of force.
-- B. F. Skinner -
Things aren't right. If a burglar breaks into your home and you shoot him, he can sue you. For what, restraint of trade?
-- Bill Maher -
We tolerate, even promote, many things we once regarded as evil, wrong, or immoral. And then we seek "explanations" for an act that seems beyond comprehension. Remove societal restraints on some evils and one can expect the demons to be freed to conduct other evil acts.
-- Cal Thomas -
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Liberty has restraints but no frontiers.
-- David Lloyd GeorgeSource : International Liberal Conference, July 1928.
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Pour out the wine without restraint or stay, Pour not by cups, but by the bellyful, Pour out to all that wull.
-- Edmund Spenser -
such is the effect of true politeness, that it banishes all restraint and embarassment.
-- Fanny Burney -
Restraint is the better part of beauty.
-- Frances Gray Patton -
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To choose evil is to choose freedom, emancipation from all restraint.
-- Georges Bataille -
Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.
-- James Russell Lowell -
The only time the press doesn’t sensationalize information is when one of their own is kidnapped. Interesting how they show restraint then.
-- Jim Norton -
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Wiseguy for its time was good. It was really good. And it holds up still. But a lot of the restraints have been taken off now.
-- Jonathan Banks -
We all move uneasily within our restraints.
-- Kay Redfield Jamison -
People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them.
-- Louis-Ferdinand Celine -
I do not see any beauty in self-restraint.
-- Mary MacLaneSource : Mary MacLane (2014). “I Await the Devil's Coming: Annotated & Unexpurgated”, p.128, Petrarca Press
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When all choices seem wrong, choose restraint.
-- Matthew Woodring Stover -
The borrowers will always be willing to take a great deal for themselves. It’s up to the lenders to show restraint, and when they lose it, watch out.
-- Michael BurrySource : "Essential reading for science writers: The Big Short by Michael Lewis" by Mark Henderson, www.theguardian.com. April 17, 2012.
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Some wounds grow worse beneath the surgeon's hand; Better that they were not touched at all.
-- Ovid -
Vibrancy is only as effective as the mastering of restraint.
-- Sara Genn -
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I had no way of knowing where it began or where it ended. Only that it flowed without restraint.
-- Shin Kyung-sook -
The true nature of man left to himself without restraint is not nobility but savagery.
-- Steven JamesSource : Steven James (2013). “The King: The Bowers Files”, p.26, Penguin
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Remember that even in war there is a time for restraint. A time to hold back your sword.
-- Suzanne Collins -
The pro-growth policies and spending restraint of Conservatives work.
-- Zach Wamp -
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Either practice restraint or be prepared for crowding
-- Flannery O'Connor -
Wage restraint was helping businesses out and now it's not. Have we tipped over the edge? Maybe not, but the trend in wages is moving higher.
-- Greg Miller -
'Wiseguy' for its time was good. It was really good. And it holds up still. But a lot of the restraints have been taken off now.
-- Jonathan BanksSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Our character is determined by what we do if every restraint were removed.
-- Lettie Cowman -