Restraint Quotes

Getting a lecture on restraint from the woman who threw a hissy fit and blew up Babylon.

Where would anyone in publicity be if they allowed sensitivity, restraint, breeding or good taste to stand in their way?

It is only rogues who feel the restraints of law.

In our time the only restraint left is self-retraint.

[Louis] Brandeis is often painted as an acolyte of judicial restraint, or the view that judges should uphold laws whether or not they like them.

Self-government requires qualities of self-denial and restraint.

Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.

The man who says to one, go, and he goeth, and to another, come, and he cometh, has, in most cases, more sense of restraint and difficulty than the man who obeys him.

...Local prohibitions cannot block advances in military and commercial technology... Democratic movements for local restraint can only restrain the world's democracies, not the world as a whole.

Sense (for a particular art, science, human being, and so forth) is divided spirit; self-restraint is consequently the result of self-creation and self-destruction.

We all move uneasily within our restraints.

For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality.

Addressing global resentment cannot be put off. If we do not learn to use our predominant power with great restraint, we will antagonize the world.

Restraint is the golden rule of enjoyment.

No man can possibly improve in any company for which he has not respect enough to be under some degree of restraint.

In this age when there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war; we must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint.

Birth-control through self-restraint is the most desirable, sensible and totally harmless method.

The one condition for fighting for peace and liberty is to acquire self-restraint.

All the four stages in a man's life are devised by the seers in Hinduism for imposing discipline and self-restraint.

When all choices seem wrong, choose restraint.

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 listen to them.

I am a soldier and accustomed to risking my life every day. I am full of the fire of youth; I cannot act with the restraint of an accomplished diplomat.

The more seriously we understand the radical nature of sin, the more it exercises a restraint upon us.

Bounds should be set To ingenuity for being so cruel In bringing change unheralded on the unready.

I don't think I've ever heard anybody in this Regime counsel restraint and advise, "No backlash against cops. We must maintain the order."

...ambition without pious restraint must end in failure, often involving in its ruin that beautiful reverence which solaces common men for the obscurity and poverty of their lot.

It's tough. It's very tricky to throw a morally flexible character onto the screen and have an audience empathize. It's always an exercise in restraint.

I had no way of knowing where it began or where it ended. Only that it flowed without restraint.

I'm obviously younger, much better looking [then Jeorge W.Bush].He didn't veto things, he didn't bring order and fiscal restraint.

The atom cannot disobey the law. Whether it is the mental or the physical atom, it must obey the law. "What is the use of [external restraint]?"

Dedication to goodness-dedication in response to an inner moral mandate rather than external restraint-was both the antidote to the pain and the source of great happiness.

One of the things we're taught as actors is restraint - don't jump off the cliff.

Great coaches do not tell people what to think. They point people in the right direction to find the answers. This self-restraint is one of the most difficult challenges of leadership.

Printers shall be liable to legal prosecution for printing and publishing false facts injurious to the party prosecuting: but they shall be under no other restraint.

I have always had an interest in performers who play against the most obvious of expectations and are able to find something secret, something withheld, and some level of restraint.

It is the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the humour of each displays itself, without ceremony or restraint.

Exercise humility and restraint.

Fashion is a great restraint upon your persons of taste and fancy; who would otherwise in the most trifling instances be able to distinguish themselves from the vulgar.

I appreciate a songwriter like Morrissey with so much restraint.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

It does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants

Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power.

Just as the earth that bears the man who tills and digs it, to bear those who speak ill of them, is a quality of the highest respect.

When you give yourself to me, completely, I will bite you. Until then, my love, I will only nibble on you.”~Cole

Dreams are ideas where the collar has been removed and the leash has been thrown away.

Her husband seemed to her now like a person whom she had married without love as an excuse.

When you take the high road you will see things that some people can't.

Of course I contradict myself. Why else would hold things in and put the fire out?

Greatness untethered from God results in calamity unrestrained by men.

Of course I contradict myself. Why else would I hold things in and put the fire out?