Quotes of: Restraining Keyword

It is easier to abstain than to restrain.

French

Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

William Blake

The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.

Patrick Henry

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

The only thing that restrains you is , Anton Gorodetsky. For yourself, or for people—that's not important. But we are restrained by . And that is why we observe the Treaty.

Day Watch

I restrain myself from following orders—especially restraining orders. I’d like to remind my dad that my love is longer than 500 feet.

Xazaqazax

We are feeble, weak and impoverished because of our failure to pray. God is restrained in doing because we are restrained by reason of our non-praying. All failures in securing heaven are traceable to lack of prayer or misdirected petition.

Edward McKendree Bounds

For me, style is essentially doing things well. If you want to be outrageous, be outrageous with style. If you want to be restrained, be restrained with style. One can't specifically define style. It's like the perfume to a flower. It's a quality you...

Francoise Gilot

Patience means restraining one's inclinations.

Tokugawa Ieyasu

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

Henry A. Kissinger

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.

Thomas Huxley

A person in my position has to restrain himself.

Vin Diesel

If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good.

Morris Raphael Cohen

Not exactly hit them, but I've restrained a few people.

Chuck Zito

The sea does not like to be restrained.

The Lightning Thief

Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

You balance the budget by restraining the growth of government and encouraging the growth of the private sector.

Mitt Romney

In my life, the strongest evidence of any fandom is 'Sherlock' - 'Hobbit' fans are positively restrained.

Martin Freeman

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness.

Mary Ritter Beard