I like period drama because everyone is so restrained, but they have all these emotions raging underneath.
Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.
To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
No. No, I don’t want my hands restrained.” “Yes. You do.
The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.
The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment.
Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
If you find yourself desperate for money, you sometimes do whatever, but on the other hand, if you really want to be known as a certain type of actor, then you have to restrain yourself.
Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
He had the muscular definition of a man who had spent his life restraining elephants in heat.
A professional headshot in front of a bookshelf says you're an intellectual. A professional headshot peeking though a bookshelf says you're probably under a restraining order.
A learned man who doesn’t restrain his passions is like a blind man holding a torch, he guides others but not himself.
Desires collide; the wish to eat bumping up against the wish to be thin, the desire to indulge conflicting with the injunction to restrain. Small wonder food makes a woman nervous.
Thankfully, God's restraining grace keeps even the worst of us from being utterly depraved. The worst people who have ever lived could've been worse.
It's funny, people don't think of 'Cloverfield' as being restrained because it's a handycam movie, but the only reason it's a handycam movie is because that was supposed to be the reality of the situation.
One of the earliest institutions in every New England community was a pair of stocks. The first public building was a meeting-house, but often before any house of God was builded, the devil got his restraining engine.
Let us tell our legislators in advance, that this is a right, restraints on which, we will not, cannot bear; and that every attempt to restrain it is a palpable wrong on God and man.
No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.
It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas.
In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more mathematics.
