Quotes of: Restrains Keyword

One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.

James K. Polk

Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.

Samuel Richardson

It is well to fetter the wings of our fancy and restrain its flights.

Edward E. Barnard

It's in the nature of television to restrain the spontaneity of a live event. Things become more and more prepackaged.

Bill Condon

There hung about her the restrained energy of a whiplash.

Dumb Witness

Noble self-restraint must have something to restrain.

The Greek Way

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Horace

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.

John Locke

I sometimes ponder on variation form and it seems to me it ought to be more restrained, purer.

Johannes Brahms

A rainbow looks good because the colours demonstrate restrain. Otherwise it would be an ugly blob.

Arindam Mukherjee

On the field, aggression can sometimes be a positive emotion. It boosts performance and can lift your game. But over the years, I have learnt that restrained aggression is a better animal. That way, you will conserve your energy and won't spend yours...

Virat Kohli

The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.

Robert Fripp

It takes a stronger person to restrain from retaliation, then opposing to someone who's filled with vengeance

Takina Cupp

It is difficult to restrain admirers of Shakespeare once they have begun to speak of him.

Karen Blixen

It's not subtle or restrained. It's not any of the things you like to think apply to your acting.

Margaret Hamilton

The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Limited government, low taxes, controlled spending and debt, and a restrained regulatory environment make Texas work.

Mark McKinnon

We absolutely have to restrain concentrations of wealth in industry from spoiling the situation for everybody.

William Weld

How do you file a restraining order against sadness?

White Horse

There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all things that limit government. Government is the enemy of liberty. Government should be very restrained.

Ron Paul

The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.

Adam Smith