I do not see any beauty in self-restraint.
Noble self-restraint must have something to restrain.
Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution.
Liberty depends on self-restraint. Freedom is freedom only when controlled and limited.
In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint.
Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
The place where we don't agree is on whether there should be some restraint on insurance companies and whether they should be allowed to run wild. We believe there should be some restraint; some on the other side don't think so.
Did someone actually have to do bad things to be a bad boy, or was it all about the potential? If it was the potential that counted, then maybe it was the restraint that was so sexy, knowing that he could do something dangerous and powerful but had t...
Liberty has restraints but no frontiers.
Most of us are searching-consciously or unconsciously- for a degree of internal balance and harmony between ourselves and the outside world, and if we happen to become aware-like Stravinsky- of a volcano within us, we will compensate by urging restra...
When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.
I appreciate a songwriter like Morrissey with so much restraint.
Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.
It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.
The pro-growth policies and spending restraint of Conservatives work.
I think architects are often at their best when faced with restraints.
One of the things we're taught as actors is restraint - don't jump off the cliff.
Actors must practice restraint, else think what might happen in a love scene.
The hardest thing for me is restraint.
Only faith and restraint against the tyrant damns the saint.
