Top 100 Restrain Quotes
#1. I am now the site of an unmistakable sag ... With fancy holographic belt buckles do I attempt to restrain my stampeding softness. In vain ... My only virtues, as a physical specimen, are my sideburns, which are like the pelts of rare woodland animals. My sideburns are not to be ignored.
Rick Moody
#2. Why was it that women were expected to restrain our every passion for the sake of propriety, but men couldn't do it even for the sake of the women they loved?
Stephanie Dray
#3. If I prove extravagant, I shall be more so from ignorance than willfulness. I am not wholly insensible to the pleasures of the world, therefore shall not be governed entirely by necessity; but I flatter myself, at least, in being able to restrain their gratification within due bonds.
Washington Allston
#4. It takes a stronger person to restrain from retaliation, then opposing to someone who's filled with vengeance
Takina Cupp
#5. The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.
Chanakya
#6. Let no worldly prosperity divert you, nor any worldly adversity restrain you from His praise.
Anselm Of Canterbury
#7. Please restrain your commentary on the furniture.
Holly Black
#8. He knew there was no one to restrain him now, and he knew that he was beaten. But an animal will always fight for its life to the bitter end; no animal ever licks the boots of his executioner.
Georgi Vladimov
#9. It's in the nature of television to restrain the spontaneity of a live event. Things become more and more prepackaged.
Bill Condon
#10. One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.
James K. Polk
#11. I'm not Sisyphus trying to restrain death. Illyria is a soldier. If it's her time, it's her time. I'm not at war with Atropos. It's her will to take us whenever she likes. My only goal is to die with dignity. (Stryker)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#12. Have you ever noticed that our maximum loss of energy occurs when we try to
restrain the flow of whatever that is coming from within?
Deep Trivedi
#13. The nation becomes the master of its fate not only when it has many good sons, but also when it possesses enough strength to restrain its bad ones.
Roman Dmowski
#15. Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
Cato The Younger
#16. I'd once been told that if a man wanted something he did not have, no matter how elusive that thing was, if his feet do not restrain him from chasing it, he would eventually grab it. This was our case.
Chigozie Obioma
#17. R5 Passive Knower: "If, whenever I have to make a judgement, I restrain my will so that it extends to what the intellect clearly and distinctly reveals, and no further, then it is quite impossible for me to go wrong" (Descartes, PWD 2:43).
Lee Braver
#19. they run in among their own men to restrain their fury; and if any of their enemies see them or call to them, they are preserved by that means; and such as can come so near them as to touch their garments have not only their lives, but their fortunes secured to them;
Thomas More
#20. By this Yoshida explains that 'when we look at the actual conditions of this world through the camera's lens, we must deny the random movements of the human eye and restrain the eye's constant movements in order to focus on one point.
Isolde Standish
#21. The laws receive their force and authority from an oath of fidelity, either tacit or expressed, which living subjects have sworn to their sovereign, in order to restrain the intestine fermentation of the private interest of individuals.
Cesare Beccaria
#22. Good. So, Mrs. Grey . . . by popular demand, I'm going to restrain you. His
E.L. James
#23. Restrain an inordinate desire for knowledge, in which is found much anxiety and deception. Learned men always wish to appear so, and desire recognition of their wisdom. But there are many matters, knowledge of which brings little or no advantage to the soul.
Thomas A Kempis
#24. Then, everlasting Love , restrain thy will; 'Tis god -like to have power, but not to kill.
John Fletcher
#25. Everything dictated silence and self-control but I couldn't restrain myself and spoke my mind.
Philip Roth
#26. A person in my position has to restrain himself.
Vin Diesel
#27. Some people object to libertarian ideas because there are too many irresponsible people in the world - people who will cause trouble if the government doesn't restrain them.
Harry Browne
#28. No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.
Thomas Jefferson
#29. Only our deep moral values and our strong social institutions can hold back that jungle and restrain the darker impulses of human nature.
Ronald Reagan
#30. 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.
Andre Gide
#31. I think people should have the legal right to hurt themselves without fearing that they're going to get locked up for doing so. But on a personal level, if someone I loved was hurting himself or herself in front of me, I would, of course, try to restrain them.
Chester Brown
#32. Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.
Henri Frederic Amiel
#33. Scarcely any degree of judgment is sufficient to restrain the imagination from magnifying that on which it is long detained
Samuel Johnson
#34. I am sensible that my keenness of temper, and a vanity to be distinguished for the day, make me too often splash in life ... I amresolved to restrain myself and attend more to decorum.
James Boswell
#35. We should neither try to demolish technology nor run away from it. We can restrain it and must redeem it. - ALBERT BORGMANN
Anonymous
#36. Wherever his faltering mind,
unsteadily wanders,
he should restrain it
and bring it under self-control
Krishna, the mind is faltering,
violent, strong, and stubborn;
I find it as difficult
to hold as the wind.
Vikram Seth
#37. 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
#38. Freedom of speech means setting words free. Imprisoned and freed words are consequential. All words have consequences. Restrain and release words with respect for their consequentialness.
John R. Dallas Jr.
#39. A strong soul reaches anyplace, anytime; body fails to restrain it. And thus, perhaps soulmates are formed
Munia Khan
#40. When More had said that a man who cannot restrain his passions is essentially cruel, he spoke the truth.
Jean Plaidy
#41. Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
William Blake
#42. If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good.
Morris Raphael Cohen
#43. Self-control is the ability to restrain a laugh at the wrong place.
Elbert Hubbard
#44. We're going to open this bookcase and remove the grimoire."
Now I wasn't surprised so much as shocked. "No way," I shot back. "This thing is enchanted to hell and back-maybe literally."
Dad closed his eyes and took a deep breath, like he was having to physically restrain himself from yelling.
Rachel Hawkins
#45. A rainbow looks good because the colours demonstrate restrain. Otherwise it would be an ugly blob.
Arindam Mukherjee
#46. He put his fist against his chest. "Burn, Maddygirl," he said. Then he turned and left her in the flickering gloom and thunder.
Laura Kinsale
#47. His eyes twinkled mischievously as he gazed at me with that look that always made me melt: as if I were edible and he could barely restrain himself from taking a bite.
Amy Plum
#49. I am possessed by one insatiable passion , which I cannot restrain nor would I if I could ... I cannot get enough books .
Francesco Petrarca
#50. I had to restrain myself from buying a book on 19th-century fruit knives.
Susanna Clarke
#51. 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
#52. In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that it is also a crucial survival tool.
Katherine Dunn
#53. It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers to pretend to watch over the economy of private people, and to restrain their expense. They are themselves, always, and without any exception, the greatest spendthrifts in the society.
Adam Smith
#54. The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment.
William Sloane Coffin
#55. In daily life, reality gives us material incentives to restrain our irrationality. But what incentive do we have to think rationally about politics?
Bryan Caplan
#56. [Our Constitution] is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.
Patrick Henry
#57. Happiness is not the reward of virtue, but is virtue itself; nor do we delight in happiness because we restrain from our lusts; but on the contrary, because we delight in it, therefore we are able to restrain them.
Baruch Spinoza
#58. The object of a Constitution is to restrain the Government, as that of laws is to restrain individuals.
John C. Calhoun
#59. Music is 99% of my life. But I know I need a break. Besides, if you give people too much, they start to not want it. We need to restrain ourselves.
Billy Corgan
#60. AS one instructs others,
So should one do oneself:
Only the self-controlled should restrain others.
Truly, it's hard to restrain oneself.
Gautama Buddha
#61. When people are too comfortable, it is not possible to restrain them within the bounds of their duty? They may be compared to mules who, being accustomed to burdens, are spoilt by rest rather than labour.
Cardinal Richelieu
#62. It's amazing how willingly one can tell to a new face, and how restrained one may be from telling a familiar one.
Lauren Lola
#63. I think that you have to restrain yourself from googling your name and have other hobbies and desires and wants. You do a million things. You go to school, you write, you read, you blog.
Mila Kunis
#64. Two purposes in human nature rule. Self- love to urge, and reason to restrain.
Alexander Pope
#65. Her hopeless love swelled up inside her, crying for an outlet, and all she could do was hold it silently in her heart.
Lyn Ducoty
#66. You're wrong."
"I am?"
"I thought things through this time around. I even managed to restrain myself."
Theo stared at her, incredulous. "You did."
"I thought about kicking him in the balls, but I didn't. I figured that would be over kill." - Rendezvous with Destiny
Jess Schira
#67. In the course of writing one historical book or another, it has happened that I could hardly restrain myself from simply copying entire documents. Indeed, I sometimes sank down among the documents and said to myself, I can't improve on these.
Alfred Doblin
#68. He who, with strong passions, remains chaste
he who, keenly sensitive, with manly power of indignation in him, can yet restrain himself and forgive
these are strong men, spiritual heroes.
Frederick William Robertson
#69. The mathematics are the friends of religion, inasmuch as they charm the passions, restrain the impetuosity of the imagination, and purge the mind of error and prejudice.
John Arbuthnot
#70. The whole country wants civility. Why don't we have it? It doesn't cost anything. No federal funding, no legislation is involved. One answer is the unwillingness to restrain oneself. Everybody wants other people to be polite to them, but they want the freedom of not having to be polite to others.
Judith Martin
#72. We know well enough when we're being unjust and despicable. but we don't restrain ourselves because we experience a certain pleasure, a primitive sort of satisfaction in moments like that.
Ugo Betti
#73. Lessen selfishness and restrain desires.
Laozi
#74. Moderation is represented as a virtue in order to restrain the ambition of great men, and to console those of a meaner condition in their lesser merit and fortune.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#75. Warriors in some cultures drink the blood of their enemies. Some people consume the blood of animals." "As a rule, here on Ice Island, they restrain themselves.
Chet Williamson
#76. He who practices sheel (virtue) and sayyam (self-restrain) attains to greatness
Shri Radhe Maa
#77. All Politeness is owing to Liberty. We polish one another, and rub off our Corners and rough Sides by a sort of amicable Collision. To restrain this, is inevitably to bring a Rust upon Mens Understandings.
Anthony Ashley Cooper
#78. The Lord is slow to anger, because He is GREAT IN POWER. He is truly great in power who hath power over himself. When God's power doth restrain Himself, then it is power indeed: the power that binds omnipotence is omnipotence surpassed.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#79. The one who can't restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do." -Horace
Genna Rulon
#80. The delight in natural things - colors, forms, scents - when there was nothing to restrain or hamper it, has often been a kind of intoxication, in which thought and consciousness seemed suspended ...
Mary Augusta Ward
#81. To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
Adam Smith
#82. The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.
Horace
#83. Perhaps we didn't win anyway. (the Cold War) Perhaps they just lost. Or perhaps, without the bonds of ideological conflict to restrain us any more, our troubles are just beginning.
John Le Carre
#84. Delayed gratification the ability to control yourself or restrain yourself from getting an instant benefit.
Sunday Adelaja
#85. The Constitution was not written to restrain the citizen's behavior, it was writtne to restrain the government's behavior.
Rand Paul
#86. You cannot pray for someone and hate them at the same time. Even if you are asking God to restrain their evil actions,
you should also be praying that He will change their hearts. Only eternity will reveal the impact of our prayers for others.
Billy Graham
#87. The black line is carbon emissions to date. The red line is the status quo - a projection of where emissions will go if no new substantial policy is passed to restrain greenhouse gas emissions.
David Roberts
#88. I will teach you in time, but for now restrain me and have your way with me. I don't want to think, I just want to feel. -Jake
Laci Paige
#89. We'd considered wearing uniform but Lesley said, what with her mask and everything, she'd look like a plastic cop monster from Doctor Who. I managed to restrain myself from telling her their real name.
Ben Aaronovitch
#90. I'd like to restrain from cruelty and not be thanked." ~ Katsa
Kristin Cashore
#91. No administration could stop the tidal wave of immigration that swept over the land; no political party could restrain or control the enterprise of our people, and no reasonable man could desire to check the march of civilization.
Nelson A. Miles
#92. Noble self-restraint must have something to restrain.
Edith Hamilton
#93. Laws don't really restrain people. Ninety-eight percent of people follow a virtuous course with or without laws.
Rand Paul
#94. Repression is not the way to virtue. When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. Only through freely chosen discipline can life be enjoyed and still kept within the bounds of reason.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#95. 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.
Gerrit Smith
#96. It is well to fetter the wings of our fancy and restrain its flights.
Edward E. Barnard
#97. A very ridiculous thing it is, that any man should dispense with vice and wickedness in himself, which is in his power to restrain; and should go about to suppress it in others, which is altogether impossible.
Marcus Aurelius
#99. Youth is impulsive. When our young men grow angry at some real or imaginary wrong, and disfigure their faces with black paint, it denotes that their hearts are black, and that they are often cruel and relentless, and our old men and old women are unable to restrain them. Thus it has ever been.
Chief Seattle
#100. I needed to get to know myself and really, really explore music without any pressure to sell it. I wanted to try and not restrain myself at all, so I've been trying to move quite freely between different sounds and genres.
Tove Styrke
