Restrains Quotes

#1. Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire.

Saint Augustine

#2. There is who loves you quietly, and respects you quietly, and wishes you privately, and walks away when he sees you busy with someone other than him, and his ego restrains him from getting near you, and contents himself with the love for the sake of love

Nizar Qabbani

#3. Patience strengthens the spirit, sweetens the temper, stifles anger, extinguishes envy, subdues pride, bridles the tongue, restrains the hand and tramples upon temptations.

George Horne

#4. The state is concerned with the promotion of outward righteousness arising from the individual being constrained to keep the law. The Gospel alters human nature, whereas the state merely restrains human greed and evil, having no positive power to alter human motivation.

Alister E. McGrath

#5. The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind.

William Blackstone

#6. I think it can be shown that the law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.

Voltairine De Cleyre

#7. Then you'll need to teach him again, until he's learned. Just as I've done with you boys. That's what God does with us, after all. Puts us out into the world where the only real boundary is that of His love. His love either compels us, or restrains us. There is nothing stronger, Danny.

Tamera Alexander

#8. The member of a contractual society is free because he serves others only in serving himself. What restrains him is only the inevitable natural phenomenon of scarcity.

Ludwig Von Mises

#9. Dharma is precisely this 'discipline of ordered existence', a 'belief system that restrains and gives coherence to desires.

Gurcharan Das

#10. The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good.

George Washington

#11. 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

#12. Salt is the policeman of taste: it keeps the various flavors of a dish in order and restrains the stronger from tyrannizing over the weaker.

Margaret Visser

#13. I want to tell you something but good taste
Restrains me

Sappho Van Lesbos

#14. What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor

H.L. Mencken

#15. I want to speak! Fear restrains me. I have

Elaine Pagels

#16. Should I trust this man? I want to. I want to just throw caution to the wind and shout, Yes! Yes! Fix me! Please make me normal. However, a nagging negative feeling restrains me. I know that if I accept this offer, something terrible will happen. Something terrible always does.

Loretta Lost

#17. 27 Whoever w restrains his words has knowledge, and he who has a cool spirit is a man of understanding.

Anonymous

#18. I guess nothing restrains people from demanding ideal conditions. Very little restrains them from anything.

Saul Bellow

#19. A good man not only forbears those gratifications which are forbidden by reason and religion, but even restrains himself in unforbidden instances.

Francis Atterbury

#20. Only a keen sense of public duty restrains me from plugging you where you sit, you ineffable swine.

Sapper

#21. If an earnest person has roused himself, if he is not forgetful, if his deeds are pure, if he acts with consideration, if he restrains himself, and lives according to law,then his glory will increase.

Max Muller

#22. It is part of the formidableness of a genuine mass movement that the self-sacrifice it promotes includes also a sacrifice of some of the moral sense, which cramps and restrains our nature.

Eric Hoffer

#23. Few things are more agreeable to self-love than revenge, and yet no cause so effectually restrains us from revenge as self-love. And this paradox naturally suggests another; that the strength of the community is not unfrequently built upon the weakness of those individuals that compose it.

Charles Caleb Colton

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

Sergei Lukyanenko

#25. The beginning of pride and hatred lies in worldly desire, and the strength of your desire if from habit. When an evil tendency becomes confirmed by habit, rage is triggered when anyone restrains you.

Rumi

#26. In abundance of words, offense will not be lacking but one who restrains his lips is wise.

Anonymous

#27. He who restrains his tongue has a leash on his enemy.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#28. We are all bound to the throne of the Supreme Being by a flexible chain which restrains without enslaving us. The most wonderful aspect of the universal scheme of things is the action of free beings under divine guidance.

Joseph De Maistre

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

Thomas Huxley

#30. So the man who restrains himself within the bounds set by nature will not notice poverty; the man who exceeds these bounds will be pursued by poverty however rich he

Seneca.