Showing Restraint Quotes

#1. I'll tell you where the injustice is. It's with the person earning £12,000 to £15,000-a-year who is being asked to be restrained by their business or employer. Yet the taxpayer has bailed out the banks, so why are they not showing restraint?

Prince Andrew

#2. Speed has never killed anyone. Suddenly becoming stationary, that's what gets you.

Jeremy Clarkson

#3. We shall listen, not lecture; learn, not threaten. We will enhance our safety by earning the respect of others and showing respect for them. In short, our foreign policy will rest on the traditional American values of restraint and empathy, not on military might.

Theodore C. Sorensen

#4. The longing knotted into such a simple question was more than he could contemplate.

Anthony Marra

#5. Writers themselves don't analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope.

Nadine Gordimer

#6. I'm a serial monogamist and would never dream of being as predatory as some of the women I've played. I can actually be a bit shy.

Natalie Dormer

#7. I mean, first, almost all writers these days teach because they don't make enough money publishing to live on, to support themselves - people like Tobias Wolff, Anne Beattie, Amy Hempel, Stuart Dybek; a lot of short story writers, for one thing.

Chad Harbach