Restraint Quotes - Page 15

• Where would anyone in publicity be if they allowed sensitivity, restraint, breeding or good taste to stand in their way?

  Isabelle Holland

  Way, Taste, Publicity

  Isabelle Holland (1982). “Moncrieff: a novel”

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• Obama is looking good because he kept his nerve and retained his restraint. That's a tough combo: nerve and restraint. It takes a cold-bloodedness to pull this off, and there are times when ice seems to run through the man's veins.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Running, Men, Ice

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• This shift from the Judeo-Christian basis for law and the shift away from the restraints of the Constitution automatically militates against religious liberty.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Religious, Law

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• The signs of the antichrist spirit are clear. They emerge in this fashion: A significant minority then an actual majority, of the people in a society begin to throw off the restraints of history, then the restraints of written law, then accepted standards of morality, then established religion, and, finally God Himself.

  Pat Robertson

  Christian, Fashion, Religious

  Pat Robertson (1994). “The Collected Works of Pat Robertson: The New Millennium/the New World Order/the Secret Kingdom/3 Books in 1”, Bristol Park Books

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• It is frequently said that speech that is intentionally provocative and therefore invites physical retaliation can be punished or suppressed. Yet, plainly no such general proposition can be sustained. Quite the contrary.... The provocative nature of the communication does not make it any the less expression. Indeed, the whole theory of free expression contemplates that expression will in many circumstances be provocative and arouse hostility. The audience, just as the speaker, has an obligation to maintain physical restraint.

  Thomas I. Emerson

  Integrity, Communication, Responsibility

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• Asking Hollywood to begin to show some restraint and balance in its antireligious fury is not the same as suggesting that the industry must transform itself into an agency for advancing the Word of God.

  Michael Medved

  Christian, Religious, Agency

  Michael Medved (1992). “Hollywood vs. America: popular culture and the war on traditional values”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Anytime you hear the concept of the separation of church and state being talked about these days, it is never in regard to maintaining the restraints on government; instead, it is always talking about what Christians and churches cannot do.

  D. James Kennedy

  Christian, Religious, Talking

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• It is rare to see a rich man religious; for religion preaches restraint, and riches prompt to unlicensed freedom.

  Owen Feltham

  Religious, Men, Religion

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• Self-restraint is the very keystone of the ethics of vow-taking.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Self, Ethics, Vow

  Mahatma Gandhi (1950). “The Good Life”

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• The power of the state to impose restraints and burdens upon persons and property in conservation and promotion of the public health, good order, and prosperity is a power originally and always belonging to the states, not surrendered to them by the general government, nor directly restrained by the constitution of the United States, and essentially exclusive.

  Melville Fuller

  Government, Order, United States

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• Trusting people to be creative and constructive when given more freedom does not imply an overly optimistic belief in the perfectibility of human nature. It is, rather, belief that the inevitable errors and sins of the human condition are far better overcome by individuals working together in an environment of trust and freedom and mutual respect than by individuals working under a multitude of rules, regulations, and restraints imposed upon them by another group of imperfect individuals.

  Peter Senge

  Optimistic, Errors, People

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• Great American power and responsibility are not unprecedented, and have been used with restraint and great benefit in the past. We have not assumed that super strength guarantees super wisdom, and we have consistently reached out to the international community to ensure that our own power and influence are tempered by the best common judgment.

  Jimmy Carter

  Responsibility, Power, Past

  Jimmy Carter (2014). “The Jimmy Carter Library”, p.1025, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes you're overthinking, you convince yourself to get out of it and you're like, "Ah I shoulda did that!" You can't live life with regrets. Sometimes you just gotta indulge. But in the same breath, you gotta have restraint and self-control too.

  Michael B. Jordan

  Regret, Live Life, Self

  Source: thesource.com

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• In civic life, I think that's where you can debate what is good taste and what is acceptable to other people, and what's gonna offend people. Do that there, but leave it out of art, because art is the one frontier that shouldn't have restraints put on it.

  Irvine Welsh

  Art, Thinking, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Democracy requires you to learn how to lose as well as how to exercise power when you win. And that requires restraint all around. One of the reasons it works is because when you win you don't do things that are so upsetting to the losers that they feel like they have less, they have more to gain by turning over the system.

  David Frum

  Exercise, Winning, Upset

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• ...ambition without pious restraint must end in failure, often involving in its ruin that beautiful reverence which solaces common men for the obscurity and poverty of their lot.

  Russell Kirk

  Beautiful, Ambition, Men

  Russell Kirk (2001). “The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot”, p.35, Regnery Publishing

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• The Tea Party, which is pretty darn clear on its main focus, which is fiscal restraint, financial restraint, economic restraint, and return to Constitutional values and Founding Fathers' principles, had been impugned as racist, violent, homophobic, and all their motivations have been impugned.

  Andrew Breitbart

  Motivation, Father, Party

  Source: www.newsbusters.org

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• Golf in the interest of good health and good manners. It promotes self-restraint and affords a chance to play the man and act the gentleman.

  William Howard Taft

  Golf, Men, Self

  Quoted in Michael Hobbs The Golf Quotation Book (1992).

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• I can take strange detours and linger in places and do things that have no budgetary restraints.

  Rick Remender

  Detours, Strange, I Can

  Source: www.ign.com

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• Sometimes local, state and federal laws so clearly run afoul of the Constitution that the court must step in and strike them down. In most cases, the court performs this admirably and with great restraint.

  Mike DeWine

  Running, Law, Steps

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Supreme Court nominees should know that this exercise of judicial restraint is the key ingredient of being good judge, as the Constitution constrains judges every bit as much as it constrains we legislators, executives and citizens in their actions.

  Chuck Grassley

  Exercise, Keys, Judging

  "U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court". www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2006.

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• [Louis] Brandeis is often painted as an acolyte of judicial restraint, or the view that judges should uphold laws whether or not they like them.

  Jeffrey Rosen

  Views, Law, Judging

  Source: www.slate.com

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• The idea was not to make a huge business, because the bigger you get, the more restraints I thought I might get. Number one was to do what I set out to do: make new and interesting things within the size of the business that is possible to do without restraints. The second goal was to do the business in order to achieve the first goal. That's what many people don't understand.

  Rei Kawakubo

  Numbers, Order, Ideas

  Source: www.elle.com

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• If you have total freedom to design, you won't get anything interesting. So I give myself restraints in order to kind of push myself through, to create something new. It's the torture that I give myself, the pain and the struggle that I go through. So it's self-given, but that's the only way, I think, to make a strong, good new creation.

  Rei Kawakubo

  Strong, Pain, Struggle

  Source: www.elle.com

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• A people unused to restraint must be led, they will not be drove.

  George Washington

  People

  George Washington, David Maydole Matteson, United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission (1777). “The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799”

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