Restraint Quotes - Page 6

• A lot of cop shows, because they have the restraints of having a new case every episode, the victims often become these kind of nameless, faceless plot points, and as an audience we don't feel anything for those people.

  Mireille Enos

  People, Plot, Kind

  "Angelface Mireille Enos Hunts Devils on The Killing". Interview with Jennifer Arrow, www.today.com. April 23, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Give us a chance to show you that those so-called protective laws to aid women - however well intentioned originally - have become in fact restraints, which keep wife, abandoned wife, and widow alike from supporting her family.

  Martha Griffiths

  Law, Wife, Giving

  7 Copy quote

• When you think back to your first kiss, your hair is perfect and she was wearing a cool outfit. We remember it with restraint and we remember it with style. We remember it as idealistically as you can think.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Kissing, Thinking, Hair

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Years, Earning, Injustice

  4 Copy quote

• The first and most important thing is to remain free, free in each line you undertake, in your ideas and in your political action, in your moral conduct. The artist especially must remain free from all outer restraints.

  Hans Hartung

  Freedom, Artist, Ideas

  11 Copy quote

• Remember there is always a limit to self-indulgence, none to restraint... Civilization , in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication but in the deliberate and voluntary restriction of wants. This alone promotes real happiness and contentment , and increases the capacity for service .

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Real, Self, Civilization

  4 Copy quote

• The difference between a stable society and an unstable one is that the restraints in an unstable one are external. In a stable society government ultimately becomes unnecessary; the restraints on people's actions are internal, they're self-disciplined.

  Carroll Quigley

  Government, Self, Differences

  Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: "The State of Individuals", 1976.

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have read all of Daniel Aaron's books, and admired them, but in The Americanist I believe he has composed an intellectual and social memoir for which he will be remembered. His self-portrait is marked by personal tact and admirable restraint: he is and is not its subject. The Americanist is a vision of otherness: literary and academic friends and acquaintances, here and abroad. Eloquently phrased and free of nostalgia, it catches a lost world that yet engendered much of our own.

  Harold Bloom

  Believe, Book, Self

  6 Copy quote

• America is a noisy culture, unlike, say, Finland, which values silence. Individualism, dominant in the U.S. and Germany, promotes the direct, fast-paced style of communication associated with extraversion. Collectivistic societies, such as those in East Asia, value privacy and restraint, qualities more characteristic of introverts.

  Laurie Helgoe

  Communication, America, Silence

  7 Copy quote

• Without union our independence and liberty would never have been achieved; without union they can never be maintained. Divided into twenty-four, or even a smaller number, of separate communities, we shall see our internal trade burdened with numberless restraints and exactions; communications between distant points and sections obstructed or cut off; our sons made soldiers to deluge with blood the fields they now till in peace...The loss of liberty, of all good government, of peace, plenty, and happiness, must inevitably follow a dissolution of the Union.

  Andrew Jackson

  Communication, Son, Cutting

  Andrew Jackson (1835). “Annual messages, veto messages, protest, &c. of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States”, p.148

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• While the Left seems obsessed with increasing taxes and spending even more money, conservatives have focused more heavily on the need for spending restraint and entitlement reform - primarily to preserve and protect the future of the Medicare program. Overlooked in all of this is the future of Medicaid.

  Fred Upton

  Reform, Needs, Entitlement

  4 Copy quote

• The liberty I mean is social freedom. It is that state of things in which liberty is secured by the equality of restraint. A constitution of things in which the liberty of no one man, and no body of men, and no number of men, can find means to trespass on the liberty of any person, or any description of persons, in the society. This kind of liberty is, indeed, but another name for justice.

  Edmund Burke

  Philosophy, Mean, Men

  Edmund Burke (1999). “The Portable Edmund Burke”, p.503, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Both Self-restraint and Unrestraint are a matter of extremes as compared with the character of the mass of mankind; the restrained man shows more and the unrestrained man less steadfastness than most men are capable of.

  Aristotle

  Character, Men, Self

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.188, Wordsworth Editions

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The idea of freedom can never be disassociated from real Prussia. The real Prussian spirit means a synthesis between restraint and freedom, between voluntary subordination and conscientious leadership, between pride in oneself and consideration for others, between rigor and compassion. Unless a balance is kept between these qualities, the Prussian spirit is in danger of degenerating into soulless routine and narrow-minded dogmatism.

  Henning von Tresckow

  Real, Mean, Pride

  "Withstanding Hitler" by Michael Balfour, (p. 130), 1988.

  64 Copy quote

  Show source

• Just laws are no restraint upon the freedom of the good, for the good man desires nothing which a just law will interfere with.

  James Anthony Froude

  Men, Law, Good Man

  James Anthony Froude (1871). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.239

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Elegance is something more than ease; it is more than a freedom from awkwardness or restraint. It implies, I conceive, a precision, a polish, a sparkling, spirited yet delicate.

  William Hazlitt

  Ease, Elegance, Precision

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.2003, Delphi Classics

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Right is the royal ruler alone; and he who rules with least restraint comes nearest to empire.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Government, Empires, Royal

  4 Copy quote

• Perpetual aiming at wit is a very bad part of conversation. It is done to support a character: it generally fails; it is a sort of insult on the company, and a restraint upon the speaker.

  Jonathan Swift

  Character, Support, Done

  7 Copy quote

• The story of man is the history, first, of the acceptance and imposition of restraints necessary to permit communal life; and second, of the emancipation of the individual within that system of necessary restraints.

  Abe Fortas

  Freedom, Acceptance, Men

  Abe Fortas (1968). “Concerning Dissent and Civil Disobedience”

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• Try to gather the strength to live as brother and sister after one or two children are born. This is essential for reaping the full benefit of spiritual practice and to make spiritual progress through mental restraint.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Relationship, Spiritual, Brother

  7 Copy quote

• To choose evil is to choose freedom, emancipation from all restraint.

  Georges Bataille

  Evil, Emancipation

  21 Copy quote

• I don't know about you, but moderation and restraint is not what I felt when I watched the twin towers crumble to the ground, a side of the Pentagon destroyed, and almost 3,000 of our fellow citizens perish in flames and rubble.

  Karl Rove

  Flames, Towers, Citizens

  Speech at a Fund-raiser in Midtown for the Conservative Party of New York State, www.nytimes.com. June 23, 2005.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• All restraints upon man's natural liberty, not necessary for the simple maintenance of justice, are of the nature of slavery, and differ from each other only in degree.

  Lysander Spooner

  Freedom, Simple, Men

  Lysander Spooner (1973). “No Treason and a Letter to Thomas F. Bayard”

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• I had no way of knowing where it began or where it ended. Only that it flowed without restraint.

  Shin Kyung-sook

  Knowing, Way

  4 Copy quote

• Celebration... is self restraint, is attentiveness, is questioning, is meditating, is awaiting, is the step over into the more wakeful glimpse of the wonder - the wonder that a world is worlding around us at all, that there are beings rather than nothing, that things are and we ourselves are in their midst, that we ourselves are and yet barely know who we are, and barely know that we do not know all this.

  Martin Heidegger

  Self, World, Who We Are

  34 Copy quote