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Tag Name "Restrain" (106)

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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
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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
Seneca the Younger
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The poet needs a ground in popular tradition on which he may work, and which, again, may restrain his art within the due temperance. It holds him to the people, supplies a foundation for his edifice and, in furnishing so much work done to his hand, leaves him at leisure, and in full strength for the audacities of his imagination.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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With how many things are we on the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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He who practices sheel (virtue) and sayyam (self-restrain) attains to greatness
Shri Radhe Maa
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Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.
Ayn Rand
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I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.
Cato the Elder
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The Anarchists answer that the abolition of the State will leave in existence a defensive association, resting no longer on a compulsory but on a voluntary basis, which will restrain invaders by any means that may prove necessary.
Benjamin Tucker
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By privileges, immunities, or prerogatives to give unlimited swing to the passions of individuals, and then to hope that they will restrain them, is about as reasonable as to expect that the tiger will spare the hart to browse upon the herbage.
Charles Caleb Colton
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The common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it.
George Washington
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Resign every forbidden joy restrain every wish that is not referred to God's will banish all eager desires, all anxiety desire only the will of God seek him alone and supremely, and you will find peace.
Francois Fenelon
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Never, for fear of feeble man, restrain your witness.
Charles Spurgeon
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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
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The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction that to suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his powers into the field of opinion and to restrain the profession or propagation of principles on supposition of their ill tendency is a dangerous falacy, which at once destroys all religious liberty...
Thomas Jefferson
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It is difficult to restrain admirers of Shakespeare once they have begun to speak of him.
Isak Dinesen
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Check and restrain anger. Never make any determination until you find it has entirely subsided.
Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood
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It's in the nature of television to restrain the spontaneity of a live event. Things become more and more prepackaged.
Bill Condon
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We did everything we could to break down barriers that restrain poorest.
Boris Johnson
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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
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The Founders intended only to prevent the establishment of a single national denomination, not to restrain public religious expressions.
David Barton
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When you are in deep distress and cannot restrain some expression of it, sit down and write out a harsh letter venting your anger. But don't send it.
Donald T. Phillips
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What is freedom, in the end, but that no one cares any longer to try to restrain us?
Naomi Alderman
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The old question still remains: Can a free people restrain crime without sacrificing fundamental liberties and a heritage of compassion?
Gerald R. Ford
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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
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