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Restraint Quotes

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Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others
John Locke

Authors on Restraint Quotes: Mahatma Gandhi Barbara Kingsolver Jonathan Banks Kazuo Ishiguro Robert Frost Jim Rohn Zooey Deschanel Wendell Berry Chinua Achebe Gustave Flaubert J. G. Holland Edmund Spenser Mary MacLane Marianne Moore Stephen Colbert John Locke Ovid Sara Genn Alexandra Guarnaschelli Lettie Cowman Fanny Burney Epictetus Matthew Woodring Stover George Washington Steven James John Lubbock Flannery O'Connor Seneca the Younger James Russell Lowell Zach Wamp Ambrose Bierce Daniel Webster Michael Burry
2.
The borrowers will always be willing to take a great deal for themselves. It’s up to the lenders to show restraint, and when they lose it, watch out.
Michael Burry

3.
Liberty has restraints but no frontiers.
David Lloyd George

4.
To choose evil is to choose freedom, emancipation from all restraint.
Georges Bataille

5.
I do not see any beauty in self-restraint.
Mary MacLane

6.
What is pertinent is the calmness of that beauty, its sense of restraint.
Kazuo Ishiguro

7.
The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence.
Marianne Moore

8.
Restraint never ruins one's health.
Mahatma Gandhi

9.
Tyranny knows no restraint of appetite.
Jim Rohn

10.
A people unused to restraint must be led, they will not be drove.
George Washington

11.
But restraint is the only one sort of control, and absence of restraint isn't freedom. It's not control that's lacking when one feels 'free', but the objectionable control of force.
B. F. Skinner

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Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?
Seneca the Younger

13.
Before buying anything, it is well to ask if one could do without it.
John Lubbock

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Vibrancy is only as effective as the mastering of restraint.
Sara Genn

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The true nature of man left to himself without restraint is not nobility but savagery.
Steven James

16.
Some wounds grow worse beneath the surgeon's hand; Better that they were not touched at all.
Ovid

17.
I like restraint, if it doesn't go too far.
Mae West

18.
Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.
James Russell Lowell

19.
More caution and perhaps more restraint are necessary in breaking a fast than in keeping it.
Mahatma Gandhi

20.
Pour out the wine without restraint or stay, Pour not by cups, but by the bellyful, Pour out to all that wull.
Edmund Spenser

21.
The hardest thing for me is restraint.
Alexandra Guarnaschelli

22.
The pro-growth policies and spending restraint of Conservatives work.
Zach Wamp

23.
The work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint.
John Milton

24.
Everything must be free to be written and published without restraint.
John Stuart Mill

25.
The only time the press doesn’t sensationalize information is when one of their own is kidnapped. Interesting how they show restraint then.
Jim Norton

26.
'Wiseguy' for its time was good. It was really good. And it holds up still. But a lot of the restraints have been taken off now.
Jonathan Banks

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such is the effect of true politeness, that it banishes all restraint and embarassment.
Fanny Burney

28.
What is it that every man seeks? To be secure, to be happy, to do what he pleases without restraint and without compulsion.
Epictetus

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Our character is determined by what we do if every restraint were removed.
Lettie Cowman

30.
I can take strange detours and linger in places and do things that have no budgetary restraints.
Rick Remender

31.
Restraint is the better part of beauty.
Frances Gray Patton

32.
Not just self-restraint, that old killjoy, but communal restraint.
Wendell Berry

33.
Have you heard about the women who stabbed her husband 37 times? I admire her restraint.
Roseanne Barr

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It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.
Andre Gide

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I'm obviously younger, much better looking [then Jeorge W.Bush].He didn't veto things, he didn't bring order and fiscal restraint.
Stephen Colbert

36.
I appreciate a songwriter like Morrissey with so much restraint.
Zooey Deschanel

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Come, let’s be calm: no one incapable of restraint was ever a writer.
Gustave Flaubert

38.
Self-restraint is indulgence of the propensity to forgo.
Ambrose Bierce

39.
When all choices seem wrong, choose restraint.
Matthew Woodring Stover

40.
Liberty consists in wholesome restraint
Daniel Webster

41.
Either practice restraint or be prepared for crowding
Flannery O'Connor

42.
I had no way of knowing where it began or where it ended. Only that it flowed without restraint.
Shin Kyung-sook

43.
Remember that even in war there is a time for restraint. A time to hold back your sword.
Suzanne Collins

44.
Exercise humility and restraint.
Warren Buffett

45.
In our time the only restraint left is self-retraint.
Jeffrey R. Holland

46.
I would need to display great restraint, but we've got to have toughness.
Donald Trump

47.
I don't think I've ever heard anybody in this Regime counsel restraint and advise, "No backlash against cops. We must maintain the order."
Rush Limbaugh

48.
Wage restraint was helping businesses out and now it's not. Have we tipped over the edge? Maybe not, but the trend in wages is moving higher.
Greg Miller

49.
restraint equals indulgence
Barbara Kingsolver

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Bounds should be set To ingenuity for being so cruel In bringing change unheralded on the unready.
Robert Frost