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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 Shin Kyung-sook John Milton Frances Gray Patton Andre Gide Jeffrey R. Holland Mae West Suzanne Collins David Lloyd George Greg Miller Rick Remender B. F. Skinner John Stuart Mill Kay Redfield Jamison Warren Buffett Jim Norton Rush Limbaugh Donald Trump Gregory Maguire Robert Frost Barbara Kingsolver Jonathan Banks Kazuo Ishiguro Wendell Berry Jim Rohn Zooey Deschanel J. G. Holland Chinua Achebe Gustave Flaubert Stephen Colbert Edmund Spenser Mary MacLane Marianne Moore
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.
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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A people unused to restraint must be led, they will not be drove.
George Washington

12.
Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?
Seneca the Younger

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

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

15.
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

17.
Some wounds grow worse beneath the surgeon's hand; Better that they were not touched at all.
Ovid

18.
I like restraint, if it doesn't go too far.
Mae West

19.
Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.
James Russell Lowell

20.
The work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint.
John Milton

21.
Everything must be free to be written and published without restraint.
John Stuart Mill

22.
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

23.
Pour out the wine without restraint or stay, Pour not by cups, but by the bellyful, Pour out to all that wull.
Edmund Spenser

24.
The hardest thing for me is restraint.
Alexandra Guarnaschelli

25.
The pro-growth policies and spending restraint of Conservatives work.
Zach Wamp

26.
I can take strange detours and linger in places and do things that have no budgetary restraints.
Rick Remender

27.
Restraint is the better part of beauty.
Frances Gray Patton

28.
Not just self-restraint, that old killjoy, but communal restraint.
Wendell Berry

29.
'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

30.
such is the effect of true politeness, that it banishes all restraint and embarassment.
Fanny Burney

31.
What is it that every man seeks? To be secure, to be happy, to do what he pleases without restraint and without compulsion.
Epictetus

32.
Our character is determined by what we do if every restraint were removed.
Lettie Cowman

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

34.
It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.
Andre Gide

35.
In our time the only restraint left is self-retraint.
Jeffrey R. Holland

36.
Exercise humility and restraint.
Warren Buffett

37.
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

38.
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

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

40.
We all move uneasily within our restraints.
Kay Redfield Jamison

41.
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

43.
In my definition I am a protest writer, with restraint.
Chinua Achebe

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It is only rogues who feel the restraints of law.
J. G. Holland

45.
Children are wickeder than adults, they have no sense of restraint.
Gregory Maguire

46.
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

47.
I appreciate a songwriter like Morrissey with so much restraint.
Zooey Deschanel

48.
Come, let’s be calm: no one incapable of restraint was ever a writer.
Gustave Flaubert

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

50.
Liberty consists in wholesome restraint
Daniel Webster