Restraint Quotes

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Things aren`t right. If a burglar breaks into your home and you shoot him, he can sue you. For what, restraint of trade?

- Bill Maher

About Drawing Restraint 9 (2005): "Trying to even start to explain the film is kind of challenging, but with my little alcohol-pickled brain, it`s really tough. I guess that`s the point with the way Matthew sets it up, because there is no story. You just have to sit there and enjoy it, a bit like nature. The film has a narrative, but a really abstract one. It`s not your average Hollywood movie, let`s put it that way." (Telegraph interview, 21/07/2005)

- Björk

Restraint can be tough. I`ve made a point to learn how to make a slow song have as much impact as a fast song. That`s a challenge I`ve given myself, because it`s easy to just get out there and blast through a bunch of things and feel as though you`re exciting the audience. If you can do that with a slow song, then you really have some variety and some range.

- John Doe

Our runaway judiciary is badly in need of restraint by Congress.

- Phyllis Schlafly

I think Silence of the Lambs was a great film and when somebody does that kind of suspense thing, with that much restraint, it`s impressive.

- Emily Watson

(Arrington hopes to be a factor, to help the NFL`s third-ranked defense from last season soar even higher. But rather then feed into the hype with his trademark bold and brash comments, he is preaching restraint.) My sense is not to buy into all of that, ... If we buy into it, we`re kind of setting ourselves up. I don`t want to be a part of a quote that said that we were going to be special this year. I think we`ve got the makings of a great unit, and that could make for a pretty interesting season, but we`ll see what happens.

- LaVar Arrington

I don`t want to hear again from the attorney general or anyone on this floor that this government has shown it can be trusted to use the power we give it with restraint and care.

- Russ Feingold

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

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

We just think it`s time to give the school system a little breathing room so they can manage their finances. Most people want some kind of fiscal restraint kept in place, and nobody disagrees with the ordinance, but we think the majority of people in town would support an incremental adjustment to the formula to give the schools the money it needs.

- Joe Breen

The chief justice for 33 years has been the personification of the value of judicial restraint, and that is something that the president is equally committed to. I`m certain the president will abide by those beliefs as he looks for a nominee to replace him.

- Chuck Cooper

Republicans have always been the party of fiscal restraint, and now we have to act like it, even if it means making tough decisions.

- Jeff Miller

Certainly the violence in Iraq has been much lower than it might have been, because there`s been a fair deal of restraint among Shiite leaders. And that might end now - they may feel the need to really go after the Sunni Arabs as a diversion.

- David Mack

"Sex" is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.

- Marquis de Sade

Mandate has very grave doubts as to whether the social partnership process, with its current restrictive agenda and parameters can truly address the income needs of those on middle and lower incomes, given the very narrow focus on competitiveness and wage restraint being applied to the talks by both the government and employers in terms of wages in particular.

- John Douglas

Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.

- Aislinn Ryan

But if institutions of restraint might still be necessary, they should no longer be institutions of punishment at the same time.

- Al Hostetler

After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.

- Al Hostetler

After the revolution, surely the only good reason for institutions that could still be called prisons - because they take people and place them under restraint - is this reason: wanting to keep people from harming others.

- Al Hostetler

Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating.

- Al Weed

I do not want to hear phony cries about budget restraint. The tax cuts for the rich rob us of our ability to have good programs.

- Alberto Melloni

There is a Passion natural to the Mind of man, especially a free Man, which renders him impatient of Restraint.

- Alex Maskey

Unknown to her the rigid rule, the dull restraint, the chiding frown, the weary torture of the school, the taming of wild nature down.

- Alison Goss

Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.

- Allyson Twiggs

To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don`t deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!

- Althea Tupper

To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible.

- Alvin Hellerstein

The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.

- Alyssa Fressle

I do not see any beauty in self-restraint.

- Amanda Gunter

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

- Andrew Stotz

I never think of the measures necessary for the peace and good order of the colonies without pain. There must be an abridgment of what are called English liberties. I relieve myself by considering that in a remove from a state of nature to the most perfect state of government, there must be a great restraint of natural liberty.

- Ann Morrison

This agreement resolves our First Amendment concerns regarding prior restraint of the right to gather and publish information. We stand ready to pursue other legal remedies if for some reason this agreement is not signed by the judge.

- Apostle

It was this issue of prior restraint that was at the heart of our objections.

- Apostle

It`s risky just to sit back and wait for inflation to show up before we do something, ... One point arguing for monetary restraint is that we seem to have reached a stage where inflation is no longer falling.

- Babe Zaharias

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants them to do, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it

- Theodore Roosevelt

Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.

- Alexis de Tocqueville

Anarchism, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion; the liberation of the human body from the dominion of property; liberation from the shackles and restraint of government.

- Emma Goldman