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Fear cannot restrain, when pleasure invites.
— Publilius Syrus
He shows a greater mind who does not restrain his laughter, than he who does not deny his tears.
— Seneca The Younger
Please restrain your commentary on the furniture.
— Holly Black
It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Anger, like fire, is difficult to restrain.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Check and restrain anger. Never make any determination until you find it has entirely subsided.
— Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood
Experience is primarily the ability to restrain our fleeting impulses.
— Sergei Lukyanenko
Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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Greatness untethered from God results in calamity unrestrained by men.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
A strong soul reaches anyplace, anytime; body fails to restrain it. And thus, perhaps soulmates are formed
— Munia Khan
Hard to restrain, unstable is this mind; it flits wherever it lists. Good it is to control the mind. A controlled mind brings happiness.
— Gautama Buddha
We absolutely have to restrain concentrations of wealth in industry from spoiling the situation for everybody.
— William Weld
Let no worldly prosperity divert you, nor any worldly adversity restrain you from His praise.
— Anselm Of Canterbury
Noble self-restraint must have something to restrain.
— Edith Hamilton
We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us from bad laws.
— G.K. Chesterton
When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. They become rigid and defensive, and their self stops growing.
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
He put his fist against his chest. "Burn, Maddygirl," he said. Then he turned and left her in the flickering gloom and thunder.
— Laura Kinsale
AS one instructs others,So should one do oneself:
Only the self-controlled should restrain others.
Truly, it's hard to restrain oneself. — Gautama Buddha
One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.
— James K. Polk
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
If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good.
— Morris Raphael Cohen
A person in my position has to restrain himself.
— Vin Diesel
The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment.
— William Sloane Coffin
Scarcely any degree of judgment is sufficient to restrain the imagination from magnifying that on which it is long detained
— Samuel Johnson
Don't restrain yourself to mundaneness. You're subject to consciousness that makes you more than animalistic.
— T.F. Hodge
Genius is a good deal like the sea ... Nothing can restrain its tide or quicken it.
— Inez Haynes Irwin
Everything dictated silence and self-control but I couldn't restrain myself and spoke my mind.
— Philip Roth
I'd like to restrain from cruelty and not be thanked." ~ Katsa
— Kristin Cashore
The raging fire which urged us on was scorching us; it would have burned us had we failed to restrain it.
— Giacomo Casanova
But at the heart of character is the ability to restrain our desires. As a man grows in character, he builds the muscles of self-restraint.
— Richard E. Simmons III
No state empowered to do what is supposedly necessary will restrain itself to those things. It will expand as much as public opinion will tolerate.
— Llewellyn Rockwell
Restrain expectations to restrict regrets.
— Chandrashekar
Delayed gratification the ability to control yourself or restrain yourself from getting an instant benefit.
— Sunday Adelaja
I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.
— Cato The Younger
Our company was mortgaged to the hilt, and that did restrain us, and it's why we had to take in partners.
— Gina Rinehart
A beast barely able to restrain itself carried a risk to its master.
— Robert Ferrigno
Being able to restrain my emotions isn't a great victory - it's the pitiful proof of lost love.
— Amy Tan
A rainbow looks good because the colours demonstrate restrain. Otherwise it would be an ugly blob.
— Arindam Mukherjee
I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
— Lois McMaster Bujold
With how many things are we on the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries.
— Mary Shelley
When More had said that a man who cannot restrain his passions is essentially cruel, he spoke the truth.
— Jean Plaidy
Curb your speech, restrain your mind, commit no evil deed.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
The one who can't restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do." -Horace
— Genna Rulon
I am possessed by one insatiable passion , which I cannot restrain nor would I if I could ... I cannot get enough books .
— Francesco Petrarca
It may be true that the law cannot change the heart, but it can restrain the heartless.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
A learned man who doesn't restrain his passions is like a blind man holding a torch, he guides others but not himself.
— Shaykh Sa Di
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
The object of a Constitution is to restrain the Government, as that of laws is to restrain individuals.
— John C. Calhoun
Then, everlasting Love , restrain thy will; 'Tis god -like to have power, but not to kill.
— John Fletcher
Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
It is difficult to restrain admirers of Shakespeare once they have begun to speak of him.
— Karen Blixen
No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.
— Thomas Jefferson
I call on the people of Tripoli to restrain themselves and not get drawn into conflict with anyone.
— Najib Mikati
He sensed that his own reticence would make it easier to restrain others.
— David Halberstam
Self-control is the ability to restrain a laugh at the wrong place.
— Elbert Hubbard
Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
— Cato The Younger
Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Canada was regarded as a hostage to restrain Britain,
— Barbara W. Tuchman
The old question still remains: Can a free people restrain crime without sacrificing fundamental liberties and a heritage of compassion?
— Gerald R. Ford
For parents to restrain the inclinations of their children in marriage is an usurped power.
— Henry Fielding
If one is unable to buy Courvoisier, one should forcibly restrain oneself from serving strawberries Romanoff for dessert.
— Harlan Ellison
In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude.
— George Washington
Have you ever noticed that our maximum loss of energy occurs when we try torestrain the flow of whatever that is coming from within? — Deep Trivedi
Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.
— Baruch Spinoza
It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
— Seneca The Younger
Marriage like government is a series of compromises. One must give and take, repair and restrain, endure and be patient.
— Samuel Smiles
It takes a stronger person to restrain from retaliation, then opposing to someone who's filled with vengeance
— Takina Cupp
Tell me, Rose. Who did this? On his knees a mere two feet from her, he had to restrain himself again from pulling her into his arms.
— Melanie Dickerson
There are two ways to make people richer, reasoned Rousseau: to give them more money or to restrain their desires.
— Alain De Botton
It's in the nature of television to restrain the spontaneity of a live event. Things become more and more prepackaged.
— Bill Condon
Never, for fear of feeble man, restrain your witness.
— Charles Spurgeon
What is freedom, in the end, but that no one cares any longer to try to restrain us?
— Naomi Alderman
It's amazing how willingly one can tell to a new face, and how restrained one may be from telling a familiar one.
— Lauren Lola
