Quotes about Restrained

She was floating as the sea of pleasure took her out upon its rising tide and when she became aware of herself again it was to the feel of Zac behind her, supporting her weight by holding her under her arms." (Barely Restrained, 2011)" Votes: 3

Peace is restrained." Votes: 1

The sea does not like to be restrained." Votes: 1

Not exactly hit them, but I've restrained a few people." Votes: 1

No. No, I don't want my hands restrained.""Yes. You do." Votes: 1

Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal. Votes: 1

Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal." Votes: 1

Naked and restrained, this darkness cannot be contained, you, my esclave, have been claimed.." Votes: 1

For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community." Votes: 1

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained." Votes: 1

Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained. Votes: 1

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it. Votes: 1

Limited government, low taxes, controlled spending and debt, and a restrained regulatory environment make Texas work." Votes: 1

If you live up to your privileges, the angels cannot be restrained from being your associates." Votes: 1

Limited government, low taxes, controlled spending and debt, and a restrained regulatory environment make Texas work. Votes: 1

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it." Votes: 1

I like period drama because everyone is so restrained, but they have all these emotions raging underneath. Votes: 1

I like period drama because everyone is so restrained, but they have all these emotions raging underneath." Votes: 1

In my life, the strongest evidence of any fandom is 'Sherlock' - 'Hobbit' fans are positively restrained. Votes: 1

The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language. Votes: 1

They wished that someone would look at them like Bo looks at me, with unrestrained pride and love." Votes: 1

I sometimes ponder on variation form and it seems to me it ought to be more restrained, purer. Votes: 1

Pink ribbon scarsThat never forgetI've tried so hardTo cleanse these regretsMy angel wingsWere bruised and restrainedMy belly stings" Votes: 1

It's not subtle or restrained. It's not any of the things you like to think apply to your acting. Votes: 1

The gospel alone liberates you to live a life of scandalous generosity, unrestrained sacrifice, uncommon valor, and unbounded courage." Votes: 1

One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness. Votes: 1

One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness." Votes: 1

That's the one nice thing about being a dork about men: you can sometimes play it off as restrained and classy." Votes: 1

She smiled at the idea of being a captive princess in the rookeries, or a restrained mouse in the glitter of the ton." Votes: 1

When anger rushes unrestrained to action, like a hot steed, it stumbles on its way. The man of thought strikes deepest and strikes safely." Votes: 1

True security lies in the unrestrained embrace of insecurity - in the recognition that we never really stand on solid ground, and never can." Votes: 1

I have, perhaps, a slave-like constitution which is too easily restrained by bonds; it then becomes rebellious and bursts out in a comic revolution." Votes: 1

The first, and overarching, count in the new indictment is that slavery permitted one group of people to exercise unrestrained personal domination over another group of people." Votes: 1

There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all things that limit government. Government is the enemy of liberty. Government should be very restrained. Votes: 1

I find that socialism is often misunderstood by its least intelligent supporters and opponents to mean simply unrestrained indulgence of our natural propensity to heave bricks at respectable persons." Votes: 1

If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself. Votes: 1

How deep and sticky is the darkness of childhood, how rigid the blades of infant evil, which is unadulterated, unrestrained by the convenient cushions of age and its civilizing anesthesia." Votes: 1

They agreed on a rendezvous, and Laurent took off with the restrained urgency of a man who has to find some way to hide sixteen hands of bay gelding behind a shrub." Votes: 1

To do great things, a person needs invariably his heart pain to activate his human brain to train his life to remain unrestrained to do only the activity that soothes his soul." Votes: 1

I dropped all the guards. All the leashes, all the chains, everything that ever restrained me through the discipline and fear of discovery, I let it all go. No need to hide." Votes: 1

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers." Votes: 1

Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate." Votes: 1

Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate. Votes: 1

To hell, to hell with balance! I break glasses; I want to burn, even if I break myself. I want to live only for ecstasy. I'm neurotic, perverted, destructive, fiery, dangerous - lava, inflammable, unrestrained." Votes: 1

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots. Votes: 1

Anyone who has set out to invent a purely imaginary story knows that the whole thing is fantasy, from beginning to end; there must be a sense of magic created about the most restrained of naturalism. Votes: 1

Will restrained a desire to leap in at this point and tell her that an inability to hold down a relationship was indicative of an undervalued kind of moral courage, that only cool people screwed up." Votes: 1

Many years spent listening to the tribulations of man have persuaded me that the satisfaction of all desires is completely counterproductive to happiness. Instant and unrestrained gratification is the shortest and most direct route to unhappiness." Votes: 1

Man is not made better by being degraded; he is seldom restrained from crime by harsh measures, except the principle of fear predominates in his character, and then he is never made radically better for its influence. Votes: 1

You should have me restrained,' she said. 'I could kill you. You never know when I might have a razor blade tucked up my sleeve.''Why kill me now?' Archie said. 'It would seem anticlimactic." Votes: 1

Real laughter is spontaneous. Like water from the spring it bubbles forth a creation of mingled action and spontaneity - two magic potions in themselves - the very essence of laughter - the unrestrained emotion within us!" Votes: 1

When I was making 'Star Wars,' I wasn't restrained by any kind of science. I simply said, 'I'm going to create a world that's fun and interesting, makes sense, and seems to have a reality to it.' Votes: 1

Government spending is being restrained, the economy is making progress and moving forward, and the pro-growth, tax cutting policies put in place have allowed businesses to grow, which has brought in additional tax revenue to help pay off the debt." Votes: 1

There is little hope of the repentance and redemption of certain some until they have committed one or another of the many wrong things of which they are daily, through a course of unrestrained selfishness, becoming more and more capable." Votes: 1

Marching thus at night, a battalion is doubly impressive. The silent monster is full of restrained power; resolute in its onward sweep, impervious to danger, it looks a menacing engine of destruction, steady to its goal, and certain of its mission." Votes: 1

It'd be a good setting to jump overboard,' said Dick mildly.'Wouldn't it?' agreed Nicole hastily. 'Let's borrow life-preservers and jump over. I think we should do something spectacular. I feel that all our lives have been too restrained." Votes: 1

Marching thus at night, a battalion is doubly impressive. The silent monster is full of restrained power; resolute in its onward sweep, impervious to danger, it looks a menacing engine of destruction, steady to its goal, and certain of its mission. Votes: 1

He picked up the skull and knocked an onion ring out of its eye socketI see Sophie has been busy again. Couldn't you have restrained her, my friend?" The skull yattered its teeth at him. Howl put it down rather hastily." Votes: 1

History is a hermaphrodite with many distinguished lovers. We are neither mysteries nor strangers but the living breath of revelation made flesh by the unrestrained desires of a free and universal love. Universal me. Universal you."--from Past Present and Future are One" Votes: 1

Al Qaeda is nothing more than a mutant supply chain. They're playing off the same platform as Wal-Mart and Dell. They're just not restrained by it. What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain. Votes: 1

In monarchies, each man's desire to do what was right in his own eyes could be restrained by beer, or force, by patronage, or by honor, and by professional standing armies. By contrast, republics had to hold themselves together from the bottom up, ultimately." Votes: 1

On the field, aggression can sometimes be a positive emotion. It boosts performance and can lift your game. But over the years, I have learnt that restrained aggression is a better animal. That way, you will conserve your energy and won't spend yourself quickly. Votes: 1

I'll tell you where the injustice is. It's with the person earning 拢12,000 to 拢15,000-a-year who is being asked to be restrained by their business or employer. Yet the taxpayer has bailed out the banks, so why are they not showing restraint? Votes: 1

A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death." Votes: 1

For me, style is essentially doing things well. If you want to be outrageous, be outrageous with style. If you want to be restrained, be restrained with style. One can't specifically define style. It's like the perfume to a flower. It's a quality you can't analyze. Votes: 1

For me, style is essentially doing things well. If you want to be outrageous, be outrageous with style. If you want to be restrained, be restrained with style. One can't specifically define style. It's like the perfume to a flower. It's a quality you can't analyze." Votes: 1

Every state has an undoubted right to determine the status, or domestic and social condition, of the persons domiciled within its territory except insofar as the powers of the states in this respect are restrained, or duties and obligations imposed upon them, by the Constitution of the United States. Votes: 1

She tried to act as though it were nothing to go to the library alone. But her happiness betrayed her. Her smile could not be restrained, and it spread from her tightly pressed mouth, to her round cheeks, almost to the hair ribbons tied in perky bows over her ears." Votes: 1

But as his wife - at his side always, and always restrained, and always checked - forced to keep the fire of my nature continually low, to compel it to burn inwardly and never utter a cry, though the imprisoned flame consumed vital after vital - this would be unendurable." Votes: 1

The rescue of a person, who is assaulted, or restrained of his liberty, without authority of law, is not only morally, but legally, a meritorious act; for every body is under obligation to go to the assistance of one who is assailed by assassins, robbers, ravishers, kidnappers, or ruffians of any kind. Votes: 1

Between the Great Depression and the 1970s, private business was viewed with suspicion even in most capitalist economies.Businesses were, so the story goes, seen as anti-social agents whose profit-seeking needed to be restrained for other, supposedly loftier, goals, such as justice, social harmony, protection of the weak and even national glory." Votes: 1

He cupped my face and closed the gap between us nestling his nose next to mine. I felt my heart in my throat, beating at full speedNo." I restrained him, raising my right arm against his chest. David moved slightly back, staring deep into my eyesYou'll be the death of me. I swear it." Votes: 1

I had seen 'Do the Right Thing' when I was at college, and it was incredibly inspiring as a piece of cinema. Just brilliant, I thought. But saw 'Malcolm X' with a crowded audience. It was my first time in an American cinema, hearing an audience respond. You know, in England, everyone is so restrained. Votes: 1

Al Qaeda is nothing more than a mutant supply chain. They're playing off the same platform as Wal-Mart and Dell. They're just not restrained by it. What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain. That's what we're up against in Iraq. We're up against a suicide supply chain. Votes: 1

[About the great synthesis of atomic physics in the 1920s]It was a heroic time. It was not the doing of any one man; it involved the collaboration of scores of scientists from many different lands. But from the first to last the deeply creative, subtle and critical spirit of Niels Bohr guided, restrained, deepened and finally transmuted the enterprise." Votes: 1

He started skipping, but then caught himself and returned to deliberately pacing out his steps with his sheathed sword. People might ignore a tiny Japanese man in an orange porkpie hat and socks, with a sword, but if you went around expressing unrestrained joy, they would have you in a straightjacket before you could belt out a verse of "Zippity Do-Dah." Votes: 1

Those who have little interest in spirituality shouldn't think that human inner values don't apply to you. The inner peace of an alert and calm mind are the source of real happiness and good health. Our human intelligence tells us which of our emotions are positive and helpful and which are damaging and to be restrained or avoided. - 12/7/2012 on his Facebook page" Votes: 1

In that brief glance Vronsky had time to notice the restrained animation that played over her face and fluttered between her shining eyes and the barely noticeable smile that curved her red lips. It was as if a surplus of something so overflowed her being that it expressed itself beyond her will, now in the brightness of her glance, now in her smile." Votes: 1

A person is never as quiet or unrestrained as they seem, or as bad or good, as vulnerable or as strong, as sweet or as feisty; we are thickly layered, page lying upon page, behind simple covers. And love - it is not the book itself, but the binding. It can rip us apart or hold us together...Layers, by their nature, are fragile things." Votes: 1

I miss the Stella girls telling me what I am. That I'm sweet and placid and accommodating and loyal and nonthreatening and good to have around. And Mia. I want her to say, "Frankie, you're silly, you're lazy, you're talented, you're passionate, you're restrained, you're blossoming, you're contrary."I want to be an adjective again. But I'm a noun. A nothing. A nobody. A no one." Votes: 1

Peace is restrained; this is free. Votes: 0

The sea does not like to be restrained. Votes: 0

Through talk, we tamed kings, restrained tyrants, averted revolution Votes: 0

There hung about her the restrained energy of a whiplash. Votes: 0

Not exactly hit them, but I've restrained a few people. Votes: 0

True humility is not in the absence of confidence but strength restrained. Votes: 0

Dance releases energy mobilized by the fight-or-flight stress response that was otherwise restrained. Votes: 0

All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense. Votes: 0

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained. Votes: 0

Fancy restrained may be compared to a fountain, which plays highest by diminishing the aperture. Votes: 0

The ungodly are not half so restrained in their blasphemy as we are in our praise. Votes: 0

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it. Votes: 0

If you live up to your privileges, the angels cannot be restrained from being your associates. Votes: 0

One must learn to give up momentary, uncertain and destructive pleasure for delayed, restrained, but dependable pleasure. Votes: 0

I like period drama because everyone is so restrained, but they have all these emotions raging underneath. Votes: 0

Governments can be useful to the governed only so long as inherent tendencies toward tyranny are restrained. Votes: 0

Laws abridging the natural right of the citizen should be restrained by rigorous constructions within their narrowest limits. Votes: 0

Beating yourself up over every perceived mistake is the work of an internal abuser who must be restrained and reformed. Votes: 0

One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness Votes: 0

That's the one nice thing about being a dork about men: you can sometimes play it off as restrained and classy. Votes: 0

Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign. Votes: 0

May I consider the wise man rich, and may I have such wealth as only the self-restrained man can bear or endure. Votes: 0

The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments. Votes: 0

Plants and animals repeat routine, but men who are not restrained will go into the future like explorers into a new country. Votes: 0

You will eat not to satisfy your palate but your hunger. A self-indulgent man lives to eat; a self-restrained man eats to live. Votes: 0

I have, perhaps, a slave-like constitution which is too easily restrained by bonds; it then becomes rebellious and bursts out in a comic revolution. Votes: 0

Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death. Votes: 0

Let's borrow life preservers and jump over. I think we should do something spectacular. I feel that all our lives have been too restrained. Votes: 0

Wit, like hunger, will be with great difficulty restrained from falling on vice and ignorance, where there is great plenty and variety of food. Votes: 0

Except when physically restrained, a person is least free or dignified when he is under threat of punishment, and unfortunately most people often are. Votes: 0

… he remained restrained and strangely composed. It was a composure born of extreme provocation. It stemmed from a lucidity that lies beyond rage. Votes: 0

I wanted to retain my individuality. I was afraid of being hampered by studio policies. I knew if someone else got control, I would be restrained. Votes: 0

[You have Rights] antecedent to all earthly governments: Rights, that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws; Rights, derived from the Great Legislator of the universe. Votes: 0

Every wave of passion restrained is a balance in your favor. It is therefore good policy not to return anger for anger, as with all true morality. Votes: 0

Had you restrained your love, you would be free of sorrow. The greater the love, while one possesses it, the greater the sorrow when one is deprived of it. Votes: 0

I hope that each one of us will be a better husband or wife, kinder to one another, more thoughtful, more restrained in criticism, and more generous with compliments. Votes: 0

He who, though dressed in fine apparel, exercises tranquillity, is quiet, subdued, restrained, chaste, and has ceased to find fault with all other beings, he indeed is an ascetic. Votes: 0

We can either have a free Parliament or a free people. Personal freedom requires that all authority is restrained by long-run principles which the opinion of the people approves. Votes: 0

Jesus was restrained by the Father to do only what the Father was doing, and You are to be restrained by the Spirit to do only what Jesus is doing! Votes: 0

The people shall not be restrained from peacefully assembling and consulting for their common good, nor from applying to the legislature by petitions, or remonstrances for redress of their grievances. Votes: 0

We have now learned that rashness and imprudence will not be deterred from taking credit; let us try whether fraud and avarice may be more easily restrained from giving it. Votes: 0

Coquetry is the essential characteristic, and the prevalent humor of women; but they do not all practice it, because the coquetry of some is restrained by fear or by reason. Votes: 0

A Mormon is a man that has the bad taste and the religion to do what a good many other people are restrained from doing by conscientious scruples and the police. Votes: 0

Life is livable because we know that wherever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions towards us by an almost instinctive network of taboos. Votes: 0

Walking through the Capitol Building gives you a sense of how it all began here. It was reassuring to see how restrained it was. It was very humble in a way. Votes: 0

I dropped all the guards. All the leashes, all the chains, everything that ever restrained me through the discipline and fear of discovery, I let it all go. No need to hide. Votes: 0

Advocates of capitalism like to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate. Votes: 0

I am entirely persuaded that the American public is more reasonable, restrained and mature than most of the broadcast industry's planners believe. Their fear of controversy is not warranted by the evidence. Votes: 0

The only thing that restrains you is fear, Anton Gorodetsky. For yourself, or for people - that's not important. But we are restrained by horror. And that is why we observe the Treaty. Votes: 0

Each moment is a moment of choice ~ a time to leave the old, the limited, the restrained, and the contracted for the new, the unbound, and the liberating potential that expands before you. Votes: 0

The Founders never intended for Americans to trust their government. Our entire Constitution was predicated on the notion that government was a necessary evil, to be restrained and minimized as much as possible. Votes: 0

Let, then, the word be preached, and the sins of men will be rebuked, lust will be restrained, and some oppositions will be made against sin, though that be not the effect aimed at. Votes: 0

Exuberance is Beauty." "If a thing loves, it is infinite." "Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained." "The lust of the goat is the bounty of God. Votes: 0

The idea that we industrialized humans are immune to the natural laws that have restrained growth in other species-and humans in past social regimes-is to me so self-servingly blind as to be morally reprehensible. Votes: 0

It's funny, people don't think of 'Cloverfield' as being restrained because it's a handycam movie, but the only reason it's a handycam movie is because that was supposed to be the reality of the situation. Votes: 0

I am now a fundamentalist American; give me time and I will tell you why individualism, laissez-faire and the slightly restrained anarchy of capitalism offer the best opportunities for the development of the human spirit. Votes: 0