Quotes with restraint

Quotes 21 till 29 of 29.

  • Joseph De Maistre The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must be sacrificed without end, without restraint, without respite until the consummation of the world, the extinction of evil, the death of death.
    Joseph De Maistre
    French diplomat and philosopher (1753 - 1821)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi There are limits to self-indulgence, none to restraint.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Arthur Keith There are the further difficulties of building a population out of a diversity of races, each at a different stage of cultural evolution, some in need of restraint, many in need of protection; everywhere a bewildering Babel of tongues.
    Arthur Keith
    Scottish anatomist and anthropologist (1866 - 1952)
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  • Algernon Sydney This submission is a restraint of liberty, but could be of no effect as to the good intended, unless it were general; nor general, unless it were natural.
    Algernon Sydney
    English politician (1623 - 1683)
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  • Louis Ferdinand Céline 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!
    Louis Ferdinand Céline
    French writer (1894 - 1961)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out the school of freedom, giveth more confidence of herself than she who comet sound out of the school of severity and restraint.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Kazuo Ishiguro What is pertinent is the calmness of beauty, its sense of restraint. It is as though the land knows of its own beauty, its own greatness, and feels no need to shout it.
    The Remains of the Day (2009) 23
    Kazuo Ishiguro
    English novelist and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Henry Miller Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Aaron Hill You talk no more of that gay nation now,
    Where men adore their wives, and woman's power
    Draws reverence from a polished people's softness,
    Their husbands' equals, and their lovers' queens;
    Free without scandal; wise without restraint;
    Their virtue due to nature, not to fear.
    Zara (1735) Act I, Sc. 1.
    Aaron Hill
    English dramatist and writer (1685 - 1750)
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