Restraint Quotes

You may chant and meditate, practice austerities and self-restraint, and dwell at sacred shrines of pilgrimage; you may give donations to charity, and perform good deeds, but without the True One, what is the use of it all? - Sri Guru Granth Sahib

You can even see the officers kneeling on her to pull the restraints tighter. No there was no reason to put her in restraints. - Michael Lambert

Wou'd I were free from this restraint, Or else had hopes to win her; Wou'd she cou'd make me a saint, Or I of her a sinner. - William Congreve

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. - Albert Camus

Why do you think we should? This keeps us from getting information that may save American lives. This is a restraint by humanitarian do-gooders. Why don't we just throw them in the trash can and do what is necessary? We have developed sophisticated techniques that we could just go after these people and get what we need and save American lives, General? - John McCain

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

While our military forces have displayed extraordinary precision and restraint in deploying arms -- and apparently in securing the Oil Ministry and oil fields -- they have been nothing short of impotent in failing to attend to the protection of (Iraq's) cultural heritage. - Martin Sullivan

When the heat and motion of blind impulses and passions distract it on all sides, we can neither give nor receive anything truly. But when we find our centre in our soul by the power of self-restraint, by the force that harmonizes all warring element. - Rabindranath Tagore

When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something. - Robert Browning