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While none of us knows what that (decision) will be, our shared hope and expectation is that, regardless of the decision, people on all sides show tolerance, mutual respect and restraint, this is not the time to turn on each other. – Jay Nixon	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
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	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy. – Lady Mary Wortley Montagu	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself. – Henry Adams	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Women should be permitted to volunteer for non-combat service, they should not be accepted, voluntarily or through the draft, as combat soldiers. We know of no comparable ways of training women and girls, and we have no real way of knowing whether the kinds of training that teach men both courage and restraint would be adaptable to women or effective in a crisis. But the evidence of history and comparative studies of other species suggest that women as a fighting body might be far less amenable to the rules that prevent warfare from becoming a massacre and, with the use of modern weapons, that protect the survival of all humanity. This is what I meant by saying that women in combat might be too fierce. – Margaret Mead	added by anonymous 10 years ago
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	added by anonymous 10 years ago
In the body restraint is good; good is restraint in speech; in thought restraint is good: good is restraint in all things. – The Dhammapada	added by anonymous 12 years ago
By rousing himself, by earnestness, by restraint and control the wise man may make for himself an island which no flood can overwhelm. – The Dhammapada	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Law does not put the least restraint Upon our freedom, but maintain?st; Or, if it does, ?tis for our good, To give us freer latitude: For wholesome laws preserve us free, By stinting of our liberty. – Butler	added by anonymous 12 years ago
The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. – Theodore Roosevelt	added by anonymous 13 years ago
It took me twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public. – George Bernard Shaw	added by anonymous 13 years ago
In all the important preparations of the mind she was complete: being prepared for matrimony by an hatred of home, restraint, and tranquillity; by the misery of disappointed affection, and contempt of the man she was to marry. – Jane Austen, Mansfield Park	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The best leader is the one who has the sense to surround himself with outstanding people and self-restraint not to meddle with how they do their jobs. – Author Unknown	added by anonymous 13 years ago
For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success impossible by their own cross-grained ungentleness; whilst others, it may be much less gifted, make their way and achieve success by simple patience, equanimity, and self-control. – Smiles	added by anonymous 13 years ago
In this age when there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war, we must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint. – Lyndon B. Johnson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. – Theodore Roosevelt	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have right that these wants should be provided for, including the want of a sufficient restraint upon their passions. – Edmund Burke	added by anonymous 14 years ago
An act of terrorism totally outside the bounds of international law and diplomatic tradition. ... a crisis that calls for firmness and restraint. – James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men the most. – Thucyclides	added by anonymous 14 years ago
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 Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Marriage teaches you loyalty, forbearance, self-restraint, meekness, and a great many other things you wouldn't need if you had stayed single. – Jimmy Townsend	added by anonymous 14 years ago

While none of us knows what that (decision) will be, our shared hope and expectation is that, regardless of the decision, people on all sides show tolerance, mutual respect and restraint, this is not the time to turn on each other.

– Jay Nixon

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy.

– Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

– Henry Adams

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Women should be permitted to volunteer for non-combat service, they should not be accepted, voluntarily or through the draft, as combat soldiers. We know of no comparable ways of training women and girls, and we have no real way of knowing whether the kinds of training that teach men both courage and restraint would be adaptable to women or effective in a crisis. But the evidence of history and comparative studies of other species suggest that women as a fighting body might be far less amenable to the rules that prevent warfare from becoming a massacre and, with the use of modern weapons, that protect the survival of all humanity. This is what I meant by saying that women in combat might be too fierce.

– Margaret Mead

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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

added by anonymous
10 years ago

In the body restraint is good; good is restraint in speech; in thought restraint is good: good is restraint in all things.

– The Dhammapada

added by anonymous
12 years ago

By rousing himself, by earnestness, by restraint and control the wise man may make for himself an island which no flood can overwhelm.

– The Dhammapada

added by anonymous
12 years ago

Law does not put the least restraint Upon our freedom, but maintain?st; Or, if it does, ?tis for our good, To give us freer latitude: For wholesome laws preserve us free, By stinting of our liberty.

– Butler

added by anonymous
12 years ago

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

– Theodore Roosevelt

added by anonymous
13 years ago

It took me twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public.

– George Bernard Shaw

added by anonymous
13 years ago

In all the important preparations of the mind she was complete: being prepared for matrimony by an hatred of home, restraint, and tranquillity; by the misery of disappointed affection, and contempt of the man she was to marry.

– Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The best leader is the one who has the sense to surround himself with outstanding people and self-restraint not to meddle with how they do their jobs.

– Author Unknown

added by anonymous
13 years ago

For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success impossible by their own cross-grained ungentleness; whilst others, it may be much less gifted, make their way and achieve success by simple patience, equanimity, and self-control.

– Smiles

added by anonymous
13 years ago

In this age when there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war, we must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint.

– Lyndon B. Johnson