Quotes about Restraint
In biblical times, they used to stone a few thirteen-year-olds with some regularity, which helped keep the others quiet and at home. The mothers were usually in the first row of stone throwers, and had to be restrained.
— Anne Lamott
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.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
I want to be free Michael, just for once in my whole life I want to be free" "You are free. You just don't know it yet
— Francine Rivers
Never laughing too loudly in a restaurant no matter how good the joke.
— Paulo Coelho
I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.
— John F. Kennedy
The Greek word used to translate the Aramaic word for meekness, which Jesus used in the Prophetic Blessing, was the word used for an animal that had been tamed and brought under the control of the bit and reins of its master. Meekness is power under control!
— John Hagee
Give me women, wine and snuff Until I cry out hold, enough You may do so san objection Till the day of resurrection; For bless my beard then aye shall be My beloved Trinity.
— John Keats
Ours is peculiarly an age of irreverence, and as the consequence, the spirit of lawlessness, which brooks no restraint and which is desirous of casting off everything which interferes with the free course of self-will, is rapidly engulfing the earth like some giant tidal
— AW Pink
God bears long with the wicked notwithstanding the multitude of their sin, and shall we desire to be revenged because of a single injury?
— AW Pink
Bind up thy words that they run not riot, and grow wanton, and gather up sins for themselves in too much talking. Let them be rather confined, and held back within their own banks. An overflowing river quickly gathers mud.
— Ambrose of Milan
You (God) have not only commanded continence, that is, from what things we are to restrain our love, but also justice, that is, on what we are to bestow our love.
— St. Augustine
Moderation is commonly firm, and firmness is commonly successful.
— Samuel Johnson