A Quote by Barbara Kingsolver

restraint equals indulgence

Barbara Kingsolver

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Equals Indulgence Restraint

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Barbara Kingsolver
American - Novelist
Born: April 8, 1955

Self-restraint is indulgence of the propensity to forgo.

Ambrose Bierce

It dawned upon me that fasting could be made as powerful a weapon of indulgence as of restraint

Mahatma Gandhi

Love increases through righteous restraint and decreases through impulsive indulgence.

David A. Bednar

There is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint.

Mahatma Gandhi

Attention equals importance equals value equals ego. Or, more realistically, Attention equals success.

Cris Mazza

Alright, remember, alcohol equals puke equals smelly mess equals nobody likes you.

Adam Sandler

Members of royal families are born into a world of indulgence and entitlement, and the princelings who grow up that way may never have to develop the emotional musculature that will allow them to show self-restraint.

Jeffrey Kluger

Restraint never ruins one's health. What ruins it,is not restraint but outward suppression. A really self-restrained person grows every day from strength to strength and from peace to more peace. The very first step in self-restraint is the restraint of thoughts.

Mahatma Gandhi

Bush equals Clinton equals Bush equals Obama equals Clinton. It's the same policies...immigration policies that may turn us into Europe, where hordes of Islamic madmen are raping, killing, pillaging, defecating in public fountains, harassing private citizens, elderly people - that's what's coming.

Roger Stone

Remember there is always a limit to self-indulgence, none to restraint... Civilization , in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication but in the deliberate and voluntary restriction of wants. This alone promotes real happiness and contentment , and increases the capacity for service .

Mahatma Gandhi

Our society's values are being corrupted by advertising's insistence on the equation: youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness.

John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher

Excessive indulgence to others, especially to children is in fact only self-indulgence under an alias.

Augustus William Hare

The Tea Party, which is pretty darn clear on its main focus, which is fiscal restraint, financial restraint, economic restraint, and return to Constitutional values and Founding Fathers' principles, had been impugned as racist, violent, homophobic, and all their motivations have been impugned.