Top 200 Restrained Quotes & Sayings

Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

It's not subtle or restrained. It's not any of the things you like to think apply to your acting.

Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

I sometimes ponder on variation form and it seems to me it ought to be more restrained, purer.

The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.

For me, style is essentially doing things well. If you want to be outrageous, be outrageous with style. If you want to be restrained, be restrained with style. One can't specifically define style. It's like the perfume to a flower. It's a quality you can't analyze.

I keep a band of great young people around me, and we're not musically restrained. It's not about 'Let's do it correct' but 'Let's do it right.'

The ungodly are not half so restrained in their blasphemy as we are in our praise.

If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.

I wanted to retain my individuality. I was afraid of being hampered by studio policies. I knew if someone else got control, I would be restrained.

Stiles is a version of me that rarely exists in the real world. He's so confident and extroverted, and I'm much more restrained and internal.

True humility is not in the absence of confidence but strength restrained.

Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

One must learn to give up momentary, uncertain and destructive pleasure for delayed, restrained, but dependable pleasure.

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.

I like period drama because everyone is so restrained, but they have all these emotions raging underneath.

A Mormon is a man that has the bad taste and the religion to do what a good many other people are restrained from doing by conscientious scruples and the police.

The people shall not be restrained from peacefully assembling and consulting for their common good, nor from applying to the legislature by petitions, or remonstrances for redress of their grievances.

Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.

All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.

Laws abridging the natural right of the citizen should be restrained by rigorous constructions within their narrowest limits.

The most important connection I can see between my faith and my work is that in the progress of my day, I try to be restrained and mindful of every person's humanity and of the overwhelming challenge of pride.

Not exactly hit them, but I've restrained a few people.

Comedy shouldn't be restrained under the belt of normality.

There hung about her the restrained energy of a whiplash.

In Macbeth a lady is restrained from the murder of a king by his resemblance of her father as he slept. Should not all men be restrained from acts of violence and even of unkindness against their fellow men by observing in them something which resembles the Savior of the World? If nothing else certainly, a human figure?

Conservatives who care about nominations of judges who practice judicial restraint are, constitutionally, restrained people themselves.

A flexible exchange rate is important, and it shouldn't be artificially restrained because of the needs of the economy.

Through talk, we tamed kings, restrained tyrants, averted revolution

We have now learned that rashness and imprudence will not be deterred from taking credit; let us try whether fraud and avarice may be more easily restrained from giving it.

The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.

Governments can be useful to the governed only so long as inherent tendencies toward tyranny are restrained.

The only thing that restrains you is fear, Anton Gorodetsky. For yourself, or for people - that's not important. But we are restrained by horror. And that is why we observe the Treaty.

In my life, the strongest evidence of any fandom is 'Sherlock' - 'Hobbit' fans are positively restrained.

One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness.

Coquetry is the essential characteristic, and the prevalent humor of women; but they do not all practice it, because the coquetry of some is restrained by fear or by reason.

Limited government, low taxes, controlled spending and debt, and a restrained regulatory environment make Texas work.

Except when physically restrained, a person is least free or dignified when he is under threat of punishment, and unfortunately most people often are.

The tentacles of Islamic State are far-reaching, and the restrained and tepid international response that Mr. Obama has pursued will not eliminate this terrorist organization.

… he remained restrained and strangely composed. It was a composure born of extreme provocation. It stemmed from a lucidity that lies beyond rage.

That’s the one nice thing about being a dork about men: you can sometimes play it off as restrained and classy.

Life is livable because we know that wherever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions towards us by an almost instinctive network of taboos.

DAKS is a much more restrained silhouette, and there's a real emphasis on daywear, outerwear, and tailoring. It's more stripped-down.

Jesus was restrained by the Father to do only what the Father was doing, and You are to be restrained by the Spirit to do only what Jesus is doing!

Peace is restrained; this is free.

The sea does not like to be restrained.

One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness

I dropped all the guards. All the leashes, all the chains, everything that ever restrained me through the discipline and fear of discovery, I let it all go. No need to hide.

For the government, there is the frustration of not being a full part of the anti-Isis coalition. For ministers to have their position restrained by our parliament is an embarrassment with their international colleagues.

Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

I have, perhaps, a slave-like constitution which is too easily restrained by bonds; it then becomes rebellious and bursts out in a comic revolution.

Plants and animals repeat routine, but men who are not restrained will go into the future like explorers into a new country.

Fancy restrained may be compared to a fountain, which plays highest by diminishing the aperture.

Dance releases energy mobilized by the fight-or-flight stress response that was otherwise restrained.

If you live up to your privileges, the angels cannot be restrained from being your associates.

We are feeble, weak and impoverished because of our failure to pray. God is restrained in doing because we are restrained by reason of our non-praying. All failures in securing heaven are traceable to lack of prayer or misdirected petition.

Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.

He who, though dressed in fine apparel, exercises tranquillity, is quiet, subdued, restrained, chaste, and has ceased to find fault with all other beings, he indeed is an ascetic.

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

The intention behind 'The Witch' was to be very restrained. I think that story, while it sometimes annoys me, needed to take itself incredibly seriously.