Restrained Quotes

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

“A faint smile played on his lips. "Obedience does not come naturally to you, does it""No...sir""I must take some blame for that, I suppose. The sea does not like to be restrained.”

“Thus his belief was that in a service where feeling could be restrained it ought to be restrained. The power of God was more likely to be known in a solemn stillness than amid noise and excitement. Silence and an expectant seriousness, born of a realisation of the nearness of God, were striking characteristics of the services at Sandfields.”

“The sea does not like to be restrained. ”

“There hung about her the restrained energy of a whiplash.”

“smiling a smile full of things restrained”

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

“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.”

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

“There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all things that limit government. Government is the enemy of liberty. Government should be very restrained.”