#restrain

If I have a look around at the moment I feel great relief because finally others are entering the limelight. Men like Robert Pattinson must now play the Adonis. For me it was always a restraint, a restriction. ↗

— Jude Law

#around #because #entering #feel #finally

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom. ↗

— John Locke

#beings #capable #created #end #enlarge

Marching thus at night, a battalion is doubly impressive. The silent monster is full of restrained power; resolute in its onward sweep, impervious to danger, it looks a menacing engine of destruction, steady to its goal, and certain of its mission. ↗

— Patrick MacGill

#certain #danger #destruction #doubly #engine

I do not see any beauty in self-restraint. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#beauty #i #i do #see #self-restraint

We are all bound to the throne of the Supreme Being by a flexible chain which restrains without enslaving us. The most wonderful aspect of the universal scheme of things is the action of free beings under divine guidance. ↗

— Joseph de Maistre

#aspect #being #beings #bound #chain

There is a Passion natural to the Mind of man, especially a free Man, which renders him impatient of Restraint. ↗

— George Mason

#free #free man #him #impatient #man

Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves. ↗

— Henry Miller

#fear #finding #full #give #hope

Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire. ↗

— Henry Miller

#fire #honest #means #nothing #passion

It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#find #i #less #lust #many

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. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

#comfort #common #common enemy #cordial #deny