#restrain

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace. ↗

— Andre Gide

#combat #direct #easier #labors #lead

I try to play characters who are different from myself, so I feel like this character is someone who is really different. I actually think that if I did what he did in this movie, I would get a restraining order put against me. ↗

— Ryan Gosling

#against #character #characters #did #different

Addressing global resentment cannot be put off. If we do not learn to use our predominant power with great restraint, we will antagonize the world. ↗

— Lee H. Hamilton

#antagonize #cannot #global #great #learn

Actors must practice restraint, else think what might happen in a love scene. ↗

— Cedric Hardwicke

#happen #love #love scene #might #must

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#another #caresses #die #expressions #leaves

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do. ↗

— Horace

#cannot #irritation #prompted #restrain #temper

The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#imagination #itself #limits #probability #restrains

Patience means restraining one's inclinations. ↗

— Tokugawa Ieyasu

#means #patience #restraining

Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution. ↗