#restraint

Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating. ↗

— Bob Filner

#best #better #childhood #diet #eating

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint. ↗

— Daniel Webster

#liberty #proportion #restraint #wholesome

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

— Cedric Hardwicke

#happen #love #love scene #might #must

Agents need to be free to pursue investigations in ways that they haven't. There have been restraints that a reformed FBI needs to make sure we don't impose. ↗

— John Ashcroft

#been #fbi #free #haven #impose

Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action; and bidding an Affectionate farewell to this August body under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my Commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life. (Address to Congress on Resigning Commission Dec 23, 1783) ↗

— George Washington

#humility #patriotism #restraint #freedom

To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them! ↗

— Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#deserve #die #front #going #hell

I like restraint, if it doesn't go too far. ↗

— Mae West

#go #i #like #restraint #too

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

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

— Muhammad Iqbal

#evolution #only #preliminary #self-restraint #sexual

At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving. ↗