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Quotes About Restrained

Let, then, the word be preached, and the sins of men will be rebuked, lust will be restrained, and some oppositions will be made against sin, though that be not the effect aimed at.
~ John Owen
That's the one nice thing about being a dork about men: you can sometimes play it off as restrained and classy.
~ Mindy Kaling
I'm the sort of person who keeps a lot to myself.
~ Patrick Rafter
This may come as a surprise, given the nature of my job, but I am very guarded and contemplative. I'm not a naturally boisterous person.
~ Ed Helms
Less is more, in prose as in architecture.
~ Donald Hall
Love is supreme and unconditional. Like is nice, but limited.
~ Duke Ellington
Everyone's getting very excited, but in that educated way of not showing it.
~ Alastair Reynolds
at the core of whatever made this human atom pile smolder he wasn't cooking anymore. He was all bottled
~ Albert Goldman
the second place, it has, on another occasion, been shown that the federal legislature will not only be restrained by its dependence on its people, as other legislative bodies are, but that it will be, moreover, watched and controlled by the several collateral legislatures, which other legislative bodies are not.
~ Alexander Hamilton
I'm not one for neon colors.
~ Ashley Wagner
I'm actually quite conservative.
~ Peta Wilson
The passions smothered by modem civilization are doubly ferocious when awakened
~ Rex Stout
Every word I say has chains round its ankles; every thought I think is weighted with heavy weights.
~ Jean Rhys
I always try to be as discreet as possible, so I wear black.
~ Benjamin Clementine
I'm not that comfortable doing polemic or being strident.
~ Louis Theroux
What I see as specially English is the charm - everyone is so polite. Being restrained is part of the charm. And I love the sense of humour - it takes me back to Australia. The English are great at making fun of themselves. They're so self-effacing.
~ Danielle de Niese
I tend to be pretty conservative in the way I spend money.
~ Jeff Greene
I think there is a certain gravitas about me. My energy can be very big and yet contained.
~ Elizabeth Marvel
I'm no table flipper. I am more calm and collected in my fights.
~ Camille Grammer
I don't like talking about myself.
~ Jose Altuve
My books are so tame!
~ Sarah Dessen
You have; and I've restrained a good many of them," replied the insect. "But there are opportunities for so many excellent puns in our language that, to an educated person like myself, the temptation to express them is almost irresistible.
~ L. Frank Baum
Mueller and his team were disciplined, restrained, and orderly; they avoided publicity, and their presentations to the public—especially the Mueller Report, which closed their work—hewed scrupulously to provable facts. Trump was in every way their opposite, and his public statements were medleys of invective and falsehood.
~ Jeffrey Toobin
I always try to keep a pretty conservative demeanor on the court.
~ Julius Erving