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Quotes About Reserve

There are guys on Tour who hit the ball further than me. I always thought it was important to have power, but more important to have power in reserve.
~ Tiger Woods
There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.
~ William S. Burroughs
Be somewhat scanter of your maiden presence.
~ William Shakespeare
in reserve for the most important thing: the present.
~ Y?ko Ogawa
I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness.
~ Georg Brandes
And so we were friends of a sort once more. We began to talk, stiltedly at first, but then with more ease. We had, after all, many interests in common. And if there was still a deep reserve, if fingers about to brush moved hastily apart, and if our eyes did not linger but met and winced away from hurt, outwardly, at least, there was tranquillity. I slept the better for it.
~ Elizabeth Newark
We ought to be making North some now," he said with the utmost restraint.
~ Alfred Lansing
he kept himself and his forces well in hand the whole evening, compelling an accumulative reserve of control by that nameless inward process of gradually putting all the emotions away and turning the key upon them—a process difficult to describe, but wonderfully effective, as all men who have lived through severe trials of the inner man well understand.
~ Algernon Blackwood
If we want our nuclear stockpile to truly serve the interests of our country in a strategic, balanced manner, we have to change course. That means pursuing creative options such as reducing the weapons held in reserve.
~ Dianne Feinstein
The reserve currency role seems to add prestige to an area and some people in Europe have talked about the desirability of the euro becoming an international reserve currency.
~ Robert C. Solomon
I never talk about 'Harry Potter' because I think that would rob children of something that's private to them. I think too many things get explained, so I hate talking about it.
~ Alan Rickman
Don't talk much and save your dignity.
~ Ashraf Ali Jamshedpur
Common sense," he continues, "takes good care not to assail violently those beliefs which tradition has transmuted into principles. "However, if direct criticism of those beliefs causes common sense to be regarded unfavorably, it will be welcomed with the greatest reserve and will maintain a certain prudence relative to this criticism, which will be equivalent to a proffered reproach.
~ Yoritomo-Tashi
When you hold some part of yourself in reserve you deny it exposure to life; you repress its energy and keep it from understanding what it needs to know.
~ Deepak Chopra
You accused me of murder. Do you make a habit of bringing schoolgirls into an interview room with murder suspects?' He waved his hand. 'Oh, I was only joking about that. I don't really think you murdered someone. Unless you did, in which case I reserve the right to say I knew it all along.
~ Derek Landy
Your mind is the most incredible gift! A powerful mind is the reserve for all that is physical in stamina.
~ James C. Emlund
We need a new law that owners of SUVs are automatically in the military reserve. Then they can go get their own goddamn oil.
~ Jello Biafra
Sé por instinto que su reserva procede de una aversión a las exhibiciones extravagantes de los sentimientos..., a las manifestaciones de mutua amabilidad. Amará y odiará con igual secreto y considerará una impertinencia ser, a su vez, amado u odiado.
~ Emili Bronte
I know, by instinct, his reserve springs from an aversion to showy displays of feeling—to manifestations of mutual kindliness.
~ Emily Bronte
Me parecía, instintivamente, que su reserva debía proceder de que era enemigo de dejar traslucir sus emociones. Debía de odiar y amar disimulándolo, y seguramente hubiera considerado como un impertinente a quien le amase o le odiase, a su vez.
~ Emily Bronte
I know, by instinct, his reserve springs from an aversion to showy displays of feeling—to manifestations of mutual kindliness. He'll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to be loved or hated again.
~ Emily Bronte
His reserve springs from an aversion to showy displays of feeling—to manifestations of mutual kindliness.  He'll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to be loved or hated again.
~ Emily Bronte
Je sais, par instinct, que sa réserve provient d'une aversion pour les étalages de sentiment...Pour les manifestations d'amabilité réciproque. Il aimera, comme il haïra, sans en rien laisser paraître, il regardera comme une sorte d'impertinence l'amour ou la haine qu'il recevra en retour.
~ Emily Bronte
keep your language free of obscenities. Do not dip into the gutter in search of cheap laughs.
~ Epictetus