Choose language

Forgot your password?

Need a Spoofbox account? Create one for FREE!

No subscription or hidden extras

Login

#restrain

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #restrain




And let the Fed sell bonds to bring bank reserves back down to required reserve levels, so we have restraint on bank lending and bank issuances of liability.


Arthur Laffer


#bank #bonds #bring #down #fed

The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without exceptions, of course, but more than we ought to be comfortable with.


J. Irwin Miller


#characterizes #comfortable #course #cynical #decline

This submission is a restraint of liberty, but could be of no effect as to the good intended, unless it were general; nor general, unless it were natural.


Algernon Sidney


#effect #general #good #intended #liberty

To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.


Adam Smith


#benevolent #constitute #exercise #feel #human

We shall listen, not lecture; learn, not threaten. We will enhance our safety by earning the respect of others and showing respect for them. In short, our foreign policy will rest on the traditional American values of restraint and empathy, not on military might.


Theodore C. Sorensen


#american values #earning #empathy #enhance #foreign

"Sex" is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.


Marquis de Sade


#appetite #drinking #eating #false #false modesty

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

You were upset. I don't want you feeling forced into anything," he pressed on, horrified at his own words. Mental. Since when did he let chivalry get in the way of a blowjob? Talk about boycotting oneself, jeez.


Elle Aycart


#self-restraint #funny

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.


Albert Camus


#dies #freedom #imposes #itself #lives

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






back to top