Restraining Quotes

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

We have been restraining the growth of the cost of education-that is, tuition, room and board-to be within approximately one and a half percentage points of the consumer price index.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas.

You balance the budget by restraining the growth of government and encouraging the growth of the private sector.

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.

Patience means restraining one's inclinations.