Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us that injury that provokes it.
Seneca
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A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
Albert Einstein
Returns will likely be more restrained going forward.
Rohan Walsh
Both manufacturers are profiting from strongly rejuvenated product lines. Demand in the overall car market is rather restrained.
Michael Raab
An improvement in his image in the eyes of the Chinese people will strengthen his hand and show that he is in control, that he is no longer restrained by Jiang Zemin.
Joseph Cheng
Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Because they were properly restrained they had minimal injury.
Kathy Harper
Returns will likely be more restrained going forward. A lot of the good news has been factored in already.
Rohan Walsh
France would prefer a multi polar world where U.S. power is slightly restrained.
Adam Segal
The bottom line is this -- for how long can the military remain restrained? That we are just around the corner from a major confrontation is not in doubt.
Iqbal Athas
We're not sure if she was restrained or not, but, nevertheless, she shouldn't have been in the front seat.
Anne E. Schwartz
Parents have to realize they are in a position of determining what is negotiable for their children and what is not. It should not be negotiable on whether you are restrained properly.
Michelle Fischer
Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
William Blake
We think this is a very restrained budget.
Joel Kaplan
It's clear that we've seen some pass-through of raw materials costs to producer prices, but retail inflation is still restrained.
Haseeb Ahmed
He didn't heed our warnings. We started to force entry and the rear door. At that time, he then came to the door. We asked him to restrain the dogs. The dog was not restrained and when the deputy went hands on to handcuff him, the dog attacked the deputy.
John Bolen
These wage costs show that there are real wage increases going on in the community, but they are restrained and consistent with low inflation, provided the economy maintains productivity growth.
Peter Costello
Norway wants both sides to be committed to the cease-fire. Apart from that, I think Norway wants the government to give an assurance that certain of its coalition allies, which have been publicly denouncing the Norwegians, will be restrained from doing so.
Jehan Perera
Man is not made better by being degraded; he is seldom restrained from crime by harsh measures, except the principle of fear predominates in his character; and then he is never made radically better for its influence.
Dorothea Dix
I have been very restrained in my comments about the House and the House leadership. But Speaker Craddick and I have a different point of view, ... I think the Legislature ought to reform our schools, not the courts.
David Dewhurst
One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness.
Miriam Beard
For a rich and intensive prose, which with restrained compassion forms a challenging vision of man's vulnerability.
Camilo Jose Cela
I don't think there was ever panic, frankly. There was recognition that we are in a new market. It's much more restrained, but it's still good.
Greg Paquin
A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.
Mao Zedong
With attractive women juries sometimes have to be restrained from handing them a medal for their crimes.
John Mcgeorge
We know they are less likely to be restrained and more likely to be improperly and unsafely seated in the front.
Christene Jennings
This represents a modest increase. Again, we have our long-term projects that we have been working on since 2003 but, realizing that fuel and utility costs have increased, the finance committee has been very restrained with whatever it could.
Superintendent Michael Wasta
I sometimes ponder on variation form and it seems to me it ought to be more restrained, purer.
Johannes Brahms
The basic element here is the continued good level of compliance by OPEC. Since March, the numbers have come out as impressive in terms of restrained output.
Gene Nowak
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