Retraint Quotes & Sayings

A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is 'merely relative,' is asking you not to believe him. So don't. — Roger Scruton

The educated can listen impassively to almost anything. — Mason Cooley

Our descent, then, is the origin of our evil passions!! The devil under form of Baboon is our grandfather. — Charles Darwin

Yes, it's a well-known fact about you: you're like death, you take everything. — Milan Kundera

The scariest stunt I've ever done was on 'Captain America.' We were doing some underwater sequence. I was in a submarine, and Chris Evans had to break the glass, and the water had to fill up quickly in the submarine. — Richard C. Armitage

When all are admitted, how can there be a Holy of Holies? — Elizabeth Gaskell

If you lose God's paradise in Heaven, then you never existed. — Felix Wantang

Your expressions, defines you. — Lailah Gifty Akita

People are who they are and, try as you might, you cannot make them be what you want them to be. — Leila Sales

For, has not the world come to an awfully sophisticated pass, when, after a certain degree of acquaintance with it, we cannot even put ourselves to death in whole-hearted simplicity? — Nathaniel Hawthorne

You hang around actors, or dancers, the minute you sneeze, everybody has a remedy, and we're all on a million different kinds of diets, and different kinds of things that we do for exercise. — Anna Deavere Smith

I am defined by my will to survive, not by intelligence or cunning or money or good looks. The Creator didn't see her way clear to give me those things, instead she gave me a strong will. — Jaune Quick-to-See Smith

The Bible can touch our hearts, order our minds, refresh our souls. — Ronald Reagan

I think it's true that that's something that poetry can go to school on fiction. I think poetry can go to fiction to learn. — Edward Hirsch

In our time the only restraint left is self-retraint. — Jeffrey R. Holland