Restrained Quotations

For me, style is essentially doing things well. If you want to be outrageous, be outrageous with style. If you want to be restrained, be restrained with style. One can't specifically define style. It's like the perfume to a flower. It's a quality you can't analyze.

When I was making 'Star Wars,' I wasn't restrained by any kind of science. I simply said, 'I'm going to create a world that's fun and interesting, makes sense, and seems to have a reality to it.'

There's something about Barack Obama that induces Americans to imagine what they cannot see. The Right envisions a vile socialist, while many on the Left picture an inspired liberal, politically restrained in his first term but now free to pursue his true beliefs.

One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness.

Sometimes the books most restrained about sex, even deeply scandalized by it, can whisper to us with the greatest hidden force. I am a huge admirer of the recently deceased, always underranked Evan S. Connell.

On the field, aggression can sometimes be a positive emotion. It boosts performance and can lift your game. But over the years, I have learnt that restrained aggression is a better animal. That way, you will conserve your energy and won't spend yourself quickly.

Al Qaeda is nothing more than a mutant supply chain. They're playing off the same platform as Wal-Mart and Dell. They're just not restrained by it. What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain. That's what we're up against in Iraq. We're up against a suicide supply chain.

Life is livable because we know that whatever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions towards us by an almost instinctive network of taboos

Poetry, men attain By subtler pain More flagrant in the brain - An honesty unfeigned, A heart unchained, A madness well restrained

Returns will likely be more restrained going forward.

Returns will likely be more restrained going forward. A lot of the good news has been factored in already.

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.

If we judge that inflationary pressures are restrained and the economy can achieve balanced growth, we can keep interest rates at very low levels.

For the wickedness of evil minded thieves, who secretly prowl over this earth, cannot be restrained except by punishment.

Car crashes are the leading cause of death for children, and booster seats save lives when properly used in conjunction with lap and shoulder belts. Unfortunately, many children are put at risk when they are improperly restrained by a seat belt intended for an adult or older child and the booster seat phase is skipped.

Because they were properly restrained they had minimal injury.

Here's a conference with the Foreign Secretary tackling some of the most controversial issues of the day and people aren't allowed to stay in their seats if they shout any protest, even restrained protest,

We are feeble, weak and impoverished because of our failure to pray. God is restrained in doing because we are restrained by reason of our non-praying. All failures in securing heaven are traceable to lack of prayer or misdirected petition.

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.

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.

That, which has been already restrained should not be further suppressed( it's not of much use), but one should try to control that which remains to be restrained!

We're not sure if she was restrained or not, but, nevertheless, she shouldn't have been in the front seat.

When I was younger, I looked a lot older than I was. They have these working laws in England where you have to be 16: if you're over 16, you don't have to be restrained by working hours and things like that. In America, it's actually 18.

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.

We think this is a very restrained budget.

We're still sitting on a respectable gain, even though it's not as good as the year before. Economic growth has held up OK; the conditions have been good enough to push stocks higher. Returns will likely be more restrained going forward, but positive.

At this point, it looks like the child was not restrained, so we're looking into whether the child was restrained or not. That's part of the investigation that's going on right now.

The trend of increased state revenues has resulted in a level of financial flexibility not seen in the sector over the past five years, and is helping many states restore structural budgetary balance and begin to rebuild reserves. In addition to the tax-reduction measures, this revenue growth has also led to new funding initiatives for education, transportation, infrastructure, and other areas that had been restrained from 2001-2004.

The soul-bride loves her Husband Lord; she is embellished with His Love. She worships Him day and night; she cannot be restrained from doing so.

These data are consistent with slightly better pricing power for both importers and exporters, which reflects the improvement in international economic activity. However, the gains are sufficiently restrained as to not cause any concerns about broader based measures of inflation.

There will be some price declines, but I think it will be a little more restrained than previous years.

With young people, it's how brassy and flashy can you be. But you get a bit older, it's about how restrained can you be. You have to feel it all, think it all, but you don't have to play it - it's just gotta be there, and if the story's good and the script's good, people will see it.

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.

In front end crashes, well-designed vehicles have front ends that crumple to absorb the energy and strong occupant compartments that resist intrusion. This allows restrained occupants to be decelerated without injury. In contrast, there is virtually no crush space on the sides of vehicles. So in serious side crashes some intrusion is inevitable but it should be minimized.

Consumer spending is going to be more restrained than it had been early last year. They will be buying things they need. They will not buy on impulse and will not buy frivolously. They will buy what they need and look for bargains.

The message is that a whole host of clerks over 15 years have had the same experience: Although their politics diverge, they didn't see the judge's political views influence his judging. He's really a restrained judge who doesn't insert his personal politics into his judging.

He strikes me as being very disciplined, ... I thought he clearly was one that really gives strong preference for what the law and precedent is. I mean, he talked about that a lot, that he's very methodical and restrained in that regard.

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,

And the forward-looking statements that companies are likely to give will probably be restrained given all the negatives that companies see: rising interest rates, rising mortgages, a lot of concern.

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.

The economy was struggling to gain traction at the end of last year. We think growth will be restrained in the Australian economy, keeping inflation pressures in check and keeping the Reserve Bank on hold for some time yet.

These findings clearly show that too many children age 12 and under are riding at risk in cars because they are not properly restrained in rear seats.

These individuals are being restrained and properly so. They are terrorists. They are uniquely dangerous,

For a rich and intensive prose, which with restrained compassion forms a challenging vision of man's vulnerability.

It's not good or bad news except in as much as it's going to create more opportunities for competitors such as ourselves to negotiate contracts with Dell and IBM, ... We're successfully creating a lot of interest in the marketplace, but unless our bigger competitor is restrained from doing some of the things it has been doing in the marketplace, it's going to be difficult for us to deliver to the customer.

Anyone who has set out to invent a purely imaginary story knows that the whole thing is fantasy, from beginning to end; there must be a sense of magic created about the most restrained of naturalism.

It's a conviction on the part of some that a lot of the stocks have reached such a downside level that they are discounting the worst of all scenarios. The enthusiasm is clearly restrained because the selling and anxiety continues so we've got a little short covering and selective buying.

It's funny, people don't think of 'Cloverfield' as being restrained because it's a handycam movie, but the only reason it's a handycam movie is because that was supposed to be the reality of the situation.

This is the most restrained increase we could recommend.

ICHOR, n. A fluid that serves the gods and goddesses in place of blood.Fair Venus, speared by Diomed, Restrained the raging chief and said:""Behold, rash mortal, whom you've bled -- Your soul's stained white with ichorshed!"" --Mary Doke

The freedom of the press is on of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by a despotic government