"Restraint is the better part of beauty."

-- Frances Gray Patton

#Restraint Quotes

“Taoism extols the virtue of flexibility. What survives on earth is what effortlessly adapts to the changing environment and changing circumstances.”
“If I had been told to get out of the street as a teenager, there would have been a distinct possibility that I might have smarted off. But, I wouldnâ€™t have expected to be shot.”
“So he held her and he prayed. Shafts of moonlight on his face. But the baby in her womb, He was the maker of the moon. He was the author of the fate that could make the mountains move.”
“I have a stab wound on my left hip and one on my thigh and a slash mark across my right calf. I have a bottle stab wound on my left calf.”

Source : "Jonah Lomu: Wing commander has seen the light" by Anna Kessel, www.theguardian.com. March 20, 2010.
“Dying people don't need medicine, the ones who remain do.”
“We are much harder on people who betray us in small ways than on people who betray others in great ones.”
“My father loved all different types of music. He wasn't a snob. He wasn't a purist.”
“As the contest proceeded, public interest increased and the entire country watched to see which company would win the big government subsidies through the mountains.”

Source : John Moody (1921). “The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States”

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