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Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.
Henry Kissinger
Art
Diplomacy
Power
Restraining
Yoga is a method for restraining the natural turbulence of thoughts, which otherwise impartially prevent all men, of all lands, from glimpsing their true nature of Spirit. Yoga cannot know a barrier of East and West any more than does the healing and equitable light of the sun.
Paramahansa Yogananda
Nature
Thoughts
Healing
Natural
Light
Men
Otherwise
Sun
East
Spirit
Restraining
More
Prevent
True
Know
True Nature
Does
Equitable
Method
West
Than
Yoga
Any
Cannot
Which
Turbulence
Lands
Barrier
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.
Euripides
People
Wealth
Law
Will
Free
Other
Restraining
No-One
Truly
According
Them
Acting
Fortune
Slave
Civilisation is partly about restraining the male of the species from engaging in the violence of the hunter-gatherer period. But it doesn't take an awful lot to unleash it.
Niall Ferguson
Unleash
About
Restraining
Civilisation
Take
Period
Partly
Male
Lot
Engaging
Species
Awful
Awful Lot
Violence
You balance the budget by restraining the growth of government and encouraging the growth of the private sector.
Mitt Romney
Government
You
Balance
Sector
Restraining
Budget
Private
Encouraging
Private Sector
Growth
No society can exist without some means for restraining individual rapacity.
William Barr
Society
Some
Restraining
Individual
Without
Exist
Means
Patience means restraining one's inclinations.
Tokugawa Ieyasu
Patience
Restraining
Means
Thankfully, God's restraining grace keeps even the worst of us from being utterly depraved. The worst people who have ever lived could've been worse.
Tullian Tchividjian
God
People
Grace
Worse
Worst
Restraining
Been
Thankfully
Being
Depraved
Us
Who
Even
Lived
Ever
Keeps
Utterly
We must institute reasonable, common-sense limits, such as barring those with a history of mental instability, those with a history of violent crime or adjudged dangerous and subject to restraining orders, and those whose names have been placed on a terrorist watch list from owning weapons.
Dick Durbin
History
Dangerous
Crime
Those
Must
Weapons
Restraining
Mental
Instability
Institute
Names
Terrorist
Limits
Been
Subject
List
Owning
Orders
Placed
Reasonable
Whose
Watch
Violent
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.
Ryan Gosling
Myself
Character
Me
Try
Think
Characters
Would
Restraining
Someone
He
Put
Feel
Like
Get
Did
Different
Order
Movie
Against
Really
Who
Play
Actually
It's a well-known fact that the TV camera adds 10 pounds. I don't want to say that I've been calling my Jenny Craig consultant a lot, but I'm pretty sure I'm the first spokesperson whom they've considered filing a restraining order against.
Ross Mathews
First
Considered
Adds
Say
TV
Pretty
Restraining
Fact
Consultant
Pounds
Spokesperson
Calling
Sure
Camera
Been
Lot
Craig
Order
Want
Against
Filing
Whom
We can't all be like Ryan Seacrest... the perfect platform manifestation of a human. I don't know if we all have those gifts for restraining our emotions... or whatever it is he does.
Ze Frank
Emotions
Whatever
Our
Those
Gifts
Restraining
Perfect
He
Like
Know
Does
Human
Manifestation
Platform
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.
Charles Vest
Half
Approximately
Cost
Restraining
Percentage
Price
Consumer
Points
Within
Been
Tuition
Room
Growth
Whether it's viewers of the show or readers of my columns and books, I'm consistently impressed with their wit, humor and insight. That goes for about 95 percent of the audience. The other five percent are why the 'Delete' option and restraining orders were invented.
Richard Roeper
Humor
Other
Books
Consistently
Insight
About
Restraining
Percent
Delete
Invented
Columns
Wit
Readers
Audience
Were
Impressed
Five
Option
Goes
Orders
Whether
Viewers
Show
Why
Metrics are not a device for restraining the mad, any more than 'open form' or free verse is a prairie where a man can do all kinds of manly things in a state of wholesome unrestrictedness.
James Fenton
Man
Free
Manly
State
Mad
Kinds
Restraining
More
Open
Free Verse
Device
Prairie
Verse
Than
Any
Where
Form
Wholesome
Things