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  • We [people] are made separate by the things we do or do not do. Responsibilities of all types curb us. Desire betrays us. No wound is ever truly petty. And there are so many ways to be locked apart from the rest of the world.

    Source: therumpus.net
  • To make a man richer, give him more money of curb his desires.

    Men   Giving   Desire  
  • Gay people don't have a personality problem. They have a problem with small-minded motherfuckers who can't conquer a 1-inch high curb.

  • Education has for its object the formation of character. To curb restive propensities, to awaken dormant sentiments, to strengthen the perceptions, and cultivate the tastes, to encourage this feeling and repress that, so as finally to develop the child into a man of well proportioned and harmonious nature, this is alike the aim of parent and teacher.

    Herbert Spencer (1873). “Social Statics; Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, & the First of Them Developed”, p.201
  • To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.

  • Late April and you are three; today We dug your garden in the yard. To curb the damage of your play, Strange dogs at night and the moles tunneling, Four slender sticks of lath stand guard Uplifting their thin string. So you were the first to tramp it down. And after the earth was sifted close You brought your watering can to drown All earth and us. But these mixed seeds are pressed With light loam in their steadfast rows. Child, we've done our best.

    W. D. Snodgrass, “Heart's Needle”
  • One thing is certain: the arts keep you alive. They stimulate, encourage, challenge, and, most of all, guarantee a future free from boredom. They allow growth and even demand it in that time of life we call maturity but too often enter it with a childish faith that what we learned in youth is sustenance enough for the years when most men are mentally famished but won't admit it—or when they are apt to curb their hunger with the sops of complacency, security, and the assurance of death.

    Art   Maturity   Men  
  • ...an incorrect theory, even if it cannot be inhibited by any contradiction that would refute it, is none the less incorrect, just as a criminal policy is none the less criminal even if it cannot be inhibited by any court that would curb it.

  • For stories teach us, that liberty sought out of season, in a corrupt and degenerate age, brought Rome itself to a farther slavery: for liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands: neither is it completely given, but by them who have the happy skill to know what is grievance and unjust to a people, and how to remove it wisely; what good laws are wanting, and how to frame them substantially, that good men may enjoy the freedom which they merit, and the bad the curb which they need.

    Freedom   Men   Skills  
    John Milton (1851). “The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Biographical Introduction”, p.245
  • I really love 'Dexter.' I'd like to be on 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' or 'Breaking Bad'.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • Winter's palette is clear and spare, restrictive enough to curb the excesses of even the most daring gardeners.

    Winter   Excess   Enough  
  • After decades of faithful study, ecologists have begun to fathom hidden likenesses among many interwoven systems. ...a canon of nature's laws, strategies, and principles... Nature runs on sunlight. Nature uses only the energy it needs. Nature fits form to function. Nature recycles everything. Nature rewards cooperation. Nature banks on diversity. Nature demands local expertise. Nature curbs excesses from within. Nature taps the power of limits.

    Running   Nature   Law  
  • Bruises mapped my body from bumping into tables and tripping over curbs while walking with a book in my hand, my eyes focused on the pages instead of the live space around me.

    Book   Eye   Hands  
    Rachel Cohn (2011). “You Know Where to Find Me”, p.11, Simon and Schuster
  • All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.

  • Curb Your Enthusiasm set me up so perfectly. That was one of my favorite shows before I got on it. That started a whole different level of a story for me. I didn't know how to process it until after I got on the show and realized what the purpose of it was.

  • I received rejection letters for ten years (one on a napkin, written in crayon.) I had all my rejection notices stored in a box. When the box was finally full I took it to the curb and set it on fire. The next day I went out and got a temp job.

    Jobs   Fire   Years  
    Interview with Brian Sherwin, www.bookbrowse.com. October 31, 2010.
  • What people fear most about tragedy is its randomness - a taxi cab jumps the curb and hits a pedestrian, a gun misfires and kills a bystander. Better to have some rational cause and effect between incident and injury. And if cause and effect aren't possible, better that there at least be some reward for all the suffering.

  • And when neither their property nor honour is touched, the majority of men live content, and he has only to contend with the ambition of a few, whom he can curb with ease in many ways.

    Art   War   Ambition  
    Niccolo Machiavelli (2015). “The Prince”, p.80, Xist Publishing
  • Now we are flying off into outer space, there is no clear curb on what can be done in the name of the economy.

    Names   Space   Flying  
  • We must curb ourfury, and allow sadness to diminish, and speak our stories with coolness and deliberation.

    Sadness   Stories   Speak  
  • I was never in an awkward position where I had to curb my manhood.

    Awkward   Curb   Position  
    "Beanie Sigel spits anti-Jay-Z rhymes in online video" by Shaheem Reid, www.mtv.com. November 18, 2009.
  • Just handle what is in front of you now and the future will take care of itself. Otherwise, you'll spend most of your life wondering which foot you'll use to step off the curb when you're still only halfway to the corner.

    Future   Feet   Use  
    Dan Millman (2004). “Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior”, p.70, H J Kramer
  • I had to take the driver's test twice. And they don't make you parallel park anymore, but you can't hit the curb when you're backing up. And I hit the curb.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Childish fantasy, like the sheath over the bud, not only protects but curbs the terrible budding spirit, protects not only innocence from the world, but the world from the power of innocence.

    Bud   World   Spirit  
    Elizabeth Bowen (2015). “The Death Of The Heart”, p.326, Random House
  • I do try and curb my mouth, but I find it really hard. I wonder how many jobs I've talked myself out of!

    Jobs   Trying   Mouths  
    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Why a tender curb upon the youthful burning boy? Why a little curtain of flesh on the bed of our desire?

    Boys   Desire   Bed  
    William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.120, Pearson Education
  • It is necessary to curb the power of government. This is the task of all constitutions, bills of rights and laws. This is the meaning of all struggles which men have fought for liberty.

    Freedom   Struggle   Men  
    Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Human Action”, p.350, Lulu Press, Inc
  • Veep is my priority. Veep is my home, but I have nothing but obviously, good thoughts and really want Curb to be Curb. So anything I can do, as long as Veep is not getting hurt, I guess is the answer.

    Hurt   Home   Long  
    Source: deadline.com
  • On turf and curb and bower-roof The snow-storm spreads its ivory woof; It paves with pearl the garden-walk; And lovingly around the tatter'd stalk And snivering stem its magic weaves A mantle fair as lily-leaves.

    Garden   Ivory   Snow  
  • Skateboarding is not a hobby. And it is not a sport. Skateboarding is a way of learning how to redefine the world around you. For most people, when they saw a swimming pool, they thought, ‘Let's take a swim.' But I thought, ‘Let's ride it.' When they saw the curb or a street, they would think about driving on it. I would think about the texture. I slowly developed the ability to look at the world through totally different means.

    Sports   Mean   Swimming  
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