Curb Quotes - Page 7

• A two-year-old can be taught to curb his aggressions completely if the parents employ strong enough methods, but the achievement of such control at an early age may be bought at a price which few parents today would be willing to pay. The slow education for control demands much more parental time and patience at the beginning, but the child who learns control in this way will be the child who acquires healthy self-discipline later.

  Selma Fraiberg

  Strong, Children, Self

  Selma H. Fraiberg (2015). “The Magic Years: Understanding and Handling the Problems of Early Childhood”, p.155, Simon and Schuster

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• Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head.

  Edith Head

  Fashion, Heart, Desire

  Edith Head, Joe Hyams (1967). “HOW TO DRESS FOR SUCCESS”

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• O thou who passest through our valleys in Thy strength, curb thy fierce steeds, allay the heat That flames from their large nostrils! Thou, O Summer, Oft pitchest here thy golden tent, and oft Beneath our oaks hast slept, while we beheld With joy thy ruddy limbs and flourishing hair.

  William Blake

  Summer, Flames, Hair

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• The first ten amendments were proposed and adopted largely because of fear that Government might unduly interfere with prized individual liberties. The people wanted and demanded a Bill of Rights written into their Constitution. The amendments embodying the Bill of Rights were intended to curb all branches of the Federal Government in the fields touched by the amendments-Legislative, Executive, and Judicial.

  Hugo Black

  Rights, Government, People

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• ...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.

  L. E. J. Brouwer

  Criminals, Contradiction, Court

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• Failing to curb the impact of climate change could damage the global economy on the scale of the Great Depression or the world wars by spawning environmental devastation that could cost 5 to 20 percent of the world's annual gross domestic product.

  Nicholas Stern

  War, Impact, Environmental

  The report by Nicholas Stern, www.washingtonpost.com. October 31, 2006.

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• I am nothing if not rational about what is worthy of my anxiety and what is not, and I refuse to live my life as if a giant bus is just around the corner, waiting to crush me the minute I step off the curb.

  Deborah Copaken

  Crush, Waiting, Anxiety

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• I did about 10-12 national commercials and then got one line parts in things like 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' and the show 'The Unit.' Got a little part in the movie 'Redbelt' by David Mamet and kept slowly grinding up and then started getting bigger parts in independents and getting noticed by Liz Meriwether.

  Jake M. Johnson

  Liz, Lines, Littles

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A whopping 89 percent of buyers start their home search online. How your house looks online is the modern equivalent of 'curb appeal.' Rent a wide-angle lens and good lighting, get rid of your clutter and post at least eight great photos to win the beauty contest.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Home, Winning, Eight

  "Can't sell your home? Here are 9 tips that will help". www.today.com. December 15, 2010.

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• I'm riding you with a slack rein, my pet, but don't forget that I'm riding with curb and spurs just the same.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Pet, Spurs, Riding

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone With The Wind: American Literature”, p.828, 谷月社

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• You persist in this romantic vision of what it is to be a vampire, but despite my best efforts to curb it I have a taste for blood.

  Deborah Harkness

  Blood, Best Effort, Vision

  Deborah Harkness (2011). “A Discovery of Witches: A Novel”, p.240, Penguin

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• The nicest thing about coaching is that one day you feel like you can play handball against a curb, and on other days you feel like you can fly to the moon.

  Al McGuire

  Basketball, Moon, Play

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• What pushes the masses into the camp of socialism is, even more than the illusion that socialism will make them richer, the expectation that it will curb all those who are better than they themselves are.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Envy, Expectations, Socialism

  Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method”

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• Here the free spirit of mankind, at length,
  Throws its last fetters off; and who shall place
  A limit to the giant's unchained strength,
  Or curb his swiftness in the forward race?

  William C. Bryant

  Strength, Freedom, Race

  William Cullen Bryant, “The Ages”

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• What are the aspects of yourself that line up with the character? You magnify those, and the ones that don't match up you kind of kick to the curb.

  Jeff Bridges

  Character, Lines, Kind

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• 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.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Freedom, Struggle, Men

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Human Action”, p.350, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Hark, dumbass, the error is not to fall but to fall from no height. Don't fall off a curb, fall off a cliff.

  Dean Young

  Fall, Errors, Dumbasses

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• 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.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Ambition

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2015). “The Prince”, p.80, Xist Publishing

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• He [the golfer] must have the courage to keep trying in the face of ill luck or disappointment, and timidity to appreciate and appraise the dangers of each stroke, and to curb the desire to take chances beyond reasonable hope of success.

  Bobby Jones

  Disappointment, Golf, Appreciate

  Bobby Jones (1966). “Bobby Jones on Golf”, Main Street Books

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• I have that sort of Curb Your Enthusiasm, Larry David/George Costanza thing where people are like, "How did you feel writing such an unlikable character?" And I'm like, "It's me! I based him on myself!" There are certain moments where they do feel like unwittingly personal attacks.

  Steve Toltz

  Writing, Character, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• You I am sure will forgive me for sincerely remarking that you might curb your magnanimity and be more of an artist, and 'load every rift' of your subject with ore.

  Bob Dylan

  Artist, Forgive Me, Poetry

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• Here's the truth: even if countries like the United States curb our emissions, if growing countries like India - with soaring energy needs - don't also embrace cleaner fuels, then we don't stand a chance against climate change.

  Barack Obama

  Change, Country, Energy

  "As Obama departs India, a push for reform" by Kevin Liptak, www.cnn.com. January 27, 2015.

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• 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.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Bud, World, Spirit

  Elizabeth Bowen (2015). “The Death Of The Heart”, p.326, Random House

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• In Greek tragedy, they fall from great heights. In noir, they fall from the curb.

  Dennis Lehane

  Fall, Greek, Tragedy

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• Anybody who doesn't make you feel good, kick them to the curb. And the earlier you start in your life, the better.

  Amy Poehler

  Hilarious, Feel Good, Kicks

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