“What is pertinent is the calmness of that beauty, its sense of restraint.”
Kazuo Ishiguro
The Remains of the Day
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
Similar quotes
“Come, let’s be calm: no one incapable of restraint was ever a writer.”
Gustave Flaubert
Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour
“There was a beautiful feeling of calm in my groin, a sense of peace so remarkable it was almost ecstasy——anyone who' suffered bad pain and then recovered will know what I'm talking about.”
Stephen King
The Green Mile
“The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“It's beautiful when it all makes sense, so it is. Occasionally it makes sense, just for a moment.”
Anakana Schofield
Malarky
“But restraint is the only one sort of control, and absence of restraint isn't freedom. It's not control that's lacking when one feels 'free', but the objectionable control of force.”
B.F. Skinner
Walden Two