Quotes About Self-restraint

cada cual llega hasta donde puede y los demás le dejan y a ti se te permite vivir, ¿te parece poco?

I don't want to be that person, who just takes things.

But then one time, you track down an email address and you're near a computer with Internet access so you don't have that nice cushion and you type what you're feeling and press send before you have a chance to talk yourself out of it. And then you wait, and wait, and wait, and nothing comes back, so all those things you thought were so important to say, really, they weren't. They weren't worth saying at all.

Problem was, he couldn't masturbate his sexual desires away because he'd fry off his cock." Hector

Irene realized she was on the point of shouting. Worse, of being ungrammatical. She took a deep breath.

That's where both the Fae and the dragons fail......."They are defined either by narrative or reality. They don't go beyond that. The only person who can ever set bounds on you should be yourself.

The only person who can ever set bounds on you should be yourself.

But yet I hadde alwey a coltes tooth.Gat-toothed I was, and that bicam me weel.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

In a place where you're so freaked out that you hold yourself supertight, because any splash of emotion could break the dam and you would fall to pieces.

I shook myself out of these dreams. There were places where my thoughts must not go; and as I then reflected how few places were left where they could now go without incurring pain or guilt I decided that I needed some more whisky.

It is common knowledge that no man that women flock to boasts of his conquests. Those who do, lie.

Conociendo bien su destino, se cuidaba de las mujeres y a lo largo de su vida huyó de todo contacto sentimental, secando su corazón para el amor y limitándose a encuentros rápidos para burlar la soledad

I'm a one-drink woman, two at the most, three I'm under the table, four I'm under the host.

At the end of the day, you're responsible for yourself and your actions and that's all you can control. So rather than be frustrated with what you can't control, try to fix the things you can.

In film, it's very important to not allow yourself to get sentimental, which, being British, I try to avoid. People sometimes regard sentimentality as emotion. It is not. Sentimentality is unearned emotion.

It's not hard to get a girl if I wanted one. But it doesn't mean you want it, and even if you did, you're certainly not going to rub it in anybody's face.

One should not utter a word about his own inadequacies. In the Oxo it says: 'When a man lets out a single word, the long and short of him will be known.'

Though you should still let her do what she wants, don't let her take total control of you or you won't be making the most of your experience.

Never hold a weapon when angry even if that weapon was a dinner knife.

There isn't very much of the little boy left in Oscar; he didn't get to his position without being able to keep it under very tight control.

Moderation is actually the flip side of dieting, that is, imposed deprivation.

For me, you have to have some kind of modesty.

If modesty disappeared, so would exhibitionism.