Quotes About Self-restraint

how much it was. She didn't want to

I started my inevitable hysterical freak-out, but I tried to do it very quietly inside my head, because this had been so special, and I didn't want to ruin it. Like I usually did.

I am a strict monogamist: it is twenty years since I last went to bed with two women at once, and then I was in my cups and not myself.

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

Now get some clothes on before the women around here are driven into a frenzy." He gave me a mournful look. "I'm afraid that'll happen with or without clothes, my dear.

Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Anger is one of the sinners of the soul.

That government is best which governs least.

I can live a comfortable life. The first lesson of life is to burn our own smoke; that is, not to inflict on outsiders our personal sorrows and petty morbidness, not to keep thinking of ourselves as exceptional cases.

Do not blow your own trumpets nor, which is the same thing, ask other people to blow them. No trumpeter ever rose to be a general.

I'm not under obligation to provide information to everyone that wants it when they want it.

Let's say there was a fat guy heckling me. I would rip him to shreds, but I would never go for the obvious, never talk about how he's fat or anything.

Better come with me before your eyes make promises your stomach can't keep.

Cuando tienes la sabiduría que otra persona sabe que necesita, ofrécela libremente. Pero cuando la otra persona no sepa todavía que necesita tu sabiduría, guárdatela para ti. La comida sólo parece atractiva a un hombre hambriento.

If you don't want to do something,don't impose on others

Everything I think of now is too rude to actually say.

Early on, I'd occasionally wept in private after seeing an abused child. But quickly my tears had come to seem not just unprofessional but self-indulgent.

If you want to write believable fiction, you will have to cross over the line of your self-restraint and revel in the words and ideas that you would never express in your everyday life.

All the time, I was telling myself, just enjoy it for what it is, don't be weird, don't get all screwed up over something it isn't. The usual mantra when you're with someone who you're not really with and desperately want to be. Have you noticed how telling yourself all that shit never actually helps?

practice self-control.

The Founders believed that liberty depended on persons with the maturity to avoid both radical self-assertion and a timid reliance on the state.

For all my life, I had stored my love in a a place down inside me that had no outlet. I contained it there. Kept it to myself. Afraid to let it out. Thought if I did, it'd seep out and I'd be left with none. I didn't have much to start with.

Oh yeah? Go fuck yourself. He hung up. I called back ten minutes later, thinking it was an appropriate amount of time to have gone and fucked oneself.

I just don't want to live like I used to. And at some point, I'm going to put a gag order on myself in terms of talking about the past. I've got to slam the door and deal with the present and the future.