Quotes About Inhibition

Nothing optional -- from homosexuality to adultery -- is ever made punishable unless those who do the prohibiting (and exact the fierce punishment) have a repressed desire to participate.

My little ankle-strap sandals curled with embarrassment for her.

Nothing optional—from homo-sexuality to adultery—is ever made punishable unless those who do the prohibiting (and exact the fierce punishments) have a repressed desire to participate. As Shakespeare put it in King Lear, the policeman who lashes the whore has a hot need to use her for the very offense for which he plies the lash.

Nothing optional - from homosexuality to adultery - is ever made punishable unless those who do the prohibiting (and exact the fierce punishments) have a repressed desire to participate.

I have not yet elected to bestow the grace of my saliva upon another human being. I have never… kissed anyone.

Around Mik, my powers desert me. I lose basic motor function, like my brain focuses all neural activity on my lips and shifts into kiss preparedness mode way too early, to the detriment of things like speech, and walking.

Jem drew back from her, looking dazed. "By the Angel," he said. "Perhaps we do need a chaperon.

Sometimes when she looks at him that way he finds himself almost blushing; a feeling so strange he almost doesn't recognize it. Jace Wayland doesn't blush.

His heart exploding paint and colours because he could not speak the words.

But I think you're letting your fear get in the way of what you really want because what you really want is what you're afraid of.

That his inability to express what he was feeling had formed such a tight and inescapable box around his being that he could barely breathe.

Raymond opened his mouth to say something. But he was still unclear on what the something would be. Part of him wanted to express what a big deal it was. Bigger than her words had tried to make it out to be. But it seemed unlikely that he would say a thing like that. He never had before.

She felt as she often did in class when she was nearly sure she had the right answer, but could not always make herself raise her hand.

he was also banned even from engaging in conversation with two or more persons. He could not legally go to a child's birthday party any more than he could attend political rallies

She formed the words, chewed them, felt them move in her mouth, but something in her refused to speak them.

threat or actuality of government surveillance may psychologically inhibit freedom of speech.

I myself cried when I got angry, then became unable to explain why I was angry in the first place. Later I would discover this was endemic among female human beings. Anger is supposed to be "unfeminine", so we suppress it-until it overflows.

I myself cried when I got angry, then became unable to explain why I was angry in the first place. Later I would discover this was endemic among female human beings. Anger is supposed to be "unfeminine," so we suppress it—until it overflows.

I felt as if I had no control over what I said, as if loathsome, ugly words were waiting inside me like snakes and toads looking for a chance to sneak out before I could stop them.

I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.

Wildness dances Inhibition stumbles

because I was so shy about taking my clothes off.

Perfectionism is the enemy of the idea muscle. Perfectionism is your brain trying to protect you from harm—from coming up with an idea that is embarrassing and stupid and could cause you to suffer pain.

I could not stop talking, though I feared at every instant that I would say too much. Perhaps I wanted to say too much.