Quotes About Restraint

But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires.

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If you cage a wild thing, you can be sure it will die, but if you let it run free, nine times out of ten it will run back home.

Her daughter had given her a puff of a marijuana cigarette once, but after all the hot pads on the counter started walking toward her, she got scared and never tried it again. So dope was out.

Someone who has never known constraint can have no concept of freedom.

Pertencer - eis a banalidade. Credo, ideal, mulher ou profissão - tudo isso é a cela e as algemas. Ser é estar livre.

I decided to abstain from everything, to go forward in nothing, to reduce action to a minimum, to make it hard for people and events to find me, to perfect the art of abstinence, and to take abdication to unprecedented heights.

One who has never lived under constraints doesn't know what freedom is.

Credo, ideal, mulher ou profissão - tudo isso é a cela e as algemas.

To belong to something — that's banal. Creed, ideal, wife or profession: nothing but prison cells and shackles.

Creeds, ideals, a woman, a profession – all are prisons and shackles.

To belong to something – that's banal. Creeds, ideals, a woman, or profession – nothing but prisons and shackles. To be is to be free. Even ambition is a burden if it is based only on futile pride and passion. We wouldn't be so proud of it if we realized it's just a string by which we're pulled.

Love, glory, and wealth are prisons.

No solo quien nos odia o nos envidia nos limita y oprime; quien nos ama no menos nos limita.

Let's not even touch life with the tips of our fingers. Let's not even love in our minds. May we never know the feel of a woman's kiss, not even in our dreams.

He's a good boy, he takes instruction well; I just can't think of enough things to tell him not to do.

The Church's stand on birth control is the most absolutely spiritual of all her stands and with all of us being materialists at heart, there is little wonder that it causes unease. I wish various fathers would quit trying to defend it by saying that the world can support 40 billion. I will rejoice the day when they say: This is right whether we all rot on top of each other or not, dear children, as we certainly may. Either practice restraint or be prepared for crowding...

His plate was full but his fists sat motionless like two dark quartz stones on either side of it.

The grandmother decided that she would not mention that the house was in Tennessee.

If you're famous, you're not free.

It doesn't matter what famous person I've come across in the street, I don't think I've ever shouted.

I've never flirted with a fan.

We don't want to show our hand to the fan base or give up too much too early.

There's only so far you can go before you say enough is enough.