Quotes About Restraint

I like restraint, if it doesn't go too far.

The Fed cannot save us from ourselves.

We actually do need a federal government, but we need a limited one.

Some people build fences to keep people out; some people build fences to keep people in.

My personal feelings are my personal feelings. I don't want to express them with anyone except for a very few people. It doesn't do any good. It really doesn't.

Not exactly hit them, but I've restrained a few people.

I feel there are very few people who can control their anger.

I don't fight anybody anytime or anywhere.

I don't fight people for fun.

In an age of reckonings, when so many bills have come due, Obama has made the case for an America that can no longer do it all. It must pick its fights.

I didn't get into too many fights when I was younger. I think I got into, like, one fight when I was in high school, and that was because someone was being rude towards my mom, and that was it.

That's the problem I have, I don't have a filter. It's something that I'm working on.

There needs to be fiscal common sense.

I've spent as much of my life fishing as decency allowed, and sometimes I don't let even that get in my way.

It is so easy to avoid getting in a fist fight. If you're at a point where you're squaring up against someone in public, then it's on you. There are so many ways to not get in a fist fight.

Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.

We were walking through Petco Park after a signing, and this girl plowed through security and grabbed onto my neck and started pulling. Her grip was so impressively strong that this huge security guard was struggling to get her off of me. I was like, 'Whoa. That's kind of crazy.'

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.

Metrics are not a device for restraining the mad, any more than 'open form' or free verse is a prairie where a man can do all kinds of manly things in a state of wholesome unrestrictedness.

There are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues.

Why, I'd horse-whip you if I had a horse.

Everybody's talking trash these days, so why not keep quiet?

Often we'd secretly like to do the very things we discipline ourselves against. Isn't that true? Well, here in the movies I can be as mean, as wicked as I want to - and all without hurting anybody.