Quotes About Restraint

I tend to get over-excited and very, very loud. I rein myself in when people flinch and dogs start howling.

The press these days should be rather careful about its role. We may have acquired some tendencies about over-involvement that we had better overcome.

Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.

I don't look for a fight or look for animosity or tension where it's not needed.

The surest test of discipline is its absence.

Mostly we're motivated to control ourselves in public. Mostly. At home the motivation is much less clear. At home there's a bit of a lab for bad behavior. You can test things out without terrible consequences. Or maybe the consequences are there, but they are deferred, buried, much harder to detect.

The last time you lost your cool like this, you ended up throwing Will Clarke off a rooftop.

He who is allowed to do as he likes will soon run his head into a brick wall out of sheer frustration.

Never miss a chance...to keep your mouth shut.

Decadence begins with the loss of restraint.

Pooley rose to investigate but the Professor restrained him with a firm and unyielding hand. Jim marvelled at the ancient's newly acquired strength. 'Do not look, Jim,' the Professor said dramatically, 'you would not care for what you saw.

Everyone misbehaves,' said Eddie. 'That's nature. Everyone gets away with as much as they can get away with. And the more they can get away with, the more they will.

I am not here [in the sanitarium] to write, but to be mad.

What is best in Freud is his sensing the paradox of being a highly social animal: being at our core libidinous, rapacious, and generally selfish, yet having to live civilly with other human beings—having to reach our animal goals via a tortuous path of cooperation, compromise, and restraint. From this insight flows Freud's most basic idea about the mind: it is a place of conflict between animal impulses and social reality.

Será que a veces hay que callar, no por miedo ni menos por pudor, sino por compasión?

No tendremos nunca contacto sexual. Para hacer más duradero nuestro amor, refrenaremos el deseo, y tampoco la besaré en la boca, sino en la mano.

I preferred not to respond. (Although several replies occurred to me.)

in a world where vast geographical spaces could suddenly shrink to the dimensions of a coffin

Never do what you can't undo until you've considered well what you can't do once you've done it.

Somewhere inside me, a madman raged in his cell, but I chose not to know of that.

You have a wild young heart. Right now, it is like a caged bird that batters itself against the bars. To struggle harder will only hurt you more. Wait, be patient. Your time will come to fly. And when it does, you must be strong, not bloodied and weary.

Not a perfect quote, but close." "Don't do what you can't undo, until you've considered what you can't do once you've done it.

A man has to set limits on his magic and on himself. Setting limits is part of being a man.

Sometimes I wonder about that grip. The hand was hard and rough, trapping mine within it. And yet it was warm, and not unkind, as it held mine. Only firm. It did not let me slip on the icy streets, but it did not let me escape my fate, either.