Quotes About Restraint

Sa help us all, but I plan to give her free rein and let her be as unpleasant and bitchy as only she knows how.

For men love what they cannot have, and hate what they cannot control.

When I ask my elders about the ways our people lived in order to keep the world whole and healthy, I hear the mandate to take only what you need. But we human people, descendants of Nanabozho, struggle, as he did, with self-restraint. The dictum to take only what you need leaves a lot of room for interpretation when our needs get so tangled with our wants.

Had all the things in the market merely been a very low price, I probably would have scooped up as much as I could. But when everything became a gift, I felt self-restraint. I didn't want to take too much.

It's significantly more satisfying to kick a wall than it is to kick thin air. For the rebellious teen- or the teen who wants to feel like a rebel- a clearly defined law gives you something to define yourself against.

For the first time in my life, I realized that a man doesn't need to yell to be heard. A man doesn't have to throw a punch to make a point. And a man who is comfortable in his own skin doesn't need to constantly prove his worth to the world.

We have to live like people in a web of knives, we mustn't reach out our hands or we get them gashed.

To pry would involve being told an answer I didn't want to hear. So I didn't pry.

Not to mention there are at least seven locks between you and the outside world. First lock is on your cell door. Get by

Hamilton also knew that the government needed a police force to ensure that the two elected branches, the legislature and the executive, did not overstep their bounds in an effort to hang onto power.

It's always best to avoid strangling the person you're on a date with. No matter how crazy he makes you.

Maybe she should start smoking.

Women live quietly, I said. However angry or broken a woman might get, she does not think about beating someone, does she?

Her restraint and control taught me a lesson I have not strayed from to this day. You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman.

To see Snow Flower's mother eat that meat was something I'll never forget. She had been raised to be a fine lady and, as hungry as she was, she did not tear into the food as someone in my family might. She used her chopsticks to pull apart slivers of the pork and lift them delicately to her lips. Her restraint and control taught me a lesson I have not strayed from to this day. You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less that a cultivated woman.

But anger can be dangerous and have unintended consequences.

When fortune comes, do not enjoy all of it; when advantage comes, do not take all of it

This evening he almost would have preferred to keep his feelings hidden. But it was, of course, against the rules.

Well, one couldn't help one's thoughts. One could help opening one's mouth and saying something really stupid, though.

Not all prisons are made of iron bars, some are made of feather beds.

Guards, Miles now realized, had to stay in prison all day long too. Indeed, as a guard, one of his jobs was now to keep himself in.

He had to restrain himself from skipping down the steps of the Palais de London in the ambassador's wake. Genius. He was a frigging genius.

The woman is so full of silences, they spill over.

Leo could not, afterwards, recall running forward or swinging Van Atta around to face him, but only Van Atta's surprised, open-mouthed expression. "Bruce," he sang through a red haze, "you smarmy creep—lay off." The uppercut to Van Atta's jaw that punctuated this command was surprisingly effective, considering it was the first time Leo had struck a man in anger in his life. Van Atta sprawled backwards on the concrete. Leo