Quotes About Restraint

Daddy always said Grandpa was so tight that when he blinked the skin on his pecker rolled back.

If you can not be positive then at least be quiet

Whatever you want too much you can't have, so when you really want something, try to want it a little less.

Whatever you want too much you can't have, so when you really want something, try to want it a little less.

Moderation is like a foreign language. You have to learn that shit when you're young.

Geez, man, don't give yourself whiplash. You are hurting, if the mention of Victorian underwear will get you worked up. I know a girl...." - From "Controlled Response

Being violent is easy, too easy." He brushed it off. "Holding back, being gentle, restraining your strength when it's not needed, that takes—" "Character," she said. "Loads of it.

I have my limits, Lauren," he said, low. She knew it, could feel the caged beast hurling against his bars, knew how close he was.

My dear," Marcus said, "you are supposed to soothe the beast until you get the cage on him, not tease him into a rage while he's still unfettered.

Tålamod är en av de viktigaste dygderna.

We live in a gap between what we know we should do and what we feel we can do.

Oh, diese Eifersucht ist noch viel unbegreiflicher als unsre Liebe, denn wir können doch nicht alle Weiber und Mädchen zu unserm Eigentum machen; aber das lüsterne Auge läßt sich keine Schranken setzen, unsre Phantasie ist wie das Faß der Danaiden, unser Sehnen umfängt und umarmt jeglichen Busen.«

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

In limitations he first shows himself the master,And the law can only bring us freedom.

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.

Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!

What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!

Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.

They should be ashamed of themselves, all these sober people!

I mean now to try and see her as soon as I can: or perhaps, on second thoughts, I had better not; it is better I should behold her through the eyes of her lover. To my sight, perhaps, she would not appear as she now stands before me; and why should I destroy so sweet a picture?

Whatever liberates our spirit without giving us mastery over ourselves is destructive.

One hundred times have I been on the point of embracing her. Heavens! What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it. And laying hold is the most natural of human instincts. So not children touch everything they see? And I!

When you live your whole life in a prison freedom can be so dull

Everything in life depends on how that life accepts its limits.