Quotes About Restraint

I try to keep my life low key, and I don't like going to parties unless they're thrown by a friend of mine, or they're to do with a project I'm in, or it's because I've been nominated for an award.

Others may try to feed our ego, but it is up to us to constrain it.

We should be careful of the insults we fling at others, lest they return and land at our feet, newly minted to apply to those who had first coined them.

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

Books, Manuals, Directives, Regulations. The geometries that circumscribe your working life draw norrower and norrower until nothing fits inside them anymore.

In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not devote ourselves to a life of pleasure and thence fall into immorality.

There is a limit to enjoyment, though the sources of wealth be boundlessAnd the choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

In my private life, I'm not around any drugs or alcohol.

Rule, after you have first learned to submit to rule.

I have never, honestly, thrown a chair in my life.

Mr. Tulip lived his life on that thin line most people occupy just before they haul off and hit someone repeatedly with a wrench.

I try to keep my private life kind of private.

There was no freedom in life, and certainly there was none in death.

Tis by no means the least of life's rules: To let things alone.

Life is the inside of a box, and we can't open it.

This is no time to make new enemies.

Married life is an existence with bars around it.

Spontaneity. Freedom. The opportunity for unstudied, impulsive roving through the backlands of his mind. Which are most detrimental? Inhibition. Self-censorship. Restraint.

WELCOME, ONCE AGAIN, to the beautiful Sinclair family. We believe in outdoor exercise. We believe that time heals. We believe, although we will not say so explicitly, in prescription drugs and the cocktail hour. We do not discuss our problems in restaurants. We do not believe in displays of distress. Our upper lips are stiff, and it is possible people are curious about us because we do not show them our hearts. It is possible that we enjoy the way people are curious about us.

Her veins were never open. He heart never leapt out to flop helplessly on the lawn. She never melted in puddles. She was normal. Always. At any cost.

Great self-respect is as often manifested in forbearance as in resentment.

Don't get your panties in such a twist... and give me back mine.

Indoors was his place and there he'd moulder, a respectable pillar of society who has never had the chance to misbehave.

You have less restraint rather than more as you grow older. Think it over and alter yourself, or we shan't have happy lives.