Quotes About Restraint

I always felt caged, closed in, like I was punching at things that weren't there. I always had too much energy for the room I was in.

As a comedian who's used to, like, punching the jokes, it's hard to teach yourself that that's not the strong choice in the sense that you have to really have to dial it back.

It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.

The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without exceptions, of course, but more than we ought to be comfortable with.

From time to time I might push a little bit too hard and I have got to be a bit more careful.

The Good Humor man can only be pushed so far.

I'm a big believer in pushing things too far and forcing people to pull you back.

The last thing I'm trying to do is trying to look to go out into a fight. Ask anybody who knows me, I'm not the first guy to go around and just start pushing people.

If you keep on pushing someone, eventually you push them too far.

Mahesh is a big star, but he doesn't like to flash his money.

I don't like flashy things.

I must not say what I truly think, or you will tell me I flatter you-but I can only speak what I feel-and very often I cannot even do that when the feeling is very deep.

If I have to be focused and watch what I say, then I have to be comfortable.

I've got to be aware of what's going on. I can't drink too much or make a fool of myself.

Fans have to try to control their emotions, as we do as footballers.

America has been a force for much good in the world. But we should learn from the mistakes of an over-expansionist foreign policy and return to the restraint that George Washington and John Quincy Adams advocated.

I am too much of a control freak to be a drinker.

I'm a little bit of a control freak.

For me, I'm a bit of a control freak.

I'm not saying I'm a control freak, though I'll admit that I am at times.

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.

I don't think there will be another Ghostbusters. I think we're all too old to do it. I think we've done it a couple times and there is not that much to get out of it, to do that would be fresh in it.

I'm not a frugal person, but I find it difficult to be extravagant materially.

As frustrating as it is to not have a record come out, I have to make sure that it's worth putting out. I have to be trying to say something, for one. I have to not oversell what I'm trying to say. I can't 'Bono' it.