Quotes About Restraint

There are a lot of things that we crave, there are a lot of things that would make us perhaps more fulfilled in a sensory way that we just say no to.

I always felt restrained by lower-budget films. I enjoyed making them, and I felt fulfilled, but I really did always want to make bigger movies.

So I don't cry anymore, I just beat people up. It's a lot more fun.

We also need a fund that can say 'no'.

Sylvia was a lady and would not allow herself really to care for the person in the world for whom it would be least decent of her to care...But

En ce temps que j'ai dit devant, Sur le Noël, morte saison, Que les loups se vivent de vent Et qu'on se tient en sa maison, Pour le frimas, près du tison, Me vint un vouloir de briser La très amoureuse prison Qui faisoit mon cÅ"ur débriser.

There's nothing so strong as rage, except what makes you hold it in—that's stronger. It's a good thing not to answer your enemies. I scarcely ever do.

M? tôi v?n b?o có hai Ä'i?u t?i t? có th? ??n vá»›i má»™t ??a tr?, Ä'ó là không bao gi? ???c làm theo Ä'i?u mình mu?n, ho?c là luôn luôn ???c làm v?y.

There's nothing so strong as rage, except what makes you hold it in- that's stronger.

His older brother once told him that if you found you were undressing the girl and yourself, take a break and ask yourself whether you're pushing too hard.

Anne is remarkably restrained in calibrating the amount of fear she will admit into the diary. The air raids, the break-ins, and the brutality reported by the helpers and glimpsed from the window appear at regular intervals, so that the reader can never fully relax.

She had to strive to make every thought obedient to the love of Christ whatever violent feelings churned within her. She had to take her every thought captive to the obedience of Christ and leave no room for anger and jealousy and thoughts of revenge.

How can intemperate minds be free when they're slaves to their own passions?

One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim.

Growth is limited by the necessity which is present in the least amount. And naturally, the least favorable condition controls the growth rate

It occurred to her that mercy was the ability to stop, if only for a moment. There was no mercy where there could be no stopping.

If I always behave with propriety, no matter what it costs me to suppress my own desires, then that is the measure of me. Such is the essence of self-control.

Most discipline is hidden discipline, designed not to liberate but to limit. Do not ask Why? Be cautious with How? Why? leads inexorably to paradox. How? traps you in a universe of cause and effect. Both deny the infinite.

Kad se pretjerano koristi, ?ak se i odanost na kraju istroši.

Governments can be useful to the governed only so long as inherent tendencies toward tyranny are restrained.

Governments can be useful to the governed only so long as inherent tendencies toward tyranny are restrained...be exceedingly careful about the powers you delegate to any government.

You have no idea how much consternation this restraint created in the Royal Creche. Subtlety and self-control were, after all, the most deadly threats to us all.

The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen"—which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing. —FROM "THE WISDOM OF MUAD'DIB" BY THE PRINCESS IRULAN

Fremenler eskilerin 'spannungsbogen' dediÄŸi bir nitelikte kusursuzlaÅŸm??t?... yani arzulad?klar? bir ÅŸeyi elde etmeye çal??madan önce sabredebiliyorlard?.