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Quotes About Restraint

All I can say is, I don't talk about the personal stuff. It's the one thing you can keep to yourself. At least you try to.
~ Rachel Bilson
You know, the one thing I've learnt or value from back in the day is the restraint and discipline you get when you're limited by technology and equipment.
~ Bonobo
If you want to gamble, so be it, but when it gets to the stage where gambling is the only thing you are thinking of and it is affecting your life, that's when you need to put a hold on it.
~ Adebayo Akinfenwa
Personally, I don't like to talk too much to the actors about the camera choices because I feel like the way I want them to perform is as if it feels very rooted in the real world and that I'm essentially stepping back and just watching and hoping they feel safe with me watching.
~ Andrew Haigh
The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.
~ Voltaire
Moderation is the secret of survival.
~ Manly Hall
Brie, I'm sorry. I can't," he whispered. "Can't?" "I can't kiss you like this. You tempt me. And you're not ready to be with a tempted man. I have to take you home." She
~ Robyn Carr
God, you men just can't keep it in your pants, can you?" she said in disgust. "Well, you can damn sure believe it's behind locked doors now!
~ Robyn Carr
I'm sorry, Cameron. Although really, it baffles me that you can even think of sex when you look at me." "I think about touching every single curve of your body. I think about kissing and tasting every part of you. I think about things I'm not allowed to do until after you deliver and mend. I can't stop thinking about all of that." "But you're allowed to hold me, right?" "I'm allowed to never let you go," he said. *
~ Robyn Carr
Goddamn it," he muttered. She smiled at him. "Nice language for someone on his way to church." *
~ Robyn Carr
The way i figured it, keeping quiet was safe. Words could betray you if you chose the wrong ones, or mean less if you used too many.
~ Robyn Schneider
The royal bodyguard, ordered by Philip to hang back for the occasion, followed at a discreet distance.
~ Roderick Beaton
I realize I will always be the poster child for police brutality, but I can try to use that as a positive force for healing and restraint.
~ Rodney King
Consolémonos por ignorar las relaciones que pueden existir entre una araña y un anillo de Saturno, y sigamos examinando lo que está a nuestro alcance. Voltaire.
~ Rodrigo Rey Rosa
The Beats, like their successors in the Sixties, have often been described as 'idealists'. But fantasies of total gratification are not the product of idealism. They arise from a narcissism that, finding the world unequal to its desires, retreats into a realm of heedless self-absorption. Modesty, convention, and self-restraint then appear as the enemies rather than as the allies of humanity. In this sense, the Beat generation marks a step away from civilization.
~ Roger Kimball
Sometimes I've had to put myself on a diet.
~ Roger Moore
I took one breath and realized I could be angry a bit later if I wanted to be angry. There would always be time for that. There was no rush. I could resist the reflex. And so I did.
~ Roland Merullo
La vérité, c'est qu'il y a une quantité incroyable de gouttes qui ne font pas déborder le vase. C'est fait pour ça.
~ Romain Gary
Trop, c'est personne.
~ Romain Gary
La vérité, c'est qu'il y a une quantité incroyable de gouttes qui ne font pas déborder le vase.
~ Romain Gary
Never had we ever kissed as lovers; if we touched lips it was as brother and sister. In one moment of emotion, our lips fell together by accident, but we quickly removed ourselves as though we were children touching glass with dirty hands.
~ Roman Payne
Man is not free unless government is limited.
~ Ronald Reagan
I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts.
~ Ronald Reagan
Quien no se mueve no siente sus cadenas
~ Rosa Luxemburgo