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Quotes About Restraint

She was a woman of reserve.
~ Louise Erdrich
Hjalmar ... is holding him, he'd put the handcuff on him ... one, not two ... he only had one ...
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Remove yourself from temptation. Don't even look at something if you know you shouldn't have it.
~ Lucy Diamond
Say what you choose, so long as it does not prevent you from seeing the facts. (And when you see them there is a good deal that you will not say.)
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
Credi che non sorgano impeti di sentimenti anche in me? Ma io non li lascio scatenare; io li afferro, li domo; li inchiodo. Hai visto le belve e il domatore nei serragli? Ma non credere: io, che pure sono il domatore, poi rido di me perché mi vedo come tale in questa parte che mi sono imposta verso i miei sentimenti; e ti giuro che qualche volta mi verrebbe voglia di farmi sbranare da una di queste belve...
~ Luigi Pirandello
El jilguero canta en la jaulita colgada entre las cortinas de la ventana. ¿Siente quizá la primavera que se aproxima? Ay de mí, quizá la siente también el antiguo tronco de nogal con el que fue hecha mi silla, que ahora cruje con el canto del jilguero. Tal vez se hablan, con ese canto y con este crujido, el pájaro enjaulado y el nogal reducido a silla.
~ Luigui Pirandello
Os loucos são livres e vivem presos por isso.
~ Luis Fernando Veríssimo
Shh," she said sternly, as if Luc had been the one who'd just let out the caterwaul.
~ Lynsay Sands
I want to be able to hump people's legs and have them do nothing about it.
~ Macaulay Culkin
A Casa Verde é um cárcere privado – disse um médico sem clínica.
~ Machado de Assis
tive um daqueles meus impulsos que nunca chegavam à execução: foi atirar à rua caixão, defunto e tudo.
~ Machado de Assis
A vida é cheia de obrigações que a gente cumpre, por mais vontade que tenha de as infringir
~ Machado de Assis
You don't know the meaning of moderation, do you, my darling? A happy medium is something I wonder if you'll ever learn.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
I took Amy's advice and resisted the urge to start snooping around in Nurse Boobsalot's life beyond my earlier cursory and unsuccessful internet search.
~ Maggie Shayne
What is required of us is restraint and humility. We can put up barriers on bridges to make it more difficult for that momentary impulse to become permanent. We can instruct young people that the kind of reckless drinking that takes place at a fraternity party makes the task of reading others all but impossible. There are clues to making sense of a stranger.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
What is required of us is restraint and humility. We can put up barriers on bridges to make it more difficult for that momentary impulse to become permanent. We can instruct young people that the kind of reckless drinking that takes place at a fraternity party makes the task of reading others all but impossible. There are clues to making sense of a stranger. But attending to them requires care and attention
~ Malcolm Gladwell
What is required of us is restraint and humility.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
If a man keeps his trap shut, the world will beat a path to his door.
~ Franklin P. Adams
Patience is a virtue not a vice.
~ Jaachynma N.E. Agu
The more we dig this world, the more prisoners we become
~ El Ca'Sophia M
Patience triumphs over everything.
~ Abhijit Naskar
the safest place to keep your secrets is to keep them in your mind with a locked tongue
~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Discipline is one of the basic and primary requirements for success in life.
~ Sunday Adelaja