Quotes About Restraint

I guess nothing restrains people from demanding ideal conditions. Very little restrains them from anything.

The sun was shut up in a cold bottle.

Sometimes, the hardest thing was doing nothing.

Sólo Dios sabe cuánto me cuesta mirar y remirar tantos encantos, sin atreverme a extender mis manos hacia ella. Apoderarse de lo que se ofrece a nuestra vista y nos embelesa, ¿no es un instinto propio de la humanidad? ¿No se esfuerza el niño por coger cuanto le gusta? Y yo..?

Now and then the fable of the horse recurs to me. Weary of liberty, he suffered himself to be saddled and bridled, and was ridden to death for his pains.

ONE HUNDRED TIMES have I been on the point of embracing her. Heavens! what a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it! And laying hold is the most natural of human instincts. Do not children touch everything they see?

Man is born not to solve the problems of the universe, but to find out where the problem begins, and then to restrain himself within the limits of the comprehensible.

And show me the man who is ill-tempered and yet is good enough to hide it, to bear it alone, without destroying the joy all around him!

Unfortunately, one can hardly think or say anything right anymore without grievously wounding the state, the gods or public opinion.

Blau Es ist die Farbe des Dunklen. Es ist als Farbe eine Energie und in der höchsten Reinheit ein reizendes Nichts. Es scheint zurückzuweichen (die fernen Berge sieht man blau) und zieht einen aber nach. Es ist angenehm anzusehen, es gibt ein Gefühl von Kälte und erinnert an einen Schatten. Blaue Zimmer wirken zwar weit, aber kalt und leer. Blaues Licht stimmt traurig. Wird blau von der Plusseite berührt ist dies angenehm.

Anch'io tratto il mio cuoricino come un fanciullo malato: gli è permesso ogni capriccio. Non dirlo in giro, però: c'è gente che me ne farebbe un rimprovero.

Dio solo sa che cosa voglia dire sedersi, essere dinnanzi a una creatura incantevole e non poter porgerle la mano, nonostante l'afferrare sia l'impulso più naturale fra gli uomini. I bambini non allungano la mano verso tutto quello che colpisce i loro sensi?

despite his single-minded determination, he forced himself to give her one last opportunity to escape what he could no longer control himself.

If he had come across her six years ago, he would have simply ridden off with her and made her his. But he was "civilized" now and so couldn't follow his natural inclinations anymore.

The poor child felt like a little bird that is placed in a glittering cage.

I say, that Power must never be trusted without a check.

It is great to get praise from the lips of taciturnity.

While freedom can be a state of nature, liberty requires a degree of self-discipline. It is the essence of self-governance.

I came on my mother shedding a few tears in the drawing room. My mother had hastily blown her nose and spoken to me in an irritated way—a rare thing for her. I knew she knew she should not have been doing it—such demonstrations either of grief or happiness were not the thing at all—and so I was not upset by her crossness, feeling that we had been caught out, as it were, together, and that we must both do better in future.

Something can (has) been said for sobriety but very little.

Perhaps it would be a good idea if everyone just stopped writing for a couple of years and allowed readers to catch up.

The only way to save money is not to spend it.

Every dog has one free bite. A dog cannot be presumed to be vicious until he has proved that he is by biting someone.

My father was one of those men who sit in a room and you can feel it: the simmer, the sense of some unpredictable force that might, at any moment, break loose, and do something terrible. [Burnside, p. 27]