Quotes About Restraint

This is the nature of social existence. We talk in order to impose limits, to contain the world in a narrow frame.

Put 'em who threaten possessions and power together with 'em who offend our tastes in sex and dope. Those who're touched, put 'em in asylums. Pack off old ones to 'senior communities,' nursing homes. Our children? Keep'em prisoner, baby-sitter as warden. School? Good for fifteen to twenty years. Army afterward. Liberated, we live in prison. No this, no that. Kill us before we die!

However much the devil and wicked men may rage, however much they boil with their own unrestrained anger, there is no doubt that God checks and curbs their madness with a hidden bridle.

Not to dwell on this, let us here remember that on the whole subject of religion one rule of modesty and soberness is to be observed, and it is this, in obscure matters not to speak or think, or even long to know, more than the Word of God has delivered.

There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.

The trick was not to stifle the emotions, but to control them. Love, anger, grief – all were weapons in their way, but they needed to be kept in check.

You're a vile human being," said Pettle, the words spilling from his mouth before he could stop them.

For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love

But, O alas! so long, so far, Our bodies why do we forbear?

Possess your soul with patience.

Beware the fury of a patient man.

I am sensible that my keenness of temper, and a vanity to be distinguished for the day, make me too often splash in life.... I amresolved to restrain myself and attend more to decorum.

My life with Howard Hughes was and shall remain a matter on which I will have no comment.

I've been drunk maybe five times in my life. I don't like to lose control very much.

Keep the golden mean between saying too much and too little.

Her life, she realized, had all the charm of a steel trap.

Go light on the vices, such as carrying on in society. The social life ain't restful. Avoid running at all times. Don't look back. Something may be gaining on you.

Some of the most frantic lies on the face of life are told with modesty and restraint; for the simple reason that only modesty and restraint will save them.

Life is livable because we know that wherever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions towards us by an almost instinctive network of taboos.

It's sacred for an actor to keep their personal life personal.

Life is full of censorship. I cant spit in your eye.

For my life, I confess to you, feels to me today somewhat narrow and circumscribed.

I can't really act the way I want to act, or say what I want to say all the time. And a lot of times, I cover that up with a smile.

Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.