Quotes About Restraint

Obviously you try to keep as much of your private life as private as you can.

I'm not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It's just not who I am.

You keep life on a short leash." "What's that supposed to mean?" "You're scared of what you can't control.

I like to keep my private life private for the most part.

In republican Government the majority however composed, ultimately give the law," he wrote in his memorandum and implied in his letters, and "what is to restrain them from unjust violations of the rights and interests of the minority, or of individuals?

The stability of the planet – and the presumption of restraint – will have to rest in the hands of Xi Jinping and other powerful leaders. To forestall disaster, the rest of the world will have no choice but to try to put themselves in Trump's shoes.

Our lives are restrained by two laws of biology: all of life's entities and processes are obedient to the laws of physics and chemistry; and all of life's entities and processes have arisen through evolution and natural selection.

This time he was going to fall apart silently.

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.

A substantial and beautiful victory of all victories is to overcome your tongue.

Demur not the attitude of others, when you adopt a similar way for others, deliberately or not. Only realize, how that hurts and causes the feelings of insult.

Life, without adopting discipline and limits, in all of its dimensions, becomes the victim of various diseases.

One handcuffs itself, with its vanity character; it breaks the best ties and contacts.

Ride upon your anger, never let anger, ride upon your senses.

If a man wanted to put the entire universe in his breast, he couldn't do it with his chest stuck out.

El mundo es un muro de piedra -pensaba-, y han puesto las piedras tan juntas que no hay ni una sola rendija por la que uno pueda entrar.

Still waters run deep.

As soothing as it would be to rip off his arm and beat him with it, it would really slow things down.

Fasting may not be as easy as feasting, but after a while it is not too different. Both are extremes. It is not hard to go the extreme way, but what is really difficult is neither to fast nor to feast, but to be moderate in everything we do.

Actually, when you come to understand self-discipline you begin to understand the limits of freedom. You grasp the fact that freedom is never absolute, that it must always be contained within the framework of other people's freedom.

Once, she closed the book abruptly and said with annoyance, "That's enough." "Why?" "Because I've had it, it's always the same story: inside something small there's something even smaller that wants to leap out, and outside something large there's always someting larger that wants to keep it a prisoner.

What a waste it would be, I said to myself, to ruin our story by leaving too much space for ill feelings: ill feelings are inevitable, but the essential thing is to keep them in check.

But I've always had a low voice, I can't yell, the words fall a short distance away like a handful of pebbles thrown by a child.

El sueño de progreso sin límites es, en realidad, una pesadilla llena de ferocidad y muerte.