Quotes About Restraint

I wish I could just hug you all, but I'm not gonna.

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

I wish we hadn't used all the keys on the keyboard.

Keep to the middle if you wish to keep moderation. The mid way is the safe way. Moderation abides in the mean, and moderation is virtue. Every abiding place outside the bounds of moderation is only exile to the wise man.

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.

Everybody in the world has a different reason for wishing they could say things that most people know not to say.

It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.

Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.

The intention behind 'The Witch' was to be very restrained. I think that story, while it sometimes annoys me, needed to take itself incredibly seriously.

Fear causes individuals to restrain their spending and firms to withhold investments; as a result, the economy weakens, confirming their fear and leading them to restrain spending further. The downturn deepens, and a vicious circle of despair takes hold.

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

Freedom is not the absence of obligation or restraint, but the freedom of movement within healthy, chosen parameters.

It is only when our life proceeds within bounds and in an accepted, disciplined way, that the mind can be free.

It is questionless desirable in all ordinary cases, wherever positive law is established, to restrain ourselves within the letter of that law and to allow the criminal all the benefit, if benefit to him shall result, of any evasion or escape that the law shall afford him.

I believe that government should confine itself to the public realm and that it should be as stripped down as possible, within reason. It should not be burdened by excess bureaucracy.

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

I loved the music, but the excesses of rock n' roll never really appealed to me at all. I couldn't see the point of getting up in front of a lot of people when you weren't in control of your wits.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

You do a clean show and it's over and the audience have enjoyed themselves and you've enjoyed yourself, and you haven't had to resort to shock.

I think we're all sensitive; everyone has a certain way about themselves that people don't like to let their emotions out too often. I think people tend to suppress them and hold them in, so I think there's a bit of that in me.

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

When you are in prison, you have but one desire: freedom. If you fall ill in prison, you do not think about freedom - you think about health. Health is, therefore, more important than freedom.

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.