Quotes About Restraint

The problem with some stars is that they lose perspective about correct adult behavior. People laugh at everything they say and do. Nobody says, 'Chill out, man. That's out of line.'

They say you can smoke 400 cigs a day and drink 20 cups of coffee, but you can't have a line or a drink again.

They say, 'Don't celebrate against your old team,' but I couldn't hold it in.

Sometimes I feel like hitting somebody. You look at the refs and they say, 'We'll take care of it.' I think, 'Yeah? You won't take care of it the way I'd like to take care of it.'

I think we need more idiot control.

When Jerry Springer thinks you've gone too far, my friends, you have gone too far.

I'm one of those strange beasts who really likes a corset.

If you're a thoughtful person, you won't want to be in people's faces all the time.

I keep my thoughts to myself, and I think that's one of the best ways to be.

It is safe to make a choice of your thoughts, scarcely ever safe to express them all.

There are thoughts we must not think.

We may say that all ages are dangerous to all people, in this dangerous life we live. But the thirties are a specially dangerous time for women. They have outlived the shyness and restraints of girlhood, and not attained to the caution and discretion of middle age. They are reckless, and consciously or unconsciously on the lookout for adventure. They see ahead of them the end of youth, and that quickens their pace.

The only reason I didn't kill my parents is because I did not want to spend my life in prison.

There is a kind of economy in life. You don't spend more than you have, or say more than you know, or throw your weight around more than necessary.

Restraining sexual impulses takes energy, and so does creative work. If you pour energy into your art, you have less available to restrain your libido.

You do not have to give people reasons to be violent, because they already have plenty of reasons. All you have to do is take away their reasons to restrain themselves.

The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.

Dalam berargumentasi jangan mengeluarkan ejekan mau pun sindiran tajam.

I can be terribly vulgar in private life, especially after a nip of dry sherry.

You don't have to lie if you know how to withhold the truth.

Paradoxically, without self-control you can't be free.

freedom can be achieved and retained only by sober men who take humanity as it is, not as humanity should be.

Power can be restrained only by counterbalancing power, Montesquieu reasoned. No man, and no political body or office, ought to possess unchecked power. For the sake of personal liberty and free community, power ought to be divided and hedged. Might this slow the actions of the state? Well, be it so, Montesquieu thought: freedom is better than haste.

The American Constitution is a practical secular covenant, drawn up by men who (with few exceptions) believed in a sacred Covenant, designed to restrain the human tendencies toward violence and fraud; the American Constitution is a fundamental law deliberately meant to place checks upon will and appetite.