Quotes About Restraint

Logan Cale: If I just had my ass handed to me by a size three, I'd be inclined to mind my own business.

Sometimes no marketing is the best kind of marketing

If she tried to speak, it would all come out: Her pain, her fear. Her anger. Her tears. And then her efforts to be strong for the boy would have been for naught. So she kept it in, a dam against a raging river.

Shut up! Do you think we're morons?" Michael kept his expression blank. Oh how badly he wanted to say "Yup.

his whole body itching with the desire to ask questions. I need some tape to put over my mouth, he thought.

Hold him still, dammit!" Hans shouted.

One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.

An act of terrorism totally outside the bounds of international law and diplomatic tradition. ... a crisis that calls for firmness and restraint.

Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.

What is the mistake the criminal justice system is making? The major mistake, I believe, is the failure to differentiate between restraint and punishment; and to imagine that punishment will prevent, or deter, violence.

If I could put it into a very few words, dear sir, I should say that our prevalent belief is in moderation. We inculcate the virtue of avoiding excesses of all kinds—even including, if you will pardon the paradox, excess of virtue itself.

We believe that to govern perfectly it is necessary to avoid governing too much.

When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flown at it to hold it back from flight.

Ireland sober is Ireland stiff.

One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.

They must wait. The gates were closed. The keys that could open them were in other hands.

There are silences harder to take back than words.

Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.

No, never say nothin' without you're compelled tu,An' then don't say nothin' thet you can be held tu.

One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.

The idea of losing control is one that fascinates controlled people such as ourselves more than anything.

basketball courts ringed with barbed-wire fence.

one prisoner looking at another

I was relieved that in my unfamiliar babbling-and-wanting-to-talk state I'd stopped myself from blurting the thing on the edge of my tounge, the thing I'd never said, even thouhg it was something we both knew well enough without me saying it out loud to him in the street-which was, of course, I love you.