Quotes About Restraint

I do like to keep my private life to myself. But then again, I don't really get up to much.

My father was intelligent and closed-mouthed. He knew a lot more than what he was ever going to tell you.

Source of national strength. By providing leadership, guidance, restraint, security, and values, the family unit promotes the greatness of the nation. Should the family fail in these responsibilities, the nation will suffer as a result.

Not many people, however, are content to follow Albert Einstein's summary advice: 'This is what I have to say about Bach's life's work: listen, play, love, revere – and keep your trap shut.

I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

The intelligent man makes certain reservations as to the choice of his listeners.

Patience! It was the least of my virtues.

Shut up, Axl!" he whispered fiercly. "If you want to break your neck, do it quietly or I'll break it for you.

Kloof barked excitedly and Stig hurried to grab her collar before she could go after Wulf and fetch him.

Every fiber of his being wanted to run, to get to the stables as quickly as he could. But he forced himself to walk casually, to avoid attracting attention to himself

Welcome folded arms, fixed eyes, a sigh that piercing mortifies; A look that's fastened to the ground, a tongue chained up without a sound.

Patience is the best medicine.

you go back to liberate the captives and sadly realize, some want to remain tied down in the cave...

my early writing was a silent fury - at what or whom, I had no idea - but I shut it in until it burned my bones and now, I've let it out...

freedom of conscience does not mean being uncontrolled - we have to control ourselves and at times submit to others...

He's never coming out except nailed in a box or in an ash can," he said. "He is not stepping out.

The Greek word used to translate the Aramaic word for meekness, which Jesus used in the Prophetic Blessing, was the word used for an animal that had been tamed and brought under the control of the bit and reins of its master. Meekness is power under control!

teetotaler.

A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go. Getting involved in ethnic, religious civil wars is a recipe for disaster.

Vi lo terrible que era decir cosas y no tener la oportunidad de hacerlo

Puedes escalar una montaña, puedes surcar a nado el mar. Puedes lanzarte a las llamas, pero nunca serás libre...

Hay muchas formas de tener a una persona encerrada. Piénsalo. Pero la mejor no tiene nada que ver con fármacos o cerrojos: aquí casi nadie tiene adónde ir. Si no tienes eso, no te vas. Es así de simple.

Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.

But something held me back. Perhaps I was stopped by that level of feeling, deeper than thought, which contains the truth.