Quotes About Restraint

trueholding n. the act of trying to keep an amazing discovery to yourself, fighting the urge to shout about it from the rooftops because you're afraid that it'll end up being diluted and distorted, and will no longer have been created just for you.

trueholding n. the act of trying to keep and amazing discovery to yourself, fighting the urge to shout about it from the rooftops because you're afraid that it'll end up being diluted and distorted, and will no longer have been created just for you.

Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom.

Moral laws are set as a curb and restraint to these exorbitant desires, which they cannot be but by rewards and punishments, that will over-balance the satisfaction any one shall propose to himself in the breach of the law.

Chains are but an ill wearing, how much Care soever hath been taken to file and polish them.

Silence, sometimes my fortress, always my prison.

As a general rule, if you're holding down a job it's best to lie low and keep your mouth shut.

If you want to destroy something in this life, be it acne, a blemish or the human soul, all you need to do is to surround it with thick walls. It will dry up inside.

She loved him, and she knew he loved her, but come on—if everyone slept with the person he or she had secretly fallen in love with, the world would be chaos.

Restraint was a mountaintop on a faraway continent.

If any have a stone to throwIt is not I, ever or now.

Much of leadership is knowing whom to select, whom to encourage, whom to restrain, and whom to replace.

Why can't we fall in love--true and deep--without it being some huge threat to the working order of things? In another life Will and I might rip each others' clothes off with our teeth and make a whole new world out of entirely different problems. But this is not that life, and I get that.

I lead a life of severe self-control mitigated by moments of impulse.

She didn't know if Evie had always been emotionally promiscuous or if it was the grief talking. It was like she was infected by sadness, and as a carrier she made everyone around her sad. Which seemed reckless and a little selfish to Paige. When you're contagious you quarantine yourself. Evie should stay inside until the grief ran its course. Stay away from other people, children, anyone whose psychological immune system might be compromised.

Only the disciplined ones in life are free. If you are undisciplined, you are a slave to your moods and your passions."

And I breathe large at home. I drop my cloak, Unclasp my girdle, loose the band that ties My hair...now could I but unloose my soul! We are sepulchred alive in this close world, And want more room.

I do not say everything I think (as has been said of me by master-critics) but I take every means to say what I think, which is different! — or I fancy so!

But the prison doors are shut close, and I could dash myself against them sometimes with a passionate impatience of the need-less captivity. I feel so intimately and from evidence, how, with air and warmth together in any fair proportion, I should be as well and happy as the rest of the world, that it is intolerable —

I should of been chewing on my words some, so everybody else would have had a better chance of swallowing them.

Jane, he realized now, with an old familiar chill, had never lost her grip on his leash.

Hush, puss. This wouldn't happen if you didn't fight me so.