Quotes About Restraint

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

I am not too much greedy.

The point is that you can't be too greedy.

I grew up in austerity in the 1940s and 1950s.

I guarantee whenever I get married or have a baby, everyone is going to want to know my kid's name and I'm not going to say it for ages. That's just the way I want to do it. It'll come out but it won't have come from me.

If you can't take something down in 10 bullets, you probably shouldn't even own a gun.

There's so much of it you can't control. There is no handbook for how to conduct yourself in the public world.

Never say anything bad about a man until you've walked a mile in his shoes. By then he's a mile away, you've got his shoes, and you can say whatever you want to.

Couldn't dance because it would awaken carnal desire, which in my case was not only awake, it was dressed and down on the corner waiting for the bus.

I would if I could …I think… but I can't …she. ..I… have made sure of that

The greatest remedy for anger is delay. SENECA

Third, agree that verbal or physical explosions that attack the other person are not appropriate responses to anger.

Better to be patient than powerful; better to have self-control than to conquer a city. —Proverbs 16:32

Restraining our response is not the same as storing our anger. It is refusing to take the action that we typically take when feeling angry.

All of us are prisoners, to one degree or another, of our experience.

It means using such means as civil disobedience, outspoken criticism, protest, pacifism, voluntary poverty and even gentle violence if it comes to a matter of restraining some impetuous redneck.

I find myself crying unabashedly, then I try to suck it in, realizing this is inappropriate.

I had learned in the intervening time the folly of limiting desire to the possible.

We are always whirling in the trance of deficiency in which we equate being alone with loneliness, restraint with deprivation, being silent with being empty. I get seduced by the promise of adding yet another ornament to the tree of myself and forget to pay attention to the heavenly invisibles.

The perfect life, the perfect lie, I realised after Christmas, is one which prevents you from doing that which you would ideally have done (painted, say, or written unpublishable poetry) but which, in fact, you have no wish to do.

He who has learned not to intrude his emotions upon his fellows has also learned not to intrude them upon himself.

It is specially characteristic of the German that the more servile he on the one hand is, the more uncontrolled is he on the other; restraint and want of restraint—originality, is the angel of darkness that buffets us.

Hartstein was trying to keep himself under control. He wanted to scream; getting information from Brannick was like getting credit from the phone company.

at the basis of every virtue is our power to break its hold