Quotes About Restraint

It seems the more I play Jane Austen, the more poetic my writing becomes. The other day, I left a Post-it note for my husband that had the word 'ergo' on it. I gotta rein it in before I get all full out Madonnannoying.

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.

Bind up thy words that they run not riot, and grow wanton, and gather up sins for themselves in too much talking. Let them be rather confined, and held back within their own banks. An overflowing river quickly gathers mud.

I have to work hard to be punctual, to not lose my temper, take direction and be told what to do - and most of all listen rather than talk.

I do have a very strong threshold for anger.

Maybe Elvis was inhibited by inbred religious prohibitions or an Oedipal complex, or maybe he simply preferred the thrill of a denied release. Whatever put the brakes on the famous pelvis, it ground to a halt at a certain point, and that was it.

I'm such a Goody Two-shoes, but I get a vicarious thrill at someone sticking it to the Man.

There are two worldviews in thriller writing: the paranoid view, like Chuck Logan's, that everything is inside a large clockwork. I like those books; they're intricate and thought out, but my view is that everything is chaotic and stupid. Chaos reigns, and civilized people do what they can to hold it back.

I've still got a lot of tantrums to throw.

I'm a very soft-spoken person. I don't throw furniture. I don't throw tantrums.

There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few.

I don't have any reasons to be disrespectful or throw anybody under the bus.

I am not one who - who flamboyantly believes in throwing a lot of words around.

When two kids are being completely berserk, and they're naked and throwing food around, sometimes I just let it go because I can see a future where they're going to be dressed, and they're going to be at school. So I kind of let stuff go sometimes.

I mean I've never been thrown in jail in New York or Los Angeles.

I have thrown chairs, but only during football matches. Generally, I am well-behaved. I do not like to make people angry.

I'd been in my share of fights but never thrown the first punch, and I'm not quick to anger.

When infuriated by an outrageous column, do not be suckered into responding with an abusive e-mail. Pundits so targeted thumb through these red-faced electronic missives with delight, saying 'Hah! Got to 'em.'

But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

One very clear impression I had of all the Beautiful People was their prudence. It may be that they paid for their own airline tickets, but they paid for little else.

I went from 198 pounds to 109 while I was in prison in France, and I had to tie my clothes on with rope.

If you tie a man's hands there is nothing moral about his not committing murder.