Quotes About Restraint

She could not bear to lie in bed and wait, so she pestered the nurse until she could sit on a veranda, screened by a thick curtain of golden shower from the street, because she could assure herself she was not blind by looking through her glowing eyelids at the light from the sky. She sat there all day, and felt the waves of heat and perfume break across her in shock after shock of shuddering nostalgia. But nostalgia for what?

If you can repress for a moment your spinster-like longing to meddle in my affairs,' said Lymond cuttingly, from the door, 'I am waiting to go.

It is not advisable to crow. It might be oneself next time.

Anxiously, Lymond called. 'If she undresses, I pray you do not restrain her! It can cause untold injury!

I wonder if there exists any other man, even at this Court, who has to be restrained day and night to preserve a girl's honour?

You are not coming.' 'But——' said Christopher. 'You heard your father,' said Killingworth. 'You can't hold enough liquor.' 'Can you?' said Christopher, goaded. 'No,' said George Killingworth, after a moment's reflection. 'But who else is going to help us to bed?

Will you pack up all your cold-boiled emotions, and do what the hell you are told?

this plain, sulky, inarticulate girl, who had never had any

There is only one kind of wisdom that has any social value, and that is the knowledge of one's own limitations.

Look, we all have something to bring to this discussion. But I think from now on the thing you should bring is silence. - Rimmer

He giggled and sniggered. He would have laughed out loud but he didn't have the room.

He continued to lie there, like someone lying awake at four o'clock in the morning, unable to put his mind to rest, but unable to find anything to do with it.

Benim mutluluk kapasitemi, diye ekledi, bir kibrit kutusuna s??d?rabilirsin, hem de içindeki kibritleri bile ç?karmadan.

a patient man is better than a warrior.

Society indeed conspires to keep you ball and chained.

Always keep your mouth shut with a drunk. You can never win with piss tanks. The most you can hope for is to break even.

It's called 'designer prisoner-of-conscience labour.

Ask the gods nothing excessive.

Trouble, with its memories of pain, drips in our hearts as we try to sleep, so men against their will learn to practice moderation.

Tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.

She looked just like a painting dying to speak.

Little liberties are great offenses.

You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.

To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.