Quotes About Restraint

Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul. —Henry Van Dyke

Les corps des hommes ont des formes avares, internées.

Sen bu olay? s?kça anlat?yorsundur, dedim. ... Hay?r, dedi, bunu anlatm?yorum...Her ÅŸey herkese anlat?lmaz...

Il n'y qu'un seul point sur lequel je me sens supérieur au commun des hommes : je suis tout ensemble plus libre et plus soumis qu'ils n'osent l'être.

I wanted to show her how disgusted I was by not eating a thing, but a chocolate cookie is a chocolate cookie.

In reading a recent novel, I myself was convicted by a comment the mother makes to her adult daughter: 'My dear, you've missed so many opportunities to say nothing.' We do miss these opportunities, as well as opportunities to say less and say it more judiciously. And so we miss particular delights of finding words and speaking them into silences big enough to allow them to be heard.

You're right not to talk. It's a sort of higher honesty, I think. Once you start talking, there's no telling what you'll say.

Some dogs bite. So you keep them away from people. You can't just get rid of them, for being the way they are. And now and then you can be glad to have them around, to snarl the way a good dog never does.

You're right not to talk. It's sort of a higher honesty, I think. Once you start talking, there's no telling what you'll say.

morality is a check upon the strongest temptations.

Vive usted prácticamente como un monje, su casa es de una enorme austeridad, su dormitorio parece la celda de un trapense, realmente es de una sobriedad extraordinaria.

La libertad está estrechamente ligada a la coerción, es decir a aquello que la niega o limita.

El estilo borgiano es uno de los milagros estéticos del siglo que termina, un estilo que desinfló la lengua española de la elefantiasis retórica, del énfasis y la reiteración que la asfixiaban, que la depuró hasta casi la anorexia y obligó a ser luminosamente inteligente

ninguna locura, no se disforzaba. Se tomaba sus copas y nada más.

It was as if Hannah had sprung a leak and her character, usually so meticulous and contained, was spilling all over the place.

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.' 

I needed to keep my watch on because I needed to know exactly what time it was. And when they tried to take it off me I screamed, so they let me keep it on.

He heard the Baymen tell of war, but they never said it could be harnessed, its head held down, and made to run in place.

Let us stop making unjustified claims and exaggerated projections about the future even if the editors of some eminent journals are just waiting to publish them.

Zizhang asked, "What is keen discernment?" Confucius said, "When slanders that seep under the skin and grievances that cause pain do not drive you to an immediate response, you may be said to have keen discernment.

I kept pushing the old noga through the floorboards near, and the Durango 95 ate up the road like spaghetti.

Then I wanted to sick up the gluey pie I'd had before the start of the evening, But I couldn't stand the sort of veshch, sicking all over the floor, so I held it back.

And when you're eighteen years old, it doesn't take that much provoking to get you to a place where you can't stop yourself

When he entered the drawing-room she was sitting alone, in a large, low chair, made without arms, so as to admit the full expansion of her dress, but hollowed and rounded at the back, so as to afford her the support that was necessary to her. She had barely spoke three words since she had left the dining-room, but the time had not passed heavily with her.