Quotes About Restraint

It is part of the irony of life that the strongest feelings of devoted gratitude of which human nature seems to be susceptible, are called forth in human beings towards those who, having the power entirely to crush their earthly existence, voluntarily refrain from using that power.

Every one knows how absurd it would be to infer from what a man is or does when in a private station, that he will be and do exactly the like when a despot on a throne; where the bad parts of his human nature, instead of being restrained and kept in subordination by every circumstance of his life and by every person surrounding him, are courted by all persons, and ministered to by all circumstances.

All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.

A simple test of a civilised human being is how they describe those who have treated them badly.

It was terrible to have that much nervous energy and nothing to do with it.

In handing down a ruling in Hedgepeth v. Washington Metro , Judge Roberts stated that "no one is very happy about the events that led to this litigation." Ansche Hedgepeth, he recounted, "was arrested, searched, and handcuffed. Her shoelaces were removed, and she was transported in the windowless rear compartment of a police vehicle to a juvenile processing center, where she was booked, fingerprinted

The answer was a big NO! In zero gravity, as soon as we touched a tile, we found ourselves being pushed away. Without a suitably positioned restraint system, we could not work to fix the damage. We would have damaged more tiles than we fixed. I asked that we not haul the MMU on the STS-1 mission, because it could not have helped us do tile repairs.

I always wanted to be a juvenile delinquent but my parents wouldn't let me.

Are you out of your princely wits?" What's he? Let me have his beard sawed off and his eyebrows filed more civil!

She had got the habit of silence; and though she reserved a shy, soft smile for her father, she would not talk to him.

In temperate countries, where man had succeeded in putting most forms of nature save his own under a reasonable degree of restraint, the status of the triffid was thus made quite clear. But in the tropics, particularly in the dense forest areas, they quickly became a scourge.

Fear makes you silent when you need to be loud and loud when you need silence.

It makes you very uncomfortable to realize that your emotional attachment to something is an indulgence.

Once, long years ago, I thought I could set a canoe-load of my people free by breaking the bands at my wrists and killing the white man who held the weapon. I had the strength in my hands to do such a deed and I had the fire within, but I didn't do it." "What held you back?" Amos shook his head. "My hand was restrained and I'm glad that it was, for the years between have shown me that it does a man no good to be free until he knows how to live, how to walk in step with God.

Moderation has never yet engineered an explosion

Not being the sort to throw a book, she pounded her fist on her cushion.

The Earl of Mayne's kisses would never be called objectionable. They were so sophisticated and sleek, persuasive and delicate, that Helene didn't mind them - much. It was just that she really wanted to get back to Rees. She had a thought about the score he had given her. "I must go," she said, pulling back. And then added, "alas.

It was just that - Gabby's common sense came to the rescue. Quill was an uncommonly handsome man. His eyes made her feel weak in the knees and warm in the belly. / The problem, Gabby rationalized, is that Father never allowed me to have anything to do with men. So now I am overcome by the species in general.

I couldn't strut around like Mick Jagger, or smash my instrument up like Jimi Hendrix or Pete Townshend: bitter subsequent experience has taught me that if you get carried away and try and smash up a piano by pushing it offstage, you end up looking less like a lawless rock god and more like a furniture removal man having a bad day.

No drugs, except maybe poppers.

Sometimes I wish that I could stop you from talking, when I hear the silly things that you say.

I don't do any vulgar movements.

Never overdo anything, always have a limit and do keep to it. For, that's just what it means to be self-controlled. ~Emeasoba George

Never overdo anything, have a limit and keep to it.