Quotes About Restraint

I learned that I can't be as indulgent as I'd like to be when I record.

When I was a kid, I got sent off for head-butting a referee: I ran 50m to argue a decision, I was shown a red card, and I head-butted him. I'm really not proud of that.

I try to handle myself with class.

I try to handle myself with dignity.

Harry Truman wrote scathing letters, but he almost never sent them.

I hate exercising self-control.

I don't believe in beating people up just for the sake of grabbing a headline.

As much as I hate to say it, what I'm coming to realize is that all we're really able to do is put the brakes on. Imagine going real fast in a Flintstones car, and my heel is out there. I went to Washington to change the world, and all I can do is put my heel out.

Even a burglar hesitates to go back for more.

So many limits in Catholic high school! I'm not a bad Catholic, but everything was off-limits.

To turn his head and look at her would have been inconceivable folly. With hands locked together, invisible among the press of bodies, they stared steadily in front of them, and instead of the eyes of the girl, the eyes of the aged prisoner gazed mournfully at Winston out of nests of hair.

It is a silly piece of cruelty to confine an ignorant man all day with nothing to do; it is like chaining a dog in a barrel. Only an educated man, who has consolations within himself, can endure confinement.

Nu mai ai voie sa ?i se scoale

Everything other than working was forbidden: walking in the streets, having fun, singing, dancing, getting together, everything was forbidden.

You're only a rebel from the waist downwards," he told her.

At the very time I should speak out I feel more than ever the impossibility of doing so.

All men labor under some impingements on their freedom; none is absolutely at liberty.

Sometimes I sense a deep anger welling up, and have to choke it back.

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

There is, in every man, an animal...imprisoned, like a galley slave, and there is a gate, and if we open the gate, the animal will rush out, like the slave finding his way to escape.

A muchos el universo les parece honrado; las gentes honestas tienen los ojos castrados. Por eso temen la obscenidad. No sienten ninguna angustia cuando oyen el grito del gallo ni cuando se pasean bajo un cielo estrellado. Cuando se entregan 'a los placeres de la carne' lo hacen a condición de que sean insípidos.

To choose evil is to choose freedom—"freedom, emancipation from all restraint.

we did not lack modesty—on the contrary—but something urgently drove us to defy modesty as immodestly as possible.

Hay varias cosas que sin duda no haré. Es muy improbable que un día vaya a la Luna, que viaje en submarino o que aprenda chino, saxófono o ergódica, aunque tenga muchas ganas. Tampoco es muy probable que un día me vuelva oficial en actividad, estibador en Valparaíso, apoderado de un gran banco, cajero, explotador agrícola o presidente de la república.