Quotes About Restraint

The body—the cage—is everything of the most respectable—but through the bars, the wild animal looks out.

those who have listened do not find it easy to talk; they keep their sorrows and joys to themselves and tell no one.

I enrage myself with an imbecile. I say, 'I would like to kick him.' Instead I kick the table. I say, 'This table, it is the imbecile, I kick him so.

There hung about her the restrained energy of a whiplash.

I should hope, Mr. Poirot, that whatever our feelings, we can keep them in decent control. And we can certainly control our actions.

Mr Rycroft said nothing. It was so difficult not to say the wrong thing to Captain Wyatt that it was usually safer not to reply at all.

Monsieur, pray confine yourself to the point.

Never display emotion.

You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master.

You can't rightly estimate what a man will do when he's in drink.

You shouldn't shoot people," said Lord Caterham in a tone of mild remonstrance. "You shouldn't really. I daresay some of them richly deserve it—but all the same it will lead to trouble.

As pessoas mais caladas e submissas são muitas vezes capazes da violência mais repentina e inesperada, pois quando perdem o controle, elas o perdem por inteiro!

I should hardly advise you to go too much by all I've told you. I'm a malicious creature.

And catch a fox And put him in a box And never let him go.

I wanted to kill... yes, I wanted to kill. But- incongruous as it may seem to some- I was retrained and hampered by my innate sense of justice. The innocent must not suffer.

Vera cried: 'Don´t you see? We´re the Zoo...Last night, we were hardly human any more. We´re the Zoo...

Without acute mania it may nevertheless occur that certain natures lack what I should describe as braking power. If you or I were to say, 'I hate someone—I wish he were dead,' the idea would pass from our minds as soon as the words were uttered. The brakes would work automatically. But, in some people the idea, or obsession, holds. They see nothing but the immediate gratification of the idea formed.

Adalar?n en iyi yan? insan?n istedi?i zaman kaçamamas?nda...

what is madness? I can assure you that the more we study the subject, the more difficult we find it to pronounce. We all practise a certain amount of self-deception, and when we carry it so far as to believe we are the Czar of Russia, we are shut up or restrained. But there is a long road before we reach that point. At what particular spot on it shall we erect a post and say, 'On this side sanity, on the other madness?

Great mistake to say too much. Remember that. Never tell all you know — not even to the person you know best.

Subdue your melodramatic fancies", said Tommy.

Disciplina sem arregimentação.

Nu strig. Mi-am aruncat gura.

Keep watch over your mouth, lest it bring you to grief.