Quotes About Restraint

Nevermore," Lolli said. "That's what Luis calls it, because there are three rules: Never more than once a day, never more than a pinch at a time, and never more than two days in a row.

Don't sit as if you have nothing to say. You should be bursting with things to say. You just choose at this particular place and time, not to say them.

The problem with drugs is that people forget to stop doing them. There's a time and a place for everything, Mr. Mackey, and it's called college.

By the time I went up to Cambridge, I was extremely quiet and well behaved, although I now meet people who remember me as not like that at all.

When I get really hammered I take my clothes off. That's a sure sign. It's been a long time since the last time I did that. Probably a year.

We shall not kill and maybe next time we even won't.

If I have to spend prolonged periods of time in a trailer, I go mad. Stuck in a metal box doing nothing, I lie there paralysed with boredom.

All of the people of my time were bound with chains. They had forgotten the long fields and the standing corn. They had forgotten the west winds.

There is a time and a place for things. Sometimes one needs to put a filter on oneself. That can be a good thing.

There's a realization that you have to do something but you just can't do it all the time.

It is time to stop personal destruction and prying into private lives

Stretch the bow to the very full, and you will wish you had stopped in time.

It occurs to me that for a long time she has been doing her own version of resisting.

Any time you put too many sparks around a powder keg, the thing is going to explode, and if the things that explodes is still inside the house, then the house will be destroyed.

The last time I threw a punch was in primary school, and that was probably a slap.

It's time for the government to scale back, not for people of faith to scale back!

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Everything in moderation except whiskey, and sometimes too much whiskey is just enough.

When a prisoner of style escapes, it's called an evasion.

We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains -- chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment -- in a word, Circumstance -- and against these bonds the strongest of us struggle in vain.

Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it I even carry it so far as to totally abstain from total abstinence itself.

Loose and forbear!

to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

Well, I know. It's jam—that's what it is. Forty times I've said if you didn't let that jam alone I'd skin you. Hand me that switch.