Quotes About Restraint

If a person offends you, and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to extreme measures; simply watch your chance and hit him with a brick.

Swimming's no good. I don't seem to care for it, somehow, when there ain't anybody to say I shan't go in.

La promesa de no hacer una cosa es el medio más seguro del mundo para tener ganas de hacerla.

whithersoever he turned, the bars and shackles of civilization shut him in and bound him hand and foot.

all I have to do is extend my hand but I can't run that far.

He prefers not to ruin things with any more questions. What it is is what it is.

She didn't overreact. It may have crossed her mind to march down to the woman responsible for sending this charity shitbox, but she didn't. She swallowed the glint of anger. She packed it into her prim-and-proper voice, and like her son, moved on.

I called back, but not loud enough, probably. I don't like making noise in public

Liesel was tempted to ask her the meaning, but it never eventuated.

era una buena chica. Mantenía la boca cerrada allí donde iba. Llevaba el secreto enterrado muy adentro.

Bi oju ri enu a pamo. Not everything the eye sees should be spoken by the mouth.

The rigorousness of restraint is other than the one of the "exactitude" of a loose, indifferent "reasoning" which belongs equally to everyone and whose results are compelling within the sphere of its own claims to certainty. Such results are compelling, however, only because the claim to truth is content with the correctness that comes from deduction and from insertion into a regulated and calculable order.

Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.

siempre se disfruta de libertad a menos que estemos encarcelados

The supreme gift of an artist is the knowledge of when to stop.

Sencillamente no me gusta tener delante de mí lo que no puedo alcanzar.

If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner...if I let it slip from my tongue, I am ITS prisoner.

Zor zamanlarda itidalini korumay?, güzel anlarda da a??r? sevincini dizginlemeyi hat?rla. -Horatius, Carmina

The fact still remains that "to fast" means primarily "not to eat."1

He remained restrained and strangely composed. It was a composure born of extreme provocation. It stemmed from a lucidity that lies beyond rage.

Y el Aire estaba plagado de pensamientos y Cosas que Decir. Pero en momentos como ésos sólo se dicen Pequeñas Cosas. Las Grandes Cosas permanecen dentro, sin decirse.

Because the child bound us together; but the link became a chain.

she wants me to embrace her, but I do not want to abuse eros, or her.

It wasn't like he was holding me so much as trying to hold onto something.