Quotes About Restraint

Department stores were a depressing no-no, as I no longer felt able to spend money.

A bubble of giggles had started to build in my chest and I pleaded with some unseen deity to keep them under control.

We watched the sun's gentle fall, and the lengthening shadows creeping towards us, and I thought about the New York skyline and that nobody was truly free. Perhaps all freedom—physical, personal—only came at the cost of somebody or something else.

Sabes lo difícil que es no decir nada? ¿A pesar de que hasta el último átomo de tu cuerpo se esfuerza en lo contrario?

veiled insubordination that he

With Will I sensed a vast internal hinterland, a world he wouldn't give me even a glimpse of.

too. Your face when you came back from diving that time told me everything; there is a hunger in you, Clark. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do. I

W]e need to think twice about raining down vengeance and anger as our default position.

He was aware that he was not completely sane, so he kept himself in rigid check, playing both jailer and prisoner.

There are in the souls of wicked men those hellish principles reigning, that would presently kindle and flame out into hell-fire, if it were not for God's restraints. There is laid in the very nature of carnal men a foundation for the torments of hell: there are those corrupt principles, in reigning power in them, and in full possession of them, that are seeds of hell-fire.

of a corrupt spirit, that breaks over all bounds, and loves inordinate vastnesse; that is it we ought to be carefull of.

Sin is the ruin and misery of the soul; it is destructive in its nature; and if God should leave it without restraint, there would need nothing else to make the soul perfectly miserable.

who was never seen drunk, a man whose power rested in quiet confidence and calm deliberation

and what about you? Do you wanna make out? - A little yeah. Unfortunately ,I'm working.

Icy people often freeze themselves in order to hold in check a volcanic stew of disturbing and conflictual feelings. Emotional hibernation, if you will. Crack the ice and the stuff inside comes pouring out with all the discipline of molten lava.

The entire drama of Torah flows from this point of departure. Judaism remains God's supreme call to humankind to freedom and creativity on the one hand, and on the other, to responsibility and restraint – becoming God's partner in the work of creation.

I wanted to cry but I didn't, I probably should have cried, I should have drowned us there in the room ending our suffering.

You kill, you lie, you rob, you hit old men and steal their boots. I only thank God you draw the line at swearing - it would have been just too dreadful otherwise.

The object that was pinning me haplessly to the ground, like a butterfly on a collector's tray, was of twentieth-century origin and of very specific function. Oh, all right, it was a public lavatory.

I'd never punched an old lady before; I didn't have any problem doing so now.

She raised her hands to wipe her face - and discovered she could not do so. Bonds bit her wrists. Chains jangled. Her arms were painfully constrained. Clearly another great day was about to begin.

Did he do anything bad to you?" "Apart from knock me senseless, clap me in chains, and bring me to Milton Keynes? No.

One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.

anger you have locked up in you, and that's healthy. I just think you could be a little more judicious