Quotes About Restraint

Keep your hands to yourself!" might almost be put at the head of the first chapter of every book on etiquette.

Anarchism, then, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion; the liberation of the human body from the dominion of property; liberation from the shackles and restraint of government.

He that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well.

Do not be in a hurry to tie what you cannot untie.

Porque una cosa es disfrutar de la vida y saborearla, en tantas vertientes como esta tiene, y otra muy distinta ese maximalismo cuyo objetivo es el afán y el frenesí de diversión sin restricciones. Lo

Iban a comerse el mundo y ahora se limitan a comentarlo, si es que lo comentan, circunscritos como están a los límites de su limitada capacidad de pensar.

All philosophy in two words, — sustain and abstain.

He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.

The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forebearing.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

All men and all women have their secret gardens, whose gates they guard against the profane invasion of the vulgar crowd. These are visual pictures of what they would do if they could do as they pleased. The lucky ones find the right time, place, and person, and get to do it, while the rest must wander wistfully outside their own walls.

To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint. They are eager to barter their independence for relief from the burdens of willing, deciding and being responsible for inevitable failure. They willingly abdicate the directing of their lives to those who want to plan, command and shoulder all responsibility

The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.

She submitted patiently to all the handling of Hynes, as if she knew there were no use making any protest – but each day, just before four o'clock in the afternoon, something waked in her, and the training of a lifetime called her. She would tear against the wires of her pen or dash at the fence and try to leap it. She had not forgotten.

Something told her to hide the feeling from Herb. That something, that damned something, was the sense of civilized dignity that is one of our most civilized attributes, the source of so many missed opportunities.

To some extent a life of celibacy is a picture of how all of us are to live, containing our passions for God's purposes.

We may say what we like about his politics, but the king was a faithful husband who sincerely felt that those in power ought to comport themselves with decorum and restraint for the sake of the country.

Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.

And as was Gandhi's wont, he would not only insist on hygienic and social restraints but would preach to this group the basic ethical rules for the forthcoming march: None was to touch any one's property on the way. They were to bear it patiently if any official or non-official European met them and abused or even flogged them. They were to allow themselves to be arrested if the police offered to arrest them.

Time' can be pitiless. Time is able to convert the flame of love into a mood of restraint. A paradise of adulation can become a setting of animosity and ecstasy can change into indifference. Mutual complicity can become a balance of power and heaven can turn into hell. Eventually only a best friend remains ? ' Me, myself and I' . -Erik Pevernagie

I've unsheathed my claws too many times. I want to save lives, not destroy them.

Lionpaw glared over his shoulder at the three cats, wishing he could ignore the stupid truce and rip a piece of fur from each of them.

Moonflower's ears twitched. "Not for six moons, you won't! And only if you've learned not to eat poppy seeds by then!

Not so fast, Tigerclaw!" Spottedleaf placed her paw over Tigerclaw's sharp talon and gently moved it away. "This apprentice needs to keep as still as possible until the cut has healed. We don't want him opening his wound by jumping about trying to please you. Leave him alone.