Quotes About Restraint

You drew a bird that was here, a kind of sweet chanticleer. But with a terrible fear that the cage couldn't tame

Sometimes in life, even saints have to "hiss" to be kind. But no one needs to bite.

You understand that the defilements promise you so much but that they never actually deliver.

Any place you don't want to be, no matter how comfortable, is a prison for you.

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

When dealing in the technology, it becomes a question of whether you overuse something. I think that's worse than having something technologically available to you and not using it.

All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be, I am a dancer. But I don't think I would be on 'Dancing with the Stars ' mainly because I would be too shy.

We must stand firm between two kinds of madness: the belief that we can do anything; and the belief that we can do nothing.

It should also be noted that the first encounter may be a failure, if loveplay is not known. The man must be more careful than the woman in the act of copulation, since he does not know how to restrain himself, while the woman is always hesitant. The responsibility lies with both.

In fact Yahweh is none other than the God who says "enough." The Law he issues is meant as limitation. The Covenant he concludes symbolically seals this castration.

She was made for her lord. Nobody is asking her if she wants him. It is bitter twisting to be shut up with a person you are not liking very much. I think she is often longing for the time when she was flowers on the mountain, and it is making her cruel, as the rose is growing thorns.

I must warn you," he says. Whatever persecutions the Christians have experienced, and whether it has been Jews or pagans or heretics who have mistreated them, Christians must not avenge themselves. Cyprian places himself among them: "We should not hasten to revenge their pain with an angry speed.

The second stage in Mussar practice involves restraint. Our new awareness calls out for active steps to change the circumstances of our lives. Once we realize how rarely the moments of real silence occur in our days, we can restrain the input and the output of noise that swirls around us. We do have a choice.

I try to keep a low profile in general. Not with my art, but just as a person.

Personal liberty is not personal license.

I don't like to talk about my personal life, so I will not talk about others. I don't give advice. I give advice to only my mother, father, and brother on health.

I try to avoid talking about my personal life, but I certainly don't get angry about it - I just don't talk about it.

I don't like to talk about my personal life.

I don't like talking about myself. I don't like talking about my personal life.

My past business dealings, my personal life, who I'm dating, the details of my divorce, other business matters that I've had - all that should be completely off-limits.

I keep my personal life personal. I don't talk about it.

I'm really not comfortable talking about my personal life.

I never go public with my personal life.

I don't like to discuss my personal life in public.