Quotes About Restraint

I would rather have people say let's see more of her than she's too much.

Too much exposure is bad.

It must be a balance in everything we do, not too much of everything, keep it simple, not complicated.

When you start putting too much thought into it, the music starts getting too revealing. You don't need to know all my inner thoughts.

I want to keep everything balanced. That's why it's important not to have too much fanfare.

I actually don't like boxers who talk too much.

Every few years I'll party way too much to remind myself what an idiot I am.

I believe that if a person has four DUIs, I think they've had enough bites at the apple, and I think that when you go beyond that, I think that's a little bit too much.

My offbeat choices definitely don't get me too much money because they are made in a very restrained budget. We do it because we love cinema, because we are passionate about the content and new ways of storytelling.

If you look at it, the corset is a very beautiful item, but when I put one on, I realized how little you could actually move. And I'm a very physical person: I talk with my hands. And I felt how the clothes took that away from me. And that was the idea, I think. It was a way of limiting women.

It's one of the most basic laws of human nature, isn't it? The more we are denied something, the more we want it. The more silence given to this or that topic, the more power.

I don't want to be known as the guy who always takes his shirt off... I've done a lot of photo shoots lately for the press coming up with 'Immortals' and 'Breaking Dawn,' and every photographer wants to get the topless shot. We've really had to be choosy and not do that for every magazine. I've actually been trying to keep my clothes on more.

Airports and 'leg room' on planes are a form of medieval torture.

Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.

To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

I'm not interested in promoting myself or revealing to total strangers anything about me. That's not my job.

A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.

I don't know that I could play a complete and total mess. After awhile, I think I would be like, 'No, none of that!'

If you have total freedom to design, you won't get anything interesting. So I give myself restraints in order to kind of push myself through, to create something new. It's the torture that I give myself, the pain and the struggle that I go through.

There is a distinction between total control and enjoying total freedom.

but creatures so long kennelled and confined find freedom and release very problematic attainments

He is most powerful who has power over himself

He who has great power should use it lightly.

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us that injury that provokes it.