Quotes About Restraint

There was a real sweetness to that man: a special sort of gentleness that you see sometimes in people who've been hurt bad but don't want revenge. [Bessie about James]

One can't mount a stripper pole wearing a metal diving suit.

How many things are we upon the brink of discovering if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries

If our impulses were confined to hunger, thirst, and desire we might nearly be free

I could have torn him limb from limb, as the lion rends the antelope. But my heart sank within me as with bitter sickness, and I refrained. I

happy are women that can weep, and in a passionate caress disburthen the oppression of their feelings; shame and habitual restraint hold back a man.

how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge, and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow.

at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow.

All my speculations and hopes are as nothing; and, like the archangel who aspired to omnipotence, I am chained in an eternal hell.

cal que els que sobreviuen [a un mort] refrenin l'augment de l'afliccio que una immoderada demostració de pena podria dur (...)

Sometimes, it's better not to know.

when people talked about feelings and touching and all of the stuff she thought was meant to be kept carefully bottled inside her own personal apothecary.

He had to choke the knowledge. He had to kill the vision. He had to obey and draw the lines as instructed.

Lolita's image is forever associated in the minds of her readers with that of her jailer. Lolita on her own has no meaning; she can only come to life through her prison bars.

I was tempted to exit my perch, make my way down the aisle, and smack the guy in the head.

You could talk stuff to rattle an opponent, but that you should shut the hell up if you couldn't back it up.

We fell silent, and I watched him out of the corner of my eye. I realized that I had never heard him talk about what he was feeling. I had never seen him really angry or sad. He seemed to inhabit a world of hard surfaces and well-defined thoughts.

I think we're people that needed boundaries.

The beautiful bride wanted to stick a sock in the judge's mouth. Why didn't people just leave newlyweds alone?

To be held behind walls, however comfortable the surroundings, is a torment for someone who wants to leave. It is better than a dungeon, of course, but you are not your own master.

restraint equals indulgence

We seem to be built with a faulty gauge for moderation.

The better part of friendship might be holding one's tongue over the prospect of self-made wreckage.

Because mankind can circumvent evolutionary law, it is incumbent upon him, say evolutionary biologists, to develop another law to abide by if he wishes to survive, to not outstrip his food base. He must learn restraint.