Quotes About Restraint

I love collections of things, but always in moderation.

No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by showing that you do not listen to it with pleasure.

Een misplaatst gevoel voor goede smaak weerhield hem ervan te zeggen dat hij haar had gemist en haar zou blijven missen. Maar er waren momenten dat de goede smaak maar even de andere kant op moest kijken. 'Ik jou ook,' antwoordde Lizzie.

The first: limit the rules. The second: Use the least force necessary to enforce those rules.

He who has a sword, and knows how to use it, but keeps it sheathed shall inherit the earth.

If you can bite, you generally don't have to.

Restraining orders work best, however, with the sort of person who would never require a restraining order.

Without rules we quickly become slaves to our passions - and there's nothing freeing about that.

Here's a straightforward initial idea: rules should not be multiplied beyond necessity.

The perfect quote sprang to mind, but I resisted saying it under my breath, since Jonathan would hear. I couldn't even mouth the words, since for all I knew, he'd hear my lips moving. So I conjured up a vision of the Tin Man and let him say it for me in my head. "Now I know I've got a heart. I can feel it breaking.

Waiting is hard, but sometimes there's nothing else we can do.

Assim é o mundo, povoado de céticos e negativistas, amarrados, como bois na canga, à ordem e à lei, aos procedimentos habituais, ao papel selado.

Por fora, o recato em pessoa. Calma de semblante e retirada, parecendo a própria mansidão; por dentro, ardendo de desejo, "em fogo consumida", como Oxum, seu orixá. Ah!, Dionísia, se soubesses como o fogo de Oxum queima as noites de tua comadre e seu corpo moreno, seu pelado ventre, lhe mandarias dar um banho de folhas ou um marido.

Mas o que é uma donzela, tola e ignorante em seu desejo, se comparada a uma viúva, cujo anseio é feito de conhecimento e de ausência, de contenção e de penúria, de fome e de jejum, é lúcido e insolente?

Goya's savage verve, his harsh, brutal genius, captivated Des Esseintes. On the other hand, the universal admiration his works had won rather put him off, and for years he had refrained from framing them, for fear that if he hung them up, the first idiot who saw them would might feel obliged to dishonour them with a few inanities and go into stereotyped ecstasies over them.

Als er den letzten Schluck getrunken hatte, ging er in sein Kabinett zurück und ließ sich von dem Diener die Schildkröte nachtragen, die sich partout nicht bewegen wollte

One must bow to nature's law if one is neither impotent nor a saint.

Whether zeal or moderation be the point we aim at, let us keep the fire out of the one, and the frost out of the other.

He struggled with himself, too. I saw it -- I heard it. I saw the inconceivable mystery of a soul that knew no restraint, no faith, and no fear, yet struggling blindly with itself.

The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must be sacrificed without end, without restraint, without respite until the consummation of the world, the extinction of evil, the death of death.

I watched the tears run down her cheeks and start to drip from the end of her chin. One part of me wanted to put my arms round her but I daren't. Do that and I'd never be able to let her go.

Some models of self-control are able to achieve their serenity easily because the soul fires never burn brightly to begin with.

A Jewish ethical treatise warns that a man must not express his anger by pounding on a book or by hitting people with it. The angry teacher must not hit the bad student with a book, nor should the student use a book to ward off blows.

Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.