Quotes About Restraint

Sometimes the district captain swung his cane slightly; it hinted at an exuberance that knows where to stop.

I must not bite him. Moon

Maybe we should assess how well you can keep your mouth shut," Dustpelt snapped.

Thistleclaw practically had to sit on him to stop him.

The rule is, don't speak of the dead, not don't speak ill of the dead's terrible relatives.

When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out.

I felt like a kid standing in the world's greatest video arcade without any quarters, unable to do anything but walk around and watch the other kids play.

I felt like a kid standing in the world's greatest video arcade without any quarters, unable to do anything but walk around and watch the other kids play.

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

A sadness like a coqui that has been told to remain silent and I wanted Taina to sing...

As the sick man does not skip and leap around, his wishes do so all the more.

Man is born violent but is kept in check by the people around him. If he nevertheless manages to throw off his fetters, he can count on applause, for everyone recognizes himself in him. Deeply ingrained, nay, buried dreams come true. The unlimited radiates its magic even upon crime, which, not coincidentally, is the main source of entertainment in Eumeswil. I, as an anarch, not uninterested but disinterested, can understand that. Freedom has a wide range and more facets than a diamond.

Du kannst nicht zu einem Brunnenfrosch vom Ozean sprechen. GESAMT WERKE. Band 2

Nothing is more repulsive to me than the literary man who must immediately display every emotion and every experience to its best advantage and stick it on paper.

That's how you keep someone tied to you, not set them free. You say no to a man and don't give him the peace of repayment.

Mais je ne pus sourire, mes nerfs serraient fort les muscles de mon visage comme la ficelle du rôti au four. – En haut à gauche

Quand elle s'élançait soudain en courant du parasol vers la mer sans avertir personne, je ne courais pas derrière elle pour ne pas m'exposer au ridicule, mais je la suivais tout le temps de sa baignade avec la tension d'un chien à la chaîne.

L'uomo non è perfetto, d'accordo. Ma questo non è che una ragione di più, forse la ragione migliore, per non dare a nessuno i mezzi per «mettere i freni alla libertà individuale».

Il farsi mettere il freno nella speranza di essere meglio guidati non può condurre che alla schiavitù.

Hold it." Then say, "I want to hear what you have to say, and I can't when you're shouting. Can you tell us why without shouting?

One should accept things as they are and not try to lift them to impossible heights; only if you let them be will they reveal their true worth.

There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.