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Quotes About Restraint

What are you thinking of?" he would cry. "You know already that you should not grieve over bad shots; learn now not to rejoice over the good ones. You must free yourself from the buffetings of pleasure and pain, and learn to rise above them in easy equanimity, to rejoice as though not you but another had shot well. This, too, you must practise unceasingly – you cannot conceive how important it is.
~ Eugen Herrigel
Per me l'ago della bilancia sei sempre tu. M'hanno chiesto chi sei. Se lo sapessi lo direi a gran voce. E sarei chiuso tra quelle sbarre donde non s'esce più.
~ Eugenio Montale
I've become immune to desire; I snip the danger of wanting in the bud.
~ Eva Hoffman
Just tell him to keep his hands to himself and his python in his pants.
~ Evangeline Anderson
When 'Raazi' released, I think I was ready to embrace complex roles and some challenging characters with responsibility and restraint.
~ Jaideep Ahlawat
I love New York. But how much should it cost to call New York home? Decades of out-of-control budgets, spending hikes, and relentless borrowing have made New York simply too expensive.
~ Tom Golisano
That's what I was trying to do: be a reliable guy, dependable guy you know wasn't going to make a lot of mistakes. Maybe not high-ceiling, high-reward, but low-risk.
~ Shaun Livingston
If I have a look around at the moment I feel great relief because finally others are entering the limelight. Men like Robert Pattinson must now play the Adonis. For me it was always a restraint, a restriction.
~ Jude Law
I'm particularly proud of my reluctance to share my dreams with anyone.
~ Todd Barry
There are things I've done in the past I'm not proud of - and I could talk about them if I wanted to - but I don't reveal my secrets... I prefer certain things to remain personal; there have to be boundaries. And I don't think you need a scandal to have an interesting story.
~ Faith Hill
After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
~ Barbara Deming
My writing is remarkably non-confessional; you actually learn very little about me.
~ Michael Pollan
How you communicate while criticising a film is important. Don't pass any hurtful remarks.
~ Rajinikanth
I can only repeat, I would never compare myself to Gerd Muller.
~ Miroslav Klose
I don't jump on to singing every song of mine because I feel that will make my music repetitive.
~ Amaal Mallik
We're a new show. We can't afford instant replay.
~ Emeril Lagasse
Repression is fantastic.
~ Courteney Cox
300 was the biggest hurdle. They tried to hold us against our will.
~ Offset
And some people, you've got to lock up. If you don't, they're going to hurt you.
~ Judge Mills Lane
I think people should have the legal right to hurt themselves without fearing that they're going to get locked up for doing so. But on a personal level, if someone I loved was hurting himself or herself in front of me, I would, of course, try to restrain them.
~ Chester Brown
I am not looking or thinking that every move of mine will generate mass hysteria.
~ Varun Dhawan
It doesn't matter how adventurous you want to be, you've still got to contain your identity.
~ Alex Kapranos
I'm not allowed to be as liberal as I would like to be, you know? I'd do a lot more damage if I could!
~ CeeLo Green
For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.
~ Emil Cioran