Quotes About Restraint

I think I have already told you that there are certain things which it is not necessary to discuss, and this is one of them.

A pro? v?bec se chovat urážlivÄ› k nÄ›komu, na kom jsme úplnÄ› závislí? To by nebylo v?bec hrdinství, nýbrž jen nerozvážná smÄ›lost.

Cât de plin? de pl?ceri ar fi viaÈ›a, dac? am putea fi siguri de alÈ›ii c? vom p?stra t?cerea. Ceea ce È›ine în frâu pe femei adesea, foarte adesea, aproape întotdeauna, e frica de a nu se descoperi secretul.

spectacolul este visul urat al societatii moderne incatusate, care nu e, in cele din urma, decat expresia dorintei sale de a dormi. spectacolul e paznicul acestui somn.

Free of all responsibility or restraint, in the sheer obliviousness of dreams, he had lived like a happy pagan; and now he must go back to the drear existence of a mediaeval monk, beneath the prompting of an obscure sense of duty.

Between the Great Depression and the 1970s, private business was viewed with suspicion even in most capitalist economies. Businesses were, so the story goes, seen as anti-social agents whose profit-seeking needed to be restrained for other, supposedly loftier, goals, such as justice, social harmony, protection of the weak and even national glory.

The free market doesn't exist. Every market has some rules and boundaries that restrict the freedom of choice. A market looks free only because we so unconditionally accept its underlying restrictions that we fail to see them. How 'free' a market is cannot be objectively defined. It is a political definition.

Almost certainly I will not tell her my intentions this evening or tonight. I will put it off. Why? Because words are actions and they make things happen. Once they are out you cannot put them back.

My guess is that she is uncomfortable in such an intransigent world but is unable to live accordingly to her own desire.

Doesn't civilisation mean keeping your temper when there is no reason for restraint?

NIkad se nisam zamajavao nacelima vernosti ili okovima tradicionalnog. Cestitost je patolosko nasilje a dobrota prepreka.

The language of the mob was only the language of public opinion cleansed of hypocrisy and restraint.

When every one is dead the Great Game is finished. Not before"; and the only reason his prophecy did not come true was the constitutional restraint of the nation-state, while today our only hope that it will not come true in the future is based on the constitutional restraints of the American republic plus the technological restraints of the nuclear age.

He didn't believe in karma, but then again there was no reason to poke karma in the ribs.

Kat held back the sigh but allowed herself the eye roll.

I don't think anybody should ever touch anybody in anger, ever.

If you don't love it, don't touch it.

I never stood in a public house bar and alcoholic drink never touched my lips.

Whenever the hero and heroines met, they couldn't go beyond a point. They would just hold hands and consummation or kissing would be two flowers meeting or a bumblebee hovering over a flower. In 'Kaagaz Ke Phool,' even though their love was strong, the couple never touched.

I'm not a heavy drinker, I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop.

We're kind of coached to stay away from touchy subjects just because of the arena that we're in.

It's tough at times to not play.

Sometimes you have to make tough decisions to hold the line on spending.

I am not going to write 'Fifty Shades of Royal Purple.' Well I could, but I would be put in a beautifully decorated - that having been my profession before - room in the Tower.