Quotes About Restraint

When I was at school I used to scream in trains, in those concertina things between the carriages. I used to try to be so good that sometimes I couldn't bear it any more.

I was an observer. I liked to listen rather than openly express myself. This trait is something that I've retained over the years.

You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look.

We know that no algorithm can solve global poverty; no pill can cure a chronic illness; no box of chocolates can mend a broken relationship; no educational DVD can transform a child into a baby Einstein; no drone strike can end a terrorist conflict. Sadly, there is no such thing as 'One Tip to a Flat Stomach.'

Are you crazy? The last thing you want to do is make a scene." "Well, I'm gonna make a movie if you don't show me some respect.

Jesus commanded us to love you, so I can't go ahead and kill you, even though right now my fallen flesh wants . . . ." Josh let the sentence die unended. He walked over to Momin, picked up the duct tape and wrapped it around his head several times, securely covering his mouth. When he was done, he stood up and nodded his head in satisfaction. "There! You're easier to love when you're not talking.

One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.

the mere description of multiple sexual acts does little or nothing for the reader. A single act, kept at bay, warmed to, stretched out, can have a marked erotic effect.

As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave.

No bird in a cage ever speaks. What is there to say? The sky is everywhere, churning above its head, blue and endless, calling out to it. But the caged bird can't answer anything except 'I cannot'.

A tethered thing is a dead thing...

If you only have one world, one life, then however brilliant it is most of the time, you have nowhere to run when you need to escape from it for a while.

One ought not to use words carelessly, or even spontaneously. Once they are launched, they cannot be called back.

Although I am able to walk about freely, I am a prisoner in my skin.

You're just an object locked up in the house.

Don't speak unless you can improve on the silence.

Discretion is knowing how to hide that which we cannot remedy.

The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains.

To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

So if you can manage it, you shouldn't touch your partner, except for the sake of having children.

Nevertheless, they who restrain baser lusts, not by the power of the Holy Spirit obtained by the faith of piety, or by the love of intelligible beauty, but by desire of human praise, or, at all events, restrain them better by the love of such praise, are not indeed yet holy, but only less base.

But I am unwilling to utter all that may occur to those who think of it, yet cannot be spoken without irreverence.