Quotes About Restraint

For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.

Der Mensch atmet leichter, wenn er das Maul hält.

One has to multiply thoughts to the point where there aren't enough policemen to control them.

Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.

An exercise in power should never be merely and indulgence.

For the more a man restricts himself the closer he is, conversely, to infinity.

For tradition also and always means inhibition.

To guard oneself from presumption.

For the more a man limits himself, the more he is close to the infinite.

I had sworn to myself – an oath which I still kept in 1940 – never to write a single word that affirmed war or disparaged another nation.

Bir insan? haftalarca, hatta aylarca ve durmamacas?na korkmaya zorlayan ve güvensizlikle onun maneviyat?n? bozan, arzular?n? uyuÅŸturan biri, ba???lanamaz. Ä°nsanlar, insanlar?n bir k?sm?, ya da içlerinden bir grup, tek bir kiÅŸinin bask?c?l???na uzun süre katlanamaz, ondan uzun süre nefret etmeden. Bu kin, dizginlenmiÅŸlerin kini, bütün çevrelerde alttan alta kaynar.

You don't run amok for long with impunity, you're bound to be struck down in the end...

A committee, of course, exists for the purpose of damping enthusiasms.

Restraint offers a space between intention and action and the opportunity to protect others from actions or reactions that should exist only in your imagination

An overdose of praise is like 10 lumps of sugar in coffee; only a very few people can swallow it.

You are the untold story. You are the impassioned truth wanting to scream its existence, to be forever trapped by a strong hand clapped firmly over the mouth of my soul.

Don't ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.

Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.

The true master lives in truth, in goodness and restraint, non-violence, moderation, and purity.

Not everything that's true needs to be said.

I have never killed anybody, it is true, but it is because I lacked the courage or the time, not because I lacked the desire

It is not a lie to keep the truth to oneself.

I didn't tell him. And I never told her the whole truth. What would it matter? There was nothing she could do; nothing anyone can do or will do.

You don't have to tell everything you know, but let what you do say be the truth as you understand it.