Quotes About Restraint

If you learn a martial art, you learn to be dangerous, but simultaneously, you learn to control it.

My grandmother, who was simultaneously a woman of manners and verve, fended off marriage proposals until she was 30 because she was having too much fun to settle down.

A policeman must know everything - and not tell. He must know where all the sin is and not partake.

I won't write my autobiography because I never had an affair with Frank Sinatra, and if I had had, I wouldn't tell anyone.

In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race.

An opera singer is like an athlete before a match. An athlete cannot overdo anything. In order to perform at the highest possible level, you need to refrain from activities so as to be able to express this power.

If you feel like singing along, don't.

I would not get to know every single thing that happens in Sports Direct.

In jail I was just like everybody else, I was sitting there praying, feeling caged.

I always go back to how people behave. If you watch how people actually behave in a situation, it's very simple and honest and contained. You don't need to use as much expression, as much feeling. Some characters will boil over, and that's another thing, but a lot of times I think you can just do very, very little.

I had a different perception of what a relationship or love is like. I was all giddy-headed and fairytale about it in my head, but it's so different. There's a lot of restraint that you've got to have, compromising in certain situations - and you've got to have a lot of respect.

Some of the best times in my life happened under the influence of drugs... I'd still be doing it if I could make good judgement calls. I'd still be doing it if I didn't blow up to the size of an aircraft hangar, because it was a great time.

I always think that the ability to fight and defend oneself is a skill that every man should have but endeavour never to use, you know?

It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.

When you are skinning your customers, you should leave some skin on to heal, so that you can skin them again.

I will not fall in love with you," she said. "I can't let myself. I won't." "That's all right. I'll love you enough for the both of us.

The songwriter mustn't fall in love with his own song. If it doesn't belong, he can't push it into a show. Let him save it; maybe it'll fit in another show.

No love is foule, nor prison fair.

Had you restrained your love, you would be free of sorrow. The greater the love, while one possesses it, the greater the sorrow when one is deprived of it.

Not stepping over the bounds of modesty.

O love, be moderate, allay thy ecstasy, In measure rain thy joy, scant this excess!

It is difficult to preach, this morality of mediocrity! It may never admit what it is and what it wants! It must speak about restraint and worth and duty and love of one's neighbor.

She felt as if she were brimming, always producing and hoarding more love inside her. But there was no release.

I grew up before there were strict leash laws