Quotes About Restraint

I like visiting people in prison. I can say whatever I want to them, and they can't do anything about it.

Words aren't meant to be kept inside, you see. They are free creatures, and if locked away will unsettle the stomach.

DON'T SPOIL STORIES!

If bravery is the wind that makes us soar like kites, fear is the string that keeps us from going too far.

Progress was taking nature and putting a box around it.

You cannot keep all men confined all the time," Abraham said, "not without creating a strong prison. So instead you allow some measure of freedom for those who really, really want it. That way, they do not become rebels. If you do it right.

Well done, Spin," Cobb said over a private line. "You have the passion. Now you're showing restraint.

No corras si sólo tienes fuerzas para andar

We know almost nothing about Daniel's feeling for his parents. To read that he wept uncontrollably at his father's funeral in May 1910 is startling, not just because it is the only testimony to their attachment, but because Daniel was then well on in his forties and his usual style was so restrained.1

Never miss a good chance to shut up.

The nature of God's love for us is outrageous. Why doesn't this God of ours display some taste and discretion in dealing with us? Why doesn't He show more restraint? To be blunt about it, couldn't God arrange to have a little more dignity? Wow!

She was not taking up that subject with Ted. Not when she'd spent part of the time fighting a fantasy about hitting the sheets and the other part thinking about strangling him with them.

Earthly love and heavenly love irreconcilably oppose each other ... No mediation exists between the law of the public sphere and the willingness to be without restraint; between the two spheres there is nothing - to be sure, the positive nothing, the nothing of freedom.

It was the most important art a person could learn: self-control.

The cold grips us like handcuffs and the heat is the liberating key.

We probably will never be free from all our hostilities, and there even may be days and weeks in which our hostile feelings dominate our emotional life to such a degree that the best thing we can do is to keep distance, speak little to others and not write letters, except to ourselves.

With all these blessings, what more is necessary to make us a happy and prosperous people? Still one thing more, fellow-citizens,—a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.

There are many fine things we cannot say if we have to shout.

Real power is measured by how much you can let things be.

did not for a moment feel confined, and the walls seemed a great waste of stone and mortar.

That government is best which governs least; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe—That government is best which governs not at all; and

I heartily accept the motto, That government is best which governs least; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe—That government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.