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Quotes About Restraint

In the small amount of modeling work I've done, I'm always told that I never smile.
~ Hero Fiennes-Tiffin
I don't smoke. I don't drink. I don't do nothing, bro.
~ Lil Yachty
It's not easy. I make snap judgments, too, and I start to write people off. And then I start to remind myself of how I'm constantly asking judges not to write people off. And so then I try to resist it.
~ James Forman, Jr.
It may sound kind of brash but you really do have to treat it like just another job. It could be over tomorrow, and if you invest too much of yourself in, 'Hey I am the show and the show is me,' you'll get snapped hard.
~ Will Sasso
But Sneaky Pete was great. I didn't bug him about Gram. Not too much, anyway.
~ Evan Dando
Snowden has been very sparing about discussing his early life or his personal life.
~ Barton Gellman
A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Whether we are running our home or studying or hunting or following any other sport, we should go to the very boundaries of pleasure but take good care not to be involved beyond the point where it begins to be mingled with pain.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Es ar nodomu piejaucu n?vei nedudz r?gtuma, lai, ?emot v?r? t?s pieejam?bu, kav?tu j?s p?r?k alkat?gi un nesapr?t?gi tiekties p?c t?s.
~ Michel de Montaigne
ved sin bydende autoritet sløver og fordummer den all Platons samlede teologi og filosofi; likevel gir han ikke fra seg et kny. Overalt ellers kan man bevare en viss anstendighet; alle andre aktiviteter finner seg i sømmelighetsregler, men kjærlighetsakten kan man bare forestille seg som lastefull eller komisk. Bare prøv å finne en klok og behersket måte å bedrive den på.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Todo puede ser fácil por algunos medios, e inaccesible por otros. La ocasión y la oportunidad tienen sus privilegios, y ofrecen a menudo al pueblo aquello que rehúsan a sus reyes, La curiosidad, a menudo, se pone trabas a sí misma como también lo hacen la grandeza y la potencia.
~ Michel de Montaigne
He ought to have conceded that she was a flower not destined to open, a hothouse creation, no less beautiful, no less woth having, He should have admired her, praised her and, at the close of day, let her be.
~ Michel Faber
They both sat in silence for the rest of the journey, as if conscious of having let each other down.
~ Michel Faber
Don't cry, it distracts the dog." "I can't help it," she replied. "Then cry," he sighed. "But explain the historical context.
~ Michel Faber
Let's not go there.' 'That's what people always say about places where they already are.
~ Michel Faber
one exists only when fixed in definite relations of domination ...
~ Michel Foucault
soÌ"phrosyneÌ", el estado al que tendemos, mediante el ejercicio del autocontrol y mediante la moderación en la práctica de los placeres, está caracterizada como una libertad.
~ Michel Foucault
templanza es representada con toda regularidad entre las cualidades que pertenecen —o por lo menos deberían pertenecer— no a cualquiera, sino en forma privilegiada a aquellos que tienen rango, posición y responsabilidad en la ciudad.
~ Michel Foucault
Enfermé dans le navire, d'où on n'échappe pas, le fou est confié à la rivière aux mille bras, à la mer aux mille chemins, à cette grande incertitude extérieure à tout. Il est prisonnier au milieu de la plus libre, de la plus ouverte des routes : solidement enchaîné à l'infini carrefour. Il est le Passager par excellence, c'est-à-dire le prisonnier du Passage.
~ Michel Foucault
The guillotine takes life almost without touching the body, just as prison deprives of liberty or a fine reduces wealth.
~ Michel Foucault
He wished his tongue wasn't quite so dry and that the skin round his neck didn't feel so very tight.
~ Michelle Magorian
El guerrero tiene control no sobre otros seres humanos, sino sobre sí mismo; controla sus propias emociones. Reprimimos
~ Miguel Ruiz
The agreement is so strong that even if we understand the concept of it not being true, we feel the blame, the guilt, and the shame that occur if we go against these rules.
~ Miguel Ruiz
La gran diferencia entre un guerrero y una víctima es que ésta se reprime y el guerrero se refrena. Las víctimas se reprimen porque tienen miedo de mostrar sus emociones, de decir lo que quieren decir. Refrenarse no es lo mismo que reprimirse. Significa retener las emociones y expresarlas en el momento adecuado, ni antes ni después.
~ Miguel Ruiz