Quotes About Restraint

Beliefs are collars to which leashes can be attached

There's a kind of silence that just has the overwhelming feel of someone trying desperately not to break it, and that was the kind of silence I was breathing in right then.

These people have will and desire too. But in *this* world a hundred codes and schools tell them not to *exercise* it -- to *restrain* desire, until desire turns into poison. And then to tell their children that *poison* is wholesome food.

Obedient to constraint, I was compelled to submit

He waited for a time, knowing that no force could silence the crowd until it screamed out everything that had accumulated within it and quieted down by itself. (40)

I'd never recited poetry to anyone before; I've never done it since. I have a highly sensitive, built-in fuse mechanism that keeps me from opening up too far, from revealing my feelings, and reciting poetry makes me feel as though I'm talking about my feelings and standing on one leg at the same time.

When graves are covered with stones, the dead can no longer get out. But the dead can't go out anyway! What difference does it make whether they're covered with soil or stones?

She had an overwhelming desire to tell him, like the most banal of women, Don't let me go, hold me tight, make me your plaything, your slave, be strong! But they were words she could not say. The only things she said when he released her from his embrace was, 'You don't know how happy I am to be with you.' That was the most her reserved nature allowed her to express.

Zijn hele leven was hij bang haar te kwetsen. En alleen daarom onderwierp hij zich vrijwillig aan de discipline van een afstompende monogamie. Twintig jaar later blijkt opeens dat zijn bezorgdheid totaal overbodig is en dat hij tientallen vrouwen heeft gemist vanwege een misverstand!

in his whole life he had never acted as he wished to act. He considered himself the administrator of his own immortality, and that responsibility tied him down and turned him stiff and prim.

Toda la vida había tenido miedo de herirla y sólo por eso se había impuesto voluntariamente la disciplina de una monogamia idiotizante. ¡Y al cabo de 20 años de pronto comprueba que sus reparos han sido completamente inútiles y que se había privado de otras mujeres sólo por culpa de un malentendido!

And I wish that the electric current could be shut off from guitars and instead connected to chairs to which I would personally tie all guitarists.

For men love what they cannot have, and hate what they cannot control.

The important thing was that we were being polite and not saying all the things that were making us unhappy, which was the only way we knew how to love each other.

We love to overlook the boundaries which we do not wish to pass.

Watching people party is cool, but I don't love watching people get super-duper trashed and annoying. I feel protected behind my booth - away from the madness, but a part of it too.

Wine gives you liberty, love takes it away.

I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.

I love going out to clubs. Granted, I don't get hammered or do anything to embarrass myself. I'd call myself wholesome but it's not like I only drink milk.

When you are angry, don't react. Respond with consideration, kindness, and love.

J'ai toujours estimé qu'une bête sauvage n'est jamais aussi belle que quand un obstacle la sépare de nous - un obstacle bien solide, si possible.

Cuanta razón tenía Disraeli! Cuando nuestro pájaro halla abierta la jaula, no quiso volar.

Do us all a favor and toss your mouth overboard.

Forgive my brother, Camira apologized. We don't normally let him out of his cage when guests are present.