Quotes About Restraint

Pack all of your desires away, lock them up, and throw out the key.

The boys sat in front of your house at dusk, the boys who still had parents. Sometimes they held Marlboros out the car Windows and even If they didn't, sparks fell from their hands.

Do you wear a diaphragm everywhere you go?' I want to scream, but stop myself because the idea really excites me.

And, Price adds, smiling, if another round of Bellinis comes within a twenty-foot radius of our table we are going to set the maitre d' on fire. So you know, warn him.

if another round of Bellinis comes within a twenty-foot radius of this table we are going to set the maître d' on fire.

I'm having a difficult time containing my disordered self.

I sat there silently, staring at him, and immediately ordered a third martini, one more than I usually drink.

it isn't a bad thing to remember that you have some wildness in you, that not every inch of your soul is honorable and responsible and presentable and tamped and tamed.

Chains...They bind us, whether we want them to or not. But a heart without chains would have nothing to hold it, might simply blow away.

The greatest freedom comes from the greatest strictness.'(Paul Valéry)

It's all overrated man. Sex is only great if you're not getting any.

Be flirty but not too flirty. Be confident but not aggressive. Be funny but in a low-key, quiet way. Eat cheeseburgers, but don't get fat. Be chill, but don't lose control.

I want what I'm afraid of and I'm afraid of what I want so that I'm like a storm inside that can't break loose!

Believe me, Kinson, the potensial for evil lodges deep in every man, myself included. We restrain it better, keep it buried deeper, but it lives within us.

Power corrupts, and if not watched carefully, if not kept under control, it will come to dominate the user.

Sometimes doing what you would most like to do can be the very worst thing to do. Sometimes to accomplish what you want in the end, you have to hold back in the beginning. - Zedd (Pg.161)

Be warned, child, you have the true power of the tongue. You have never seen it. It will be a terrible doing if you ever let it loose.

I notice you didn't laugh, Mr. Black!' 'No, Your Majesty. We are forbidden to laugh at the things kings say, sire, because otherwise we would be at it all day.

I don't want to hurt you, Mistress Weatherwax, said Mrs Gogol. That's good, said Granny. I don't want you to hurt me either.

A lot hinges on the fact that, in most circumstances, people are not allowed to hit you with a mallet. They put up all kinds of visible and invisible signs that say, 'Do not do this' in the hope that it'll work, but if it doesn't, then they shrug, because there is, really, no real mallet at all.

I am a bundle of suppressed instincts held together with spit and coffee.

He was up against a mind that regarded truth as a reference point but certainly not as a shackle.

Our skills, you will find, could be our jailers.

People in chains had a tendency to look guilty.