Quotes About Restraint

Nothing wrong with whips and needles, in moderation.

He asked you to shoot at people who weren't shooting back," growled Vimes, striding forward, "That makes him insane, wouldn't you say?" "They are throwing stones, Sarge," said Colon. "So? Stay out of range. They'll get tired before we do.

There was a definite feel about Adora Belle Dearheart that a lid was only barely holding down an entire womanful of anger.

Tortoise steps, slow steps, four steps like a tank with a tail dragging in the sand. Tortoise steps, land based, land locked, dusty like the desert tortoise herself, fenced in, a prisoner on her own reservation -- teaching us the slow art of revolutionary patience.

Restraint is the steel partition between a rational mind and a violent one.

Only by the shuddering of the bed did Toby realize the girl was sobbing. Molly herself made no sound; it was as though her grief was trapped in a jar, her cries inaudible to anyone but her.

The wise man, by vigor, mindfulness, restraint, and self-control, creates for himself an island which no flood can submerge.

Those who practice restraint in body, word, and mind are surely in control of themselves.

Curb your speech, restrain your mind, commit no evil deed.

He paused, wishing to embrace her, but feeling for the moment that he should not. Then, reaching into a waistcoat pocket, he took from it a thin gold locket, the size of a silver dollar, which he opened and handed to her. One interior face of it was lined with a photograph of Berenice as a girl of twelve, thin, delicate, supercilious, self-contained, distant, as she was to this hour.

He would not wear the social shackles if it were possible to satisfy the needs of his heart and nature and still remain free and unfettered.

The wise do not consider the chains and shackles of jail to be the toughest restraints. The chains of attachment are the strongest of the ties that bind.

I don't go to journalists' houses and start dishing about anything private.

I'm an introvert and phlegmatic, so I don't show my joy.

Conservatives who care about nominations of judges who practice judicial restraint are, constitutionally, restrained people themselves.

I've learned that the Court will continue to change the meaning of the Constitution. Although all of the Justices have expressed the importance of judicial restraint, the Court inevitably makes new law every time it interprets the Constitution.

It is true that there have been excesses of judicial activism.

If judicial review means anything, it is that judicial restraint does not allow everything.

Our runaway judiciary is badly in need of restraint by Congress.

I'm a natural golden retriever at heart. I'm fine with that now, but there was a time when I tried to keep myself from jumping up on people. I had to make myself sit.

Just because you can afford it doesn't mean you should buy it.

We should not use the heavy hand of government more than it is justified.

I've always giggled like a 13-year-old girl at a Justin Bieber meet and greet. There's nothing I can do about it but I've never not been able to stop.

When I was a kid, I'd always wanted to take karate, but my parents wouldn't let me because I did a lot of other things, including ballet.