Quotes About Restraint

One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.

Korkudan bile olsa, insan kendinden kaçam?yor, ne o yöne ne bu yöne ç?k?? yok.

Umilirea este cel mai teribil atentat la adresa libert??ii.

I think I'm drawn to more villain-type characters, because it's so cool to get to say all the things you want to say. In Hollywood, you get to this position where you have to bite your tongue so much. You take all your experiences of not being able to say what you really want to say, and channel that through your character.

My beautiful Win. I wanted to kiss him on every last broken place, but his mother and my lawyer were there. So, instead I started to cry.

The key to happiness in life is knowing when to keep your mouth shut.

From a very early age, girls were taught to restrain themselves physically and emotionally.

Patience is the secret to good food.

We have a saying, my people. Don't kill if you can wound, don't wound if you can subdue, don't subdue if you can pacify, and don't raise your hand at all until you've first extended it".

It's frustrating for me to be unable to speak. To feel that I have so much to say, so many ways I can help, but I'm locked in a soundproof box, a game show isolation booth from which I can see out and I can hear what's going on, but they never turn on my microphone and they never let me out. It might drive a person mad. It certainly has driven many a dog mad.

No one talked because we all wanted to scream.

There's a kind of quiet angry that can lie down over a house. Maybe there are some houses, like the Daughertys', that have never know it - that house probably hasn't ever had a quiet day. But in The Dump, Angry Quiet was an old friend, and he moved in again. No one talked because we all wanted to scream.

She sort of reminded me of Lil—which I did not tell her—and which you shouldn't tell her I said either

stomachs aren't supposed

Exceed not thy actions, but limit not thy mind.

A captivated heart, a bridled tongue, a limited curiosity, and a slow reentry after prayer are necessary disciplines of simplicity.

History is full of examples of people who clamp down after they began to enjoy too much freedom. Freedom can lead to instability, anarchy, and confusion. So there can be a moral counter-revolution.

freedom is anathema to dreams nurtured in captivity.

Nothing brings joy as does a tamed, controlled, attended and restrained heart. This heart brings joy.

What makes you an adult? he said & I said it's mainly a height requirement & the willingness to keep quiet when people say stupid things. —Adult Club

After being dry for a couple a weeks, three cocktails went down quicker than a boner in a busted rubber.

Talking about one's stories is a little too much like nailing a dog to the floor -- you can get it to stay put that way but it doesn't do much for the dog.

It may be time for America to learn the forgotten rewards of sitting down and shutting up.

O, dreadful is the check -- intense the agony When the ear begins to hear and the eye begins to see; When the pulse begins to throb, the brain to think again, The soul to feel the flesh and the flesh to feel the chain.