Quotes About Restraint

We'd be doing parkour on my high school roof; we'd get in trouble. But I was never a reckless kid.

Self-control is true power.

I truly believe that people like myself, who are in a position of entertainers in the limelight, should keep their mouth shut on politics.

You don't want to see me dance. That's not a pretty thing. Trust me.

I don't want to hear again from the attorney general or anyone on this floor that this government has shown it can be trusted to use the power we give it with restraint and care.

All truth is not to be told at all times.

The truth is I was nicely brought up and taught not to show my rage even though it was building up inside.

The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit.

Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.

People want to hear the dirt. But this is not really anything I want to talk about.

One cannot scold or complain at every word. Learn to endure patiently, or else, as I live and breathe, you shall learn it whether you want or not.

I probably not as likely to say what's on my mind, and I think most people aren't. It's not something I would want to always be doing. So that's why I'm not a politician.

I am gagged and imprisoned. I can't even speak. I want to kick a football in a park with my son. Ordinary, banal life: my impossible dream.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have all one wants.

I just feel like, if I drink, I want to drink a case of beer and not two beers. Two beers doesn't do anything for me.

How boring these emotions are that we're caught in and can't get free of, no matter how much we want to.

It's important to hold something back, though, because quite frankly my personal life is pretty dull and I don't want to bore people with it.

There's a lot of good things about England, but I don't want to tell you too many of them.

You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.

I've just become more conscious about how much I do drink and how often I want to have a drink and things like that. I think being conscious of it will help me to control the urges.

I like to play fast. I get excited, and I have to sort of control myself, restrain myself. But when the rhythm section gets cooking, I want to explode.

Everyone has expectations. You just don't want to have them dashed, so you're quiet about them.

In my life, I don't need to have my face plastered everywhere. It's not really something I want.

And you pretend it doesn't bother you, When you just want to explode.