Quotes About Restraint

I've always tried to be the person who says things no one else wants to say. I've always kept it in house, as opposed to going to the papers.

I think a lot of people are afraid of freedom. They want their lives to be controlled, to be put into a box... Why should someone put a limit on how much fun I can have, how much I can accomplish?

I'm gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we're not being controlled, we'll just do what we want.

Im not the type of person to point fingers at anybody, and I dont want anybody saying anything to me. There are situations where balls are bounced to your feet you dont say anything.

In a small space, you want to keep the bedding as simple as possible so it looks clean, calm and collected.

I want you more than I should," she heard herself say. "I have you less than I want.

Isn't that what it means to be civilized? That you can wait to get what you want?

Easy there," Zach said when I stumbled into him. "Now's probably not the time to get handsy. You might want to control yourself.

real strength is not hitting when what you most want to do is kill.

She got tired of herself. She got tired of not being able to say what she wanted or do what she wanted or even want what she wanted.

Inside many of us is a small old man who wants to get out.

It's a hard line to walk, man. Cause you know you want to make this movie, you want to make it dark and real, you want to show all this stuff but unfortunately you can't always do that.

Deep down, everybody wants to do what they want to be doing. They just feel that they can't.

You can go crazy and play solos in the right place, and that's great because it can intensify and bring an emotional lift. But the thing is you don't want to get in the way of the song.

I think we're all sort of imprisoned by - or at least bound to - the choices we make... You want to say no at the right time and you want to say yes more sparingly.

Music is 99% of my life. But I know I need a break. Besides, if you give people too much, they start to not want it. We need to restrain ourselves.

You can tell me to stop any time you want, but you won't.

Am I an ego on legs? No I am not. Do I want to be seen out there all the time saying everything? No, I don't.

No one tells me what they think because they're either intimidated by me, or they don't want to upset me.

The desire for perfect release and the real-world impossibility of perfect, whenever-you-want-it release had together produced a tension they could no longer stand.

Quiet down, we don't want to wake the Russians.

Sometimes, if you really want to try something original, you step a little too far out of bounds. I mean, there's a market force that kind of unconsciously keeps you in line a little bit.

This is the real unwritten rule: You don't want what you know you shouldn't. And I haven't just broken that rule. I have wrecked it, smashed it, and still... And still I want.

Everyone has freedom to say whatever they want to say. I think it takes a stronger person to hold their tongue as opposed to speaking out.