Quotes About Restraint

Seeing Q'orveh had somehow choked the urge for intimacy, with anyone, from my body.

Othman sensed that, had he wanted to, he could have had Owen now, but it was not the time. The kiss was enough: deep, pervading, the first offering of the greatest passion.

Shem dozed beside Daniel on the floor of the jeep. Daniel stared at his sleeping face, fighting an urge to reach out and touch it. Not yet. The time wasn't right.

There was a purity to the performance, a stylish reserve, which provoked only a feeling of sadness within me.

He'd been gentle with the Winter twins, remaining only a spectator on their love-making, even though his body had ached to plunder and possess.

He wanted to curl his arms around Shem's body, to hold him close, but something prevented him.

I know how to handle his type, how to wield the whip to keep the jaws at bay.

For it wasn't the secret--the secret that wasn't a secret anyway--that led to austerity in our lives. It was the austerity that led to the secret. And what I had been marked by, probably most of all, was the austerity. It had made secrets in my life too. Or silences, anyway, that became secrets. That became lies.

Sometimes the longer you are inside a prison, the harder it is to fathom what is possible beyond its walls.

You really ought to try reining in those hormones of yours. It's a radical concept for you, I'm sure, but just as a change of pace.

Remember that always dressing in understated good taste is the same as playing dead.

So much of what they do, with Mr. Kingsley, is restraint in the name of release. It seems they have to throttle their emotions to have complete access to them. Access to one's emotions = presence in the moment. Acting = responding with authentic emotion under made-up circumstances.

I like getting blotto at parties but I also like being sober and I hate the hangover.

Girls like me more sober.

You can't legislate sobriety.

I've learned over time that human beings tend to want to do more than they have the courage to do or that the social contract will allow them to do.

People are soft. The whole world is. That's why you have to be careful what you say, careful what you post, careful what you wear.

I probably should be a little more cautious with how I speak, and I think my delivery needs to be a little softer.

Just because you know umpteen billion scales, it doesn't mean you have to use them all in a solo.

I'm into the whole song-as-a-piece-of-music thing: if it literally doesn't call for it, if it already has enough stuff going on, then it's okay not to play a solo.

We like to think we can solve everything, but we can't always.

I've solved my phone addiction by deleting all the apps I was addicted to - email, browser - and getting my wife to add parental controls, to limit access even further.

I regret the times I've been mean to people... It's fine to pick on people who can defend themselves and deserve it. Some people don't deserve to be picked on who I picked on, so I don't do it anymore.

Only when a man will not do some things is he capable of doing great things.