Quotes About Restraint

one's rules of propriety make one thirst for the improper.

and each time she returned she told the maid to come with her, and the maid said no, for she had a sense of the fragility of things, and she felt she was a small plant in a small patch of soil held between the rocks of a dry and windy place

E così, qualunque fosse la ragione, quella volta la moderazione ebbe la meglio, e l'audacia, perché ci vuole coraggio a non attaccare quando si ha paura

From the soft mouth of the woman who gave her life, my mother received the words that would keep her, still and unmoving, underneath the Old Man. The words swam with her in the dark and kept her from reaching up with a knife and cutting his neck like that of a chicken. Her mother told her to swallow her anger, and she gulped it down until her belly became distended with it. Worse, her mother knew that it would.

There is a time for everything; and all people, but more especially women, should be constantly careful to watch circumstances, and not to air their accomplishments at a time when nobody cares for them. They should practise a sparing economy in displaying their learning and eloquence, and should even, if circumstances require, plead ignorance on subjects with which they are familiar.

Her lips are slightly parted: she, whose lips are usually pressed together with the daily disapprovals of the accountants' office where she has worked continually, except for the months of illness, since she was 18, that is to say, for 16 years and some months. Her lips, when she does not speak or eat, are normally pressed together like the ruled line of a balance sheet, marked straight with her old-fashioned lipstick, a final and judjing mouth, a precision instrument.

even grief had its limits

INTEMPERANCE.

Intemperance. The most damaging forms of intemperance are connected with eating, strong drink, and sexual activities. Overindulgence in any of these is fatal to success.

Look out how you use proud words. When you let proud words go, it is not easy to call them back. They wear long boots, hard boots; they walk off proud; they can't hear you calling - Look out how you use proud words.

Contrary to what you believe, the earth does not revolve around the desires of your crotch.

A wise man is one who doesn't stir up volcanoes, revolutions, or pregnant females.

You're only free up to the point where you ignore the truth.

No tenía sueño, ni ganas de tentarlo.

Michele didn't think she was allowed to cry on center stage—or scream which she thought about as Ormond handed her the ugly head.

You mean I can't chain him to the bumper of my truck and drag him through the city?

we are safely contained within a small

Doctor Copeland belt old evil anger in him. The words rose inchoately to his throat and he could not speak them. They would listen to the old man. Yet to word the reason they will not attend.

The world that jibes your tenderness Jails your lust.

It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see

transcendence, if it meant anything at all, was the accommodation to limits: a finding of freedom within them, not a breaking of them.

Maybe he should have kept quiet about if he knew they couldn't stand it. Is that what you do?

Not even the Superintendent could play about with gravity.

One must not speak of such things. One is still scarred from that experience.