Quotes About Restraint

What we didn't need to know, we didn't need to ask. Some people just don't quite get the gist of that. You can have plenty of conversations with people, meaningful conversations without getting to personal.

I need all my strength to stop myself from reaching out and slapping him across the face every time he smiles at me.

It's fine." Brett shrugged, suppressing the urge to say something like, "The drugs are okay, but the sex is lousy." But she didn't want her suddenly nun-like sister to have a heart attack before Brett got a chance to pump her for information.

With a huge effort, Eric reined himself in. "When you smell like that," he said, "I just want to fuck you and bite you and rub myself all over you.

But in my book, it was basically bad taste to stare at someone's assets, no matter how much on display they were.

That's just not right, Sam muttered. Claude needs to keep his pants on.

if you live next door to an apex predator, you shouldn't go around poking him with a stick. Fiji

I closed my eyes, knowing that if Marlea had been in front of me at that moment, I would have been tempted to slap her across the face. I still felt like tracking her down and giving her a "Come to Jesus" moment. Jessamyn

Members of royal families are born into a world of indulgence and entitlement, and the princelings who grow up that way may never have to develop the emotional musculature that will allow them to show self-restraint.

If someone does something that makes me mad, well, chances are it'll probably make other people mad if I do it, too. I like to think, 'What's the meanest thing, the rudest thing I can say right now?' Or how can I completely discredit someone? That's just my mentality.

I have no great message to the world.

I've never messed around with any fans. I've never yelled at anybody.

Nothing good happens after midnight.

There's an element of control that comes with acting which you've just got to be really mindful of.

Sex is on the minds of most people, especially those who shouldn't be having it.

Minimal is the word I'd use to describe how I live and dress, and it's also how I sing. I'm not a big fan of overemoting.

I like to keep it bare minimum, be it make-up or accessories.

Der Mensch geht immer nur so weit, wie er glaubt, dass die Welt geht.

Earlier wars, like World Wars I and II or the Franco-Prussian War, were limited by termination, by an ending that occurred before the period of greatest potential violence, by negotiation that brought the threat of pain and privation to bear but often precluded the massive exercise of civilian violence. With nuclear weapons available, the restraint of violence cannot await the outcome of a contest of military strength; restraint, to occur at all, must occur during war itself.

Republicans throughout the twentieth century have been advocates of prudence and restraint in the conduct of foreign affairs.

Some of the most passionately erotic poets have been the most self-contained in their daily lives.

Close? ah, he is close! He can hold his tongue well. That man's dumbness is wonderful to listen to." "There's so much sense in it. Every moment of it is brimmen over wi' sound understanding.

Is it that the women are to blame; or is it the artificial system of things, under which the normal sex-impulses are turned into devilish domestic gins and springes to noose and hold back those who want to progress?

Yes,' he said; 'and not a dishonourable one. What held me back was just that one thing — a sense of morality that perhaps, madam, you did not give me credit for.' The latter words were spoken with a mien and tone of pride.