Quotes About Restraint

When you feel strain, keep your mouth shut if you can.

You'd better go now; I don't think Miggs could manage again so soon, even if he is crazy, do you?

T)here was a story they used to tell at home about a girl whose punishment was that every time she opened her mouth, snakes and toads came out, snakes and toads with every word. The book didn't say what she did about it, but I've always assumed she probably ended up keeping her mouth shut.

Did we not, at the very moment of birth, stumble into agonizing captivity? A prison, a prison with bars and chains everywhere!

Coercion from outside, strong temperamental inclinations and passions within ourselves, do nothing to effect the essence of our freedom. They simply define its action by imposing certain limits on it.

Her grief is still too young to behave itself, so she never lets it out.

the only way clear of the cool/crazy flipflop was obviously slow, frustrating and hard work. Love with your mouth shut, help without breaking your ass or publicizing it: keep cool, but care. He might have known, if he'd used any common sense. It didn't come as a revelation, only something he'd as soon not've admitted.

She faced that possibility as she might the toy street from a high balcony, roller-coaster ride, feeding-time among the beasts in a zoo—any death-wish that can be consummated by some minimum gesture.

per sfuggire a quel folle alternarsi di flip/flop, hip/hop, non c'era altro modo che lavorare duro, anche se voleva dire procedere in modo lento e frustrante. Amare tenendo la bocca chiusa, aiutare senza rompersi il culo o renderlo noto a tutti: essere calmi, ma partecipi.

I have a rule that has served me well in life. When in doubt, do nothing. If you're not sure, don't buy it, don't comment, don't commit. Sit tight. Deviation from this maxim has usually caused me regret.

I have a rule that has served me well in life. When in doubt, do nothing. If you're not sure, don't buy it, don't comment, don't commit.

Sit tight. Deviation from this maxim has usually caused me regret.

You leave that lid screwed on tight, we're gonna die sooner'r later. Best just to set us loose while we still know how to fly.

The only way to keep something pure is to keep it to yourself.

It's hard to put a foot in a shut mouth.

Notice the Scripture says, "Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing." If they "rail" on you, don't rail on them, "but contrariwise blessing." Blessing, blessing, blessing, blessing.

I wish I could control myself! When I get in a tight place, it seems all I can think of is cutting their heads off!

You can't fix things, can you, Louis said. We always want to. But we can't.

Law does not put the least restraint Upon our freedom, but maintain?st; Or, if it does, ?tis for our good, To give us freer latitude: For wholesome laws preserve us free, By stinting of our liberty.

When I was a girl my mother said I chattered like a magpie even in my sleep, as if I knew one day the words would all be stopped, wine corked up in a bottle.

But we had better stop right here

AvÅ¡ak jako tv?r?í ?lovÄ›k je jedinec vystaven tomu, že není svobodný, nýbrž jej poutá a pudí démon.

We push one another into vice. And how can a man be recalled to salvation, when he has none to restrain him, and all mankind to urge him on? …

up' is from when a bird has eaten too much of his kill and doesn't want to hunt or do anything for a while," she said. "And 'under my thumb' and 'wrapped around his little finger' are from holding a falcon tight to your fist by its jesses so it can't fly. Those terms were in Shakespeare's plays and until then they weren't common usage.