Quotes About Restraint

Stops at the end of the road collected Clyde Lidgards like dams collected silt.

Without compunction, pity or shame, they've built towering walls around me. Desperate, I sit and think one thing: alone here this fate confounds me. For there were many things I'd hoped to do out there. With all the construction, how was I not aware? Yet the crack and clang of hammers I never once heard. Imperceptibly they've confined me from the outside world. ("Walls")

Interesting … Still, these Huguenot gatherings must be curtailed somehow. Calvin does not rule here." "Then do it gently. Calvin does not rule here, and neither should the cardinal.

Tô me sentindo estranho hoje... - Por que? - Sei lá, hoje acordei com vontade de tudo que, com muito esforço, eu deixei de gostar... - Cigarros? - Também! - Do que mais? - Você.

A luxúria reside menos na exibição integral do que naquela breve nesga de carne mal e mal entrevista entre a luva e a manga.

Excessive knowledge is an unwieldy ill; a man with a loose tongue is indeed a child with a knife.

Don't you know that four fifths of all our troubles in this life would disappear if we would just sit down and keep still?

Acting with discipline requires you to know your true nature and, having come to know it, to bring it under control.

Every kind of power has its own boundaries, Etienne. That is you know its strength and its form.

There is something wrong with coppers' I said. 'You can't punch them in the jaw when you want to.

The handcuffs are still on me, and they're uncomfortable, to say the least. I have no idea how people willingly use these things during sex, but please continue to count me out.

Had Luther and Calvin been confined before they had begun to dogmatize, the states would have been spared many troubles.

Das Schlimme bei passionierten Reitern ist, dachte er, daß die ständige Stimulation der Geschlechtsorgane zwangsläufig die Gehirntätigkeit behindert.

and in the meantime don't jump to conclusions.

You type what you're feeling and press send before you have a chance to talk yourself out of it. And then you wait, and wait, and wait, and nothing comes back, so all those things you thought were so important to say, really, they weren't. They weren't worth saying at all.

She mock shudders the way you do when you talk about someone's misfortunes that have nothing to do with you, that don't touch you, and never will. I've never hit a woman in my life, but for one minute I want to punch her in the face, give her a taste of the pain she's so casually describing.

But then one time, you track down an email address and you're near a computer with Internet access so you don't have that nice cushion and you type what you're feeling and press send before you have a chance to talk yourself out of it. And then you wait, and wait, and wait, and nothing comes back, so all those things you thought were so important to say, really, they weren't. They weren't worth saying at all.

my life feels so small it itches, like a too-tight wool sweater

Sometimes you escape one prison only to find you've built yourself a different one

I was a timid rebel, held in a straitjacket of indecision. Each time I tried to take a step, I met mental and physical restraints.

I unwind the thin metal belt from my waist, then loop one end through the other to create an all-in-one collar and leash. 'I hope this doesn't offend you but...' I lean over, patting the air until I encounter the softness of his fur. 'We'll tell no-one of this,' he mutters as I anchor the collar to his neck, and I want to smile. 'Ever.

What are you, a child? Your cock is not a toy, so stop playing with it for one damn night.

He chokes on his one tongue.

Then he pulled back and looked at her shirt again. "Is this really true?" She nodded. "Every word of it." "Okay, then. I say you won't." "Won't do what?" He bent his head to whisper into her hair, his breath hot against her ear. " Before lunch, you won't go to bed with me." Elle reached around behind her and turned off the burner on the stove.