Quotes About Restraint

Self-restraint, which is a choice, is all that separates armistice and war.

Be careful. Be diplomatic. Try not to blow anything up.

It's like a prison. Okay, it is a prison. There's the problem right there.

One shouldn't be too inquisitive in life Either about God's secrets or one's wife.

But yet I hadde alwey a coltes tooth.Gat-toothed I was, and that bicam me weel.

Writing has nothing to do with pretty manners, and less to do with sportsmanship or restraint [...] Every writer begins as a subversive, if in nothing more than the antisocial means by which he earns his keep. Finally, every fantasist who cannibalizes himself knows that misfortune is his friend, that grief feeds and sharpens his fancy, that hatred is as sufficient a spur to creation as love (and a world more common) and that without an instinct for lunacy he will come to nothing.

Kannst du verhindern, daß unsere Köpfe sich auf dem Boden des Korbes küssen?

If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.

I've stopped drinking, but only while I'm asleep.

Moderation in the pursuit of liberty is no virtue;

I do," he remembers the matronly lady saying. "You haven't missed much. She's such a greedy cunt." Wilson says he had a hard time keeping himself from spitting the soup out on the table. When he recovered, he said in his most courtly manner, "Baroness, I think you and I are going to have a lovely evening.

There are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us worthy evidence of the fact.

Comprehensive talkers are apt to be tiresome when we are not athirst for information; but, to be quite fair, we must admit that superior reticence is a good deal due to lack of matter. Speech is often barren, but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled nest-egg; and, when it takes to cackling, will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.

Cuddles gave him her "kicking" eye. If she wasn't tied at the nose of the boat, she would've wandered over toward the cabin and stomped on his injured foot a few times for funsies.

You're out of your league, Curran said. No shit. I really didn't handle this whole thing too well, did I? No, he said. His voice held no sympathy. I wanted to ask for a do-over. I would be more restrained the second time around. Less mouthy. Unfortunately in real life you rarely got a do-over.

her scent made him want to whine like a puppy because he had to stay away.

I dropped all the guards. All the leashes, all the chains, everything that ever restrained me through the discipline and fear of discovery, I let all of it go. No need to hide. Magic flowed through me, intoxicating, heady, seductive. It mixed with my bloodlust and I realized that's how my father must have felt when he led his armies into battle. I was raised by Roland's Warlord. I'd dropped my shackles and they would bow to me.

Angel, while diplomatic, suffered from an eloquent man's malady—faced with silence, he felt compelled to fill it, even when it was in his best interests to keep his mouth shut.

I could do this. I just had to stay cool. Zen. No punching in the face. Punching would not be Zen.

One does not simply ring Roland." Oh

Freedom (independence) from the laws of nature is no doubt a liberation from restraint, but also from the guidance of all rules.

What is a woman's greatest virtue? Patience.