Quotes About Restraint

We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom

She had inhibited her sympathy, one genuine sympathetic impulse would have ruined her.

Moreover, and of course, she loved him; but in Sefton's stern code her love had always been chained up, and howled fruitlessly, as indeed it did now.

Mary thought suddenly, this is an abomination, sitting here and having this conventional conversation when I feel so desperate and deprived and torn inside. She thought, is there nothing I can do about it?

It wasn't our bad habits which really scared us; we got too used to them, they only worried others. It was the odd, unpredictable, brutal impulse you fought to restrain, the one that the rest never even saw and hopefully never would.

The simplest things that need self-restraint are the most difficult to replicate.

Now tell me, where was the need for violence?

Imagine that. Terrible, terrible, the way we have all bent to the yoke; the affection we have for the harness about us.

Se você tivesse nascido numa cela e crescido num corredor, trabalhando num cubículo, com férias numa varanda repleta de gente, ao sair para o ar livre, sem nada além do céu sobre si, talvez lhe desse um ataque de nervos.

hay ciertas cosas que la Humanidad no está destinada a conocer»

Akl? ba??nda insan, haddini bilen insand?r

Dar eu ce gândesc? - C? È™i dac? pot citi ce e-n mintea omului nu-nseamn? c? trebuie s? spun cu voce tare ceea ce v?d.

My dad didn't want me to listen to Zeppelin, I think because it reminded him of his wilder days, and now he's a retired Southern Baptist minister.

You know, as long as you do everything in moderation, you don't go overboard, you don't, you know, turn your lips into guppy lips - I mean, a little zip or a little zap, that is not a big deal.

Daily, I visualize the smart-ass troll who lives deep in my subconscious, and I pelt him with rainbows and unicorns. I fight a battle against my judgmental thoughts. And when an opportunity arises to gain acceptance or popularity at the expense of someone else, I zip it. It's not easy.

The main challenge is food. I need to zip my mouth and not give in to cravings.

I will not meddle with that which I cannot mend.

You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.

All philosophy in two words, - sustain and abstain.

We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell.

The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, refrains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

When the cat's away the mice will play.

A cat may look at a king.