Quotes About Restraint

The bravado, the resentment in the writing excites them, but they cannot allow themselves to feel it.

I do possess a certain rigidity, a certain prudishness. I hate it in myself.

In my experience, people's sorrows are always in danger of bursting out; it's only through careful inattention that they can be contained.

So I learned to hold my tongue and to turn my features into an indifferent mask so that no one could ever read my thoughts.

Let me go!" I snarl at him, trying to wrest my arm from his grasp. "I can't," he says.

Remember that even in war there is a time for restraint. A time to hold back your sword.

I take a few breaths to calm myself, step back, and lift Buttercup by the scruff of the neck. "I should've drowned you when I had the chance." His ears flatten and he raises a paw. I hiss before he gets a chance, which seems to annoy him a little, since he considers hissing his own personal sound of contempt.

So the moment he walks in the door I snap, "I swear if you cry, I'll kill you here and now." Cinna just smiles. "Had a damp morning?" "You could wring me out," I reply.

Slowly, as I would with a wounded animal, my hand stretches out and brushes a wave of hair from his forehead. He freezes at my touch, but doesn't recoil. So I continue to gently smooth back his hair. It's the first time I have voluntarily touched him since the last arena.

Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains." — Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract, 1762

Hope is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective. A lot of hope is dangerous. A spark is fine, as long as it's contained. So, contain it.

So I learned to hold my tongue and to turn my features into an indifferent mask so that no one could ever read my thoughts. Do

tengo mucha experiencia en no demostrar mis sentimientos, y eso es lo que hago.

To the everlasting credit of the people of District 12, not one person claps.

law of District Thirteen. As would her own. Thank you." In other words, I step out of line and we're all dead.

She tried to keep busy, but each afternoon she was drawn into the courtyard or up into the pavilion, where she sat as still as a pool of water. It was as if she feared she'd fly away into a million pieces if she moved.

That was the thing about being a captive bird...You learned to adapt, and before you knew it your captivity seemed normal. If you were free once again, you would become confused and miss the security of your captivity.

My body tingles for his quiet voice in my ear. If things were different, if I were different, I'd stay with him. Even leave with him. But I can't.

There's got to be something you can do with them, or they will literally drive you crazy. Women out of control are a curse—and if you don't put a stop to it, you'll regret it bitterly later on.

It is the greatest manifestation of power to be calm. It is easy to be active. Let the reins go, and the horses will run away with you. Anyone can do that, but he who can stop the plunging horses is the strong man.

The ideal man is he who, in the midst of the greatest silence and solitude, finds the intensest activity, and in the midst of the intensest activity finds the silence and solitude of the desert. He has learnt the secret of restraint, he has controlled himself.

If a person who can [give a blow] forbears, there is merit in that.

The biggest challenge is always the governments - they try to stop all good things. I try to stay away from them as much as I can, as I know if someone can destroy something good, it's the government.

Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time.