Quotes About Restraint

My sense of the family history is somewhat sketchy, because my mother kept a great deal to herself.

I wrote and recorded a song that I highly doubt I will release. The lyrics are somewhat risque. I may have to create an alter ego, and she can be the 'singer.'

I think there's a part of me that might be my alter ago, like the carefree, do-what-he-wants kind of guy, because I've been so restrained most of my life, going to Catholic school and being the good son and the good husband. It's a fun escape route for me sometimes to lead that life.

We didn't play any Joy Division songs for 10 years after the start of New Order, which was a very honourable thing to do even if it meant shooting ourselves in the foot.

I appreciate a songwriter like Morrissey with so much restraint.

My father was a preacher so I wouldn't sing at all when he was around, but as soon as he locked the door, 'La la la.'

There's a clean simplicity to the plotting of 'Sinister,' whether you like it or not. And the scares are deliberate and even heavy-handed in a way. There's not a lot of sophistication or nuance in the plotting and not much restraint in the scares - and that's a part of what makes the movie accessible.

I think everyone holds back. I am always censoring myself and I'm sorry about it. But I always have to consider whether my remarks might cause someone pain.

A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.

The people are forbidden to give aid and comfort to rebels. What of a government that has the power to cut off from aid and comfort all the rebels of the South and fails to exercise it?

I've sown all the oats I want to sow.

We weren't so different, Finn and I. Cages come in lots of colors and shapes. Some are gilded, while others have a slamming door. But golden handcuffs are still handcuffs.

See, I didn't turn into a monster. You're safe here with me, Daisy. I control that part because I don't allow it like he does.

And I will stop trying to fall in love again, and keep it a secret. It never works out anyway

I knew if I started touching you I wouldn't be able to stop.

These are the things you don't say, even to someone you love.

there is no action kind enough to express heartbreak. I am left shut, the quietest of blossoms.

No matter what she'd done in our past, I would always want her. I could turn away and show restraint a thousand times, and it would never lessen the hunger I had for that woman.

I want to kiss you so very badly, Rose. But I can't. And its killing me"-Mr. Stone

There is so much that needs to be said and too many things that can't ever be said.

Umica ka hanuHOLD THE BREATHBe patient

I am a practical person. Always believed in multi purpose tools, good education and limited conversations .... and then I saw her!

She was his only escape, And she was his only prison.

Gluttony is one of the lowest and most animal vices, and is obnoxious to all who pursue a moderate course.