Quotes About Restraint

Light control works; close control leads to overreaction

You cannot do anything with knowledge unless you know where it stops, and the costs of using it.

things are starting to be brought under control today;

in absence of much additional information it is preferable to reserve one's judgment.

charm lies in the unsaid, the unwritten, and the undisplayed.

But to do things right, they ought to learn to keep silent in the absence of news of significance.

because it requires a combination of belief, a capacity for delayed gratification

But you need to remain understated and maintain an Olympian calm in front of others.

Ta? duvarlar de?ildir zindan? zindan yapan, Ya da demir parmakl?klar kafesi yaratan.

She had wanted to cough as soon as it occurred to her that she mustn't, and she passed a long hour trying to swallow away the tickle that perversely constricted her throat.

Hold thy peace, dear little Pearl! whispered her mother. We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

But year after year that summons, unheard but felt, was disobeyed. His one secret thought became like a chain binding down his spirit and like a serpent gnawing into his heart.

Without any effort of his will, or power to restrain himself, he shrieked aloud; an outcry that went pealing through the night, and was beaten back from one house to another, and reverberated from the hills in the background; as if a company of devils, detecting so much misery and terror in it, had made a plaything of the sound and were bandying it to and fro.

Atrocities were expected in both European and Native conflicts. And yet, the English had to admit that compared to what was typical of European wars, the Indians had conducted themselves with surprising restraint.

Her beauty was not like that of a bonsai, which achieves its charm by asserting its own will in defiance of the careful bindings that lash and restrict it. How, I wondered, would my grandfather describe Mitsuru's beauty?

A pedestal is the most insidious prison ever devised.

They have elevated him on a pedestal, but...a pedestal is nothing more than an elegant cage. No walls, no locks, but unless one has wings to fly away, one is trapped. A pedestal is the most insidious prison ever devised.

Don't I have a choice in this?" But when she looks behind her, the answer is clear. There are two guards waiting to make sure that she has no choice at all. And as they lead her away, she thinks of Mr. Durkin. With a bitter laugh, Risa realizes that he may get his wish after all. Someday he may see her hands playing in Carnegie Hall. Unfortunately, the rest of Risa won't be there.

Permission is the bloated corpse of freedom.

Tyger might have thought of himself as a free spirit, but he wasn't at all. He just defined the dimensions of his own cage.

There is a fine line between freedom and permission. The former is necessary. The latter is dangerous.

He just defined the dimensions of his own cage.

His broken body wanted to hurt, but it was forbidden to. He remembered thinking, in his opiate-induced delirium, how sad it must be for a body to want something so badly and to be completely denied.

Damisch Control