Quotes About Restraint

Whatever I do, I do it in moderation.

I don't necessarily believe in moderation, but I do believe in the dangers of excess, and that's with some good things too.

I try to be very modest with what I do. I'm not a frivolous spender.

Modesty forbids what the law does not.

I can only spend $140 a month in here. I'm saving, like, $10,000 a day.

I have been free for more than a month. Some people may think that that is long enough. Others may think that that is not quite long enough.

I never fry a doughnut! If you want a doughnut, go and buy one once in a blue moon. It's about everything in moderation.

There should be limits morally and legally as to how far you are willing to go to try to hurt someone and their family.

Mostly I have to try to censor myself so as not to write things that will hurt other people, or that will go too far.

Caution, not exuberance, should be our fiscal motto.

If someone doesn't ask, you don't have a moral obligation to say every thought that pops in your head.

They carried the common secret of cowardice barely restrained, the instinct to run or freeze or hide, and in many respects this was the heaviest burden of all, for it could never be put down, it required perfect balance and perfect posture.

They carried shameful memories. They carried the common secret of cowardice barely restrained, the instinct to run or freeze or hide, and in many respects this was the heaviest burden of all, for it could never be put down, it required perfect balance and perfect posture

But the lieutenant knew that in war purpose is never paramount, neither purpose nor cause, and that battles are always fought among human beings, not purposes. He could not imagine dying for a purpose. Death was its own purpose, no qualification or restraint. He did not celebrate war. He did not believe in glory.

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Considerations? No thanks, Howard. That's what they make cages out of.

Democracy extends the sphere of individual freedom; socialism restricts it. Democracy attaches all possible value to each man; socialism makes each man a mere agent, a mere number. Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word: equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.

When your words are futile, you're better off keeping them to yourself

To the domesticated, nomads were an unwelcome reminder of instinct suppressed, liberty compromised, and control unimplemented.

You think human nature is a beast, that it must be put in a cage. But it's the cage that makes the animal bad.

Los sentimientos son libres pero rara vez los hombres se atreven a obedecer esa libertad. Me

Everything depends on knowing how much," she said, and "Good is knowing when to stop.

Good is knowing when to stop.

How loose the silk. How jailed down the juice.