Quotes About Restraint

We humans are confined to our brane.

What I've learned is that everything in life - and I mean, even the worst of it - can be turned into grace...the test is - for even one moment in our lives - not to strike back at something, no matter how bad it gets...when you're faced with the temptation to get angry or upset and to hit back - you just don't do it. You let the temptation roll over you and not touch you. The idea is not to add to the collective pain...and by not doing so, you make the world a better place.

The Prime Directive exists to remind us that we are not gods. We don't get to reorganize every world, every civilization, every existence out here in our own image,

Quiet people keep thier secrets to themselves. That's what makes them interesting...and usually worth the wait.

My boyfriends have all been as stoical as queen's guards. They'd been patient, committed, and dispassionate, and I'd had to really debase myself to extract any emotion, either grin or grimace, from them.

Free people can handle liberty because they have developed character through exercising the restraint dictated by their virtues. They are not the slaves of their physical desires; rather, they train their bodies to behave in order to fulfill the higher desires created by their own virtues.

steam boiler, delivering so and so many pounds of steam to its engines as long as the envelope can contain the pressure; but let a breach in its continuity arise—relieving the boiling water of all restraint—and in a moment the whole mass flashes into vapour, developing a power no work of man can oppose.

This lack of liberty, or rather this slavery to fashion, is one of the idols which attracts a great number of Christians. How much money is sacrificed upon its altar!—without taking into account that so much good could otherwise be done with it. Being poor in spirit means, above all, being unrestrained by what is called fashion; it means freedom.

López Obrador, sin abandonar el marco democrático, socava los contrapesos al Ejecutivo, condición éstos tanto para acotar el poder presidencial como para desarrollar la democracia.

No. You just had breakfast, you piggy," Lexie said, bending to pat the tan fluffy dog on the head. "You're on a diet." Her sister tended to overfeed him

Estás en medio de la gente, callada, encogida, con aire de querer escapar a cada instante.

We all do as we're told but some days it doesn't seem to matter.

Eventually, everything gets stuck between a pair of parentheses or buried in the bottom of a trunk.

When in doubt, shut up.

Strat yearned to imagine her without even the thin white dress, but it would not be honorable, so he prevented himself from having such a fantasy.

The only thing crueler than a cage so small that a bird can't fly is a cage so large that a bird thinks it can fly.

If we were teenagers, I could kiss you. But I'm on a platform behind a counter wearing a name tag and we're too old to be young.

I wish it were socially acceptable to brandish a knife.

Alas, we can't control other people. We can only control ourselves.

I understand that your attraction to me is so intense that you need to keep a safe distance

Most 'normal' people in America are in the same boat right now, torn between wanting to save the people they're stuck with and wanting to fucking kill them.

Let it be known that I only punched him once and not in the face.

You want to go places you can't go.

The only thing crueler than a cage so small that a bird can't fly is a cage so large that a bird thinks it can fly. Only a monster would lock a bird in here and call himself an animal lover.