Quotes About Restraint

I have drawn the line, and I am still on this side of it.

Recovering alcoholics often talk about drinking "the way they wanted to" when they were alone, drinking without the feeling of social restraint they might have had at a party or in a restaurant. There's something almost childlike about the need, and about the language we use to describe it: wanting our bottles, wanting to crawl into that dark room in our minds and curl up and be alone with our object of security.

Where are the lines between satisfaction and excess, between restraint and indulgence, between pleasure and self-destruction? And why are they so difficult to find, particularly for women?

I dislike your formality."...."Your formality keeps us at arms length when I want not even a hairbreadths between us.

I rarely cry. I save my feelings up inside me like I have something more specific in mind for them. I am waiting for the exact perfect situation and then BOOM! I'll explode in a light show of feeling and emotion - a pinata stuffed with tender nuances and pent-up passions

I will not be violent," I chant-mutter. "I will not be violent. I am peaceful and good. I do not want to give anyone the finger.

You must admit you have self-control before you can use it.

He glanced her way, and the reality of his responsibility toward her became clear. If he wasn't ready to declare his feelings and propose, then he must guard his words and actions. He should think of her like a sister and treat her as he would Clara. But could he ever be satisfied with that?

Having to explain it means you probably shouldn't have said it.

You're not going," he said as soon as she'd finished. "If I have to tie you up and sit on you until this insane whim of yours passes, you are not going to Idris." - Jace

So we'll go no more a-roving so late into the night, Though the heart be still as loving, and the moon be still as bright.

Your own space, man, it's so important. That's why we were doomed because we didn't have any. It is like monkeys in a zoo. They die. You know, everything needs to be left alone.

Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.

Reason lies between the spur and the bridle.

Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Prosperity lets go the bridle.

Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.

The ultimate expression of law is not order - it's prison.

He had been seen by another. He had become a part of the other's world, and therefore no longer in complete control of his own. The eye was another kind of cage. When it saw you the lid came down, and you were trapped.

It's not easy being drunk all the time. Everyone would do it, if it were easy.

I understand that if any more words come pouring out your cunt mouth, I'm going to have to eat every fucking chicken in this room.

You mistake patience for forbearance.

So be it. I'll wear my iron and hold my tongue. A man who won't listen can't hear.