Quotes About Restraint

Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time.

It is too easy lately to drink too much. To love the warm way it numbs. And I feel Jake watching me; he's counting my drinks too.

She wanted to say something that would let him know how much he'd hurt her. Something that would hurt him. But words failed her. They tangled together like knotted shoestrings in her mind, so she said nothing.

The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else do it wrong without comment.

The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else doing it wrong, without comment.

When we accept as angelic gifts the restraints that are given to us, the result is equanimity.

All the times she had refrained from striking her captor for fear of losing her life now seeking release, she struck that smooth jaw with such force she stumbled back.

Carol Anne had a bad case of motor-mouth. Amanda wanted to install a muffler.

Settled on the carriage seat, Olivia drew in a deep breath, the first in what felt like five years. she knew it was wrong, what she was feeling. Because of widow of only a week shouldn't wish to dance a jig. But God help her, that's precisely what part of her wanted to do. Not on the grave of her recently deceased husband, of course-that would be considered rude. Just off to the side would suffice.

Fences can be prisons, in a way. They're necessary for those incapable of learning restraint, but they diminish life.

Even if a river flows with milk, a dog can take in only one lick at a time

Fully Filled pot does not spill

Everyone needs freedom. If you're in bondage, get free.

Don't fool yourself: we all have a cruel streak. We keep it under lock and key either because we're afraid of getting punished or because we believe this will somehow make a difference, make the world a better place.

He wants to punch something, but he knows that would do nothing but bust his knuckles. Having that much sense makes him feel old.

Even at moments like this, there is a limit to how weird I am prepared to appear.

A man needs to know when to let things lie.

I've lost count of how many times I've caught myself in the half-second before I splattered temper everywhere and stuck myself cleaning up the mess for the rest of my life.

A guard is as much a prisoner as those he keeps from freedom.

The Founders knew that unrestrained power is always dangerous. No person or group is immune from mistakes, selfishness, and greed.

Invinciblement, quelque chose l'attirait là. Il était prisonnier de sa propre liberté. Il ne pouvait s'arrêter. Il était obnubilé par ce qu'il voyait.

But I lived in a world where you could never want what you wanted out in the open.

Bernadette never learned that a restrained voice meant dignity and control of strong feeling or good manners, especially in women. She thought such a voice was servile, fit only for servants, and that the possessor was timid, humble, inferior, and worthy only of abuse and peremptory correction.

Perhaps men were not meant to live in such a place. If their own natures restrained them from approaching heaven too closely, then men should remain on the earth.