Quotes About Restraint

Not every affection which seems good is to be immediately followed. Neither is every opposite affection to be immediately avoided. Sometimes it is expedient to use restraint even in good desires and wishes, lest through importunity you fall into distraction of mind, lest through want of discipline you become a stumbling block to others.

No man can safely speak, unless he who would gladly remain silent.

Grant to me a humble and quiet spirit, one that is never uncontrolled or garrulous.

not thyself to attain much rest, but much patience.

Oh, how good and peacemaking a thing it is to be silent concerning others, and not carelessly to believe all reports, nor to hand them on further; how good also to lay one's self open to few, to seek ever to have Thee as the beholder of the heart; not to be carried about with every wind of words, but to desire that all things inward and outward be done according to the good pleasure of Thy will!

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which set bounds to the passions

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which sets bounds to the passions

In the Glass family stories, the mother is portrayed as hungry for her son's correspondence and news. She is portrayed as insatiable for this, in fact, and for this reason her son Zooey is in a constant state of mortified retreat. This theme plays itself out in many of Salinger's stories, the reticent brother and son who doesn't keep in touch.

Caroline was one of them people who utter three failures of judgment for every two words they speak, and by trying to correct them, you only succeed in presenting further occasion on which to exercise their vice, so I kept my remarks to the minimum. "So after

I don't necessarily think that the world should know everything, and even if you consider yourself to be extremely honest, that doesn't mean you have to blurt everything out all the time.

If something is good, more is not necessarily better. Not always.

I am not an actor who enjoys negative comments on other heroes.

The negative side is that sometimes it is beyond control.

There's always a fine line that divides hostility from neutrality, and I don't want to pass that line.

I'm not going to say something I shouldn't. In that way, I was probably the perfect guy to play in New England.

It is, no doubt, an immense advantage to have done nothing, but one should not abuse it.

I see no point in talking about myself unnecessarily.

There's no point breaking a lot of crockery unnecessarily.

If a company is not a monopoly, then the law assumes market competition can restrain the company's actions. No problem. If a monopoly exists, but the monopoly does not engage in acts designed to destroy competition, then we can assume that it earned and is keeping its monopoly the pro-consumer way: by out-innovating its competitors.

I have no problem in confessing that I drink alcohol but I always take it in a very limited manner.

Will restrained a desire to leap in at this point and tell her that an inability to hold down a relationship was indicative of an undervalued kind of moral courage, that only cool people screwed up.

not even sex, especially not sex, please God not sex, the filthiest and most terrifying invention of the early seventies.

What I reckon is: everyone's a loony. However normal anyone seems, deep down inside they're actually mental, every single person in the world and the whole of your life you have to learn not to seem mental to other people, who are all mental, too… If you think how babies act – we really don't stop being like that. Everyone wants to scream loudly, and grab things without asking and break them, but it's not allowed, is it?