Quotes About Restraint

In other more deeply moral worlds than this pellet of muck, there might exist restraints, principles, transcendental consolations, and even a certain pride in making happy someone one does not really love; but on this planet, Lucettes are doomed.

The tiny madman in his padded cell

No, no puedes echarle mano de una pistola y pegarle un tiro a una chica a la que ni siquiera conoces, simplemente porque te atrae.

The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

You should smile more often.' 'Can't.' He grunted as he opened her shirt to expose her chest. 'My face might freeze like that.

I'm on the very edge right now." His voice throbbed with raw lust. "I want you under me. I want to claim you, get myself all over you. And as much as I'd love to mount you right here in public, right now—and I think in my past, I would have—I never want anyone to see you like that but me.

Humans," said the puppeteer, "should not be allowed to run loose. You will surely harm yourselves.

A man without religion is like a horse without a bridle.

To silence another, first be silent yourself.

Trying to read slowly when you haven't had time to read is like holding back hunger. It's like having a meal in front of you and knowing you should be polite and use a fork, when all you really want to do is lean over and shovel it in with both hands.

But no monk am I in my head, God grant me pardon," he whispered. His body drew closer, velvet and taut elegance. "My confessor has chastised me oft, and bade me study on my sins at length. And so, lady"--he kissed her, the hunger in it sinking down through her like a comet falling--"I have studied.

something she was obliged to keep to herself because of others' prejudices.

Since I can't get this leashoff and take myself for a walk, what would you suggest, baby?" she lifted her chin "that's princess to you

Hannah." He looks at me, the same way he looked at me last night in the diner, with longing and sadness, and it's like everything I'm feeling I can see in his eyes. I want to kiss him so bad it hurts, but I know I can't. So instead, I tear my gaze from his and look down at the ground.

Anything I need to know?' said Ruby. 'Uh huh, RULE 1: KEEP IT ZIPPED.

That mama-bear, elegant-and-modest-on-the-outside, hot-as-allfuck-on-the-inside thing was ringing his doorbell. And God help him, he knew it was beyond inappropriate to be making up fuck fantasies about this woman right then but he couldn't help it.

My angel-boy is close now, as in five-feet-away close. There's no way I'm going to burst into song in front of him. But then the contrary part of me says, you're going to let a boy keep you from singing out loud? Sing, sister! Sing! So I do, and my angel-boy turns his head.

SnowAngel: oh, i want to KILL jana!!!! zoegirl: only the sucky thing is, you can't. i don't want you getting on jana's bad side too.

Religion is obsessed with nature, because religion fears nature. Thus, religion attempts to reign in and control nature, including the nature of human sexuality.

There was no use in trying to emancipate a wife who had not the dimmest notion that she was not free," Wharton wrote in her Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, The Age of Innocence.

Words are like sweets; too many of them make you sick.

she was aware of his love - how could she not? She perceived it every time he looked at her. He was not demonstrative, but his ardour was all the more evident for the reins with which he restrained it, the mask of steel behind which he imprisoned it, his detached demeanour and deliberate gestures that, far from parading a lack of interest, displayed the strength of his self-discipline, that he could so tightly curb the intensity of his passion.

Laugh—be jolly. There are those who think it lordly to be cold as a stone, but feelings are like wolves. When caged they become more ferocious, and at the end, they always escape.