Quotes About Restraint

Beware the fury of a patient man.

To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

ABSTAINER, n. A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

To silence another, first be silent yourself.

O pirralho não se mexeu, e fabiano desejou matá-lo.

Liberdade completa ninguém desfruta: começamos oprimidos pela sintaxe e acabamos às voltas com a Delegacia de Ordem Política e Social, mas, nos estreitos limites a que nos coagem a gramática e a lei, ainda nos podemos mexer

I prefer to regard a dessert as I would imagine the perfect woman: subtle, a little bittersweet, not blowsy and extrovert. Delicately made up, not highly rouged. Holding back, not exposing everything and, of course, with a flavor that lasts.

One minute of patience, ten years of peace

But once you've done what you had to, they'll never let you do what you want to.

The Transmuters had built a structure that dwarfed universes, but touched each one only lightly. They hadn't turned whole worlds to rubble, they hadn't reshaped galaxies in their image. Having evolved on some distant, finite world, they'd inherited the most valuable survival trait of all. Restraint.

We learn precisely enough to keep us from wanting to know any more

Taken together, the artifacts comprised a giant sculpture, spanning more than a quadrillion dimensions. The Transmuters had built a structure that dwarfed universes, but touched each one only lightly. They hadn't turned whole worlds to rubble, they hadn't reshaped galaxies in their image. Having evolved on some distant, finite world, they'd inherited the most valuable survival trait of all. Restraint.

Free will again, Cathy said. Or free wont, Peterson said mildly.

When she introduces me to her parentsback straightened, hair finally combed, strangled by a tie,should I sit knees together on their 3rd degree sofaand not ask Where's the bathroom?

Her sentences were icebergs, with just the tip of her thought coming out of her mouth, and the rest kept up in her head, which I was starting to think was more and more beautiful the longer I looked at her.

I know you don't want to hear this but someone has to say it! You are out of control! I mean they're just shoes... let it go!

Stay within the confines of your chosen topic. If you start to stray away from your topic and find an urge to showcase everything that you know, resist that urge. Remember that you are writing a book, not the book.

por eso detesto las masturbaciones yacentes

Dharma is precisely this 'discipline of ordered existence', a 'belief system that restrains and gives coherence to desires.

Der Geschlechtstrieb ist das Joch vor dem Triumphwagen der Meduse, an den wir geschirrt sind.

The first is that the individual forming part of a group acquires, solely from numerical considerations, a sentiment of invincible power which allows him to' yield to instincts which, had he been alone, he would perforce have kept under restraint. He will be the less disposed to check himself from ±he consideration that, a group being anonymous, and in consequence irresponsible, the sentiment of responsibility which always controls individuals disappears entirely.

It was surprising how easy it was to think about the unthinkable if you'd had a few glasses of wine on a spring night.

Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.

those who are locked up know better than their jailers the taste of free air.