Quotes About Restraint

The walls are everywhere. Limits. You're not smart enough, not rich enough. You get tired. You die. Some people like to pretend they've broken out. That they're running free. But there's no escape. You have to find a way to live within the walls. And then, they don't matter.

I never miss a good chance to shut up

Beware the anger of a patient man.

SHUT UP!" I yelled all the way down the hall. "FOR ONCE IN YOUR LIFE, JUST SHUT YOUR STUPID NOSY MOUTH!

A flow of heroically suppressed swear words ran through my brain.

You're a Capricorn to the core. Organized, loves structure, not driven by impulse, a master of restraint.

It was all I could do to not give a mwa ha ha ha!

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As my mother used to say, "Don't tell your husband everything, only the important things.

I think you have to listen to the people who are deeply unhappy. You have to find the source of it and not overreact to the craziness in it.

Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out.

When you put on a uniform, there are certain inhibitions that you accept.

The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock, has triumphed most in the contrary direction - in simplicity, in unity, in clarity, and in restraint.

Attempts to tame the wayward and domesticate the riotous, to make the unknowable predictable and enchain the free-roaming - all such things sound the death knell to love.

When it comes to politics, unless it's an issue that's really close to home and you feel strongly about, I just don't think you should really talk about it.

Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet.

Eventually women will learn there's no such thing as freedom. Their husbands are just as fastened to the deck as they are. Men get onto a treadmill and never got off.

I've fancied other women, but I haven't done anything about it.

There's no point feeling angry at a drunk.

My quarrel with the advocates of contraceptives lies in their taking for granted that ordinary mortals cannot exercise self-control.

A bird cannot love freely when caged.

Who? Mr. Dalton has his hand firmly on Grace's elbow, as though she can't manoeuvre herself through the blockade of tables and chairs.She could fly right through you, thinks Jack.

Both for Havana's beauty and decay, it's very hard to restrain yourself from staring everywhere you look.

Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting.