Quotes About Restraint

It is possible to have words come to your mind, and still refrain from speaking them aloud.

must do all we can do without destroying our ability to keep doing it.

Don't press her," said Cooper. "If someone decides to leave something unsaid, my experience is that everyone is happier if they don't insist on his saying it.

Si sabes lo que es la locura, tal vez no caigas en ella.

Bean also saw how the man's body moved inside his clothes, with a kind of contained strength that made his clothes seem like Kleenex, he could rip through the fabric just by tugging at it a little, because nothing could hold him in except his own self-control.

we must do all we can do without destroying our ability to keep doing it.

The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.

Everything in moderation, including moderation.

Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.

The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.

Het enige wat je over oorlog moet weten, zoon, is: Niet gaan. "The only thing you need to know about war, son, is: Don't go.

Be strict with yourself but least reproachful of others and complaint is kept afar.

Even four harnessed horses cannot bring imprudent words back into the mouth.

Do everything in moderation, even moderation.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Very few go astray who comport themselves with restraint.

You keep runnin that mouth and I'm goin to take you back there and screw you.

I dont want anybody talking about me. To say where I was or what I said when I was there. I mean, you could talk about me maybe. But nobody could say that it was me. I could be anybody. I think in times like these the less said the better. If something had happened and we were survivors and we met on the road then we'd have something to talk about. But we're not. So we dont.

When you're defenseless you keep your opinions to yourself.

Oh, putrid puffballs! Stop winding us all up like this or I'll tie a knot in your tail!

Therese of Austry would have made a great treasure hunter if she hadn't been born the daughter of an Emperor.

Take my advice Meggie: Never develop a passion you can't afford!

He was, indeed, a governour, who had most exactly studied that book which, pretending to teach politicks, did only contain three leaves, and but one word in each of those leaves, which word was, MODERATION.

But I was living my life sideway. I did not act on what I wanted, I did not say the things I thought, and being so stifled and clamped all the time left me exhausted; no matter what I was doing, I was always imagining something else.