Quotes About Restraint

Every reasonable person must strive to promote moderation and a more objective judgment.

He held himself back for a while, but not for long.

Even at a young age Lisa began to realize his diet obsessions reflected a life philosophy, one in which asceticism and minimalism could heighten subsequent sensations. "He believed that great harvests came from arid sources, pleasure from restraint," she noted. "He knew the equations that most people didn't know: Things led to their opposites.

I was living out the dream of emancipation—a free man in America, desperate for someone to rein me in.

I should be rather like the wild hawk, who, barred the free exercise of his soar through heaven, will dash himself to pieces against the bars of his cage.

As every reader has experienced who may have chanced to be in such a situation, it is extremely difficult to maintain the full dignity of an offended person, in the presence of a beautiful girl, whatever reason we may have for being angry with her.

he is not fit to visit strange countries, who cannot rule his tongue before his own countrymen

You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you. True power is sitting back and observing things with magic. True power is restraint. If words control you that means everyone else can control you. Breathe and allow things to pass.

All the time, I was telling myself, just enjoy it for what it is, don't be weird, don't get all screwed up over something it isn't. The usual mantra when you're with someone who you're not really with and desperately want to be. Have you noticed how telling yourself all that shit never actually helps?

It's been so long, i'm afraid to get laid now! I got so much internal pressure built up that i'd probably blow a hole in a woman the size of my fist!

practice self-control.

Know when reason sets limits to avoid peril.

Who first invented work, and bound the freeAnd holiday-rejoicing spirit down?

The truth is a giant hand. It both cuts us free and holds us tight.

Play simple, and people will join in. Sing along. Which, by the way, is the goal. Our job is to put a song in their mouths and let them sing it back to us. That's all that really matters." Then he added, "The great players aren't great because of all the notes they can play, but because of the ones they don't play.

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

Watch it now. You're taking liberties. Don't make things any worse than they are. Don't let your mouth write a check that your ass can't cash, son.

IDK, I never represented someone for self-imprisonment before.

Since, replied Arabella, that uneasiness has neither made you thinner, nor paler, I don't think you ought to be pitied...

Celebrity is a corrosive condition for the soul. I have tried to restrain its inroads on me, but there are odd corners of my character that have been harmed

You should have me restrained,' she said. 'I could kill you. You never know when I might have a razor blade tucked up my sleeve.' 'Why kill me now?' Archie said. 'It would seem anticlimactic.

I never say the things I really want to. If I did, I'd have no friends.

One is forced to examine one's life when trapped in the wall by a Murphy bed.

I think people should have the legal right to hurt themselves without fearing that they're going to get locked up for doing so. But on a personal level, if someone I loved was hurting himself or herself in front of me, I would, of course, try to restrain them.