Quotes About Restraint

Elinor, cried Marianne, is this fair? is this just? are my ideas so scanty? But I see what you mean. I have been too much at my ease, too happy, too frank. I have erred against every common-place notion of decorum; I have been open and sincere where I ought to have been reserved, spiritless, dull, and deceitful:- had I talked only of the weather and the roads, and had I spoken only once in ten minutes, this reproach would have been spared.

for with all his self-indulgence he had become a prudent man)

The surprise of finding himself almost alone with Anne Elliot, deprived his manners of their usual composure...

Sus modales eran refinados y su comportamiento ni excesivamente tímido ni afectadamente franco, con lo cual resultaba alegre, bonita y atractiva, sin llamar la atención de cuantos hombres la miraban y (mi parte favorita) sin hacer vehementes demostraciones de contrariedad o de placer cada vez que se presentaba la ocasión de manifestar cualquiera de estos sentimientos. Porque qué lindo es cuando una mujer no es sobreactuada.

It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively, without being at any ball of any description, and no material injury accrue either to body or mind;—but when a beginning is made—when the felicities of rapid motion have once been, though slightly, felt—it must be a very heavy set that does not ask for more.

I have not yet tranquillised myself enough to see Frederica.

A young woman, if she fall into bad gands, may be teazed, and kept at a distance from those she wants to be with; but one cannot comprehend a young man's being under such restraint, as not to be able to spend a week with his father, if he likes it.

Non vorrei mai offendere nessuno, ma sono così stupidamente timido che spesso sembro freddo e indifferente mentre invece sono trattenuto soltanto dalla mia goffaggine naturale.

but yet it appeared to her so natural, so inevitable to strive against an inclination of that sort unrequited, that she could not comprehend its continuing very long in equal force.

This violent oppression of spirits continued the whole evening. She was without any power, because she was without any desire of command over herself.

It was some months before Sir Thomas's consent could be received; but in the mean while, as no one felt a doubt of his most cordial pleasure in the connection, the intercourse of the two families was carried on without restraint, and no other attempt made at secrecy, than Mrs. Norris's talking of it every where as a matter not to be talked of at present.

En vano he luchado. No servirá. Mis sentimientos no serán reprimidos. Debe permitirme que le diga cuanto la admiro y la amo.

My impressions of Hank are of a man reaching but unreachable, gentle but capable of sudden wild and dangerous violence, sharply critical of others but equally self-critical, caged and fighting the bars but timid of the light, viciously opposed to external restraint, imposing an iron slavery on himself. His face is a picture of opposites in conflict.

I believed our touching to be more intense because of it's very holding back. Belief is always a choice.

No relationship is without erotic feeling, Evelyn said. She had heard it somewhere at a cocktail party, an academic cocktail party. Someone else had added, as she added now, But that doesn't necessarily mean it has to be acted upon.

Bitch. Slut. Whore. Cunt. I kicked Joyce in the shin. I draw the line at cunt.

You can't put cuffs on Mr. Cluck! What will the kids think? Stuart Bagget

I can't squeeze to keep the breezers in.

It means that he looks like my boyfriend, but I don't say it out loud.

Riley reminded herself that she was a professional, and stabbing Emerson with her nail file wouldn't be appropriate.

We didn't do this sort of emotional display. We did temper and sarcasm. Anything beyond temper and sarcasm was virgin territory.

If it weren't for me, she wouldn't have to take jobs like this. She would be half a planet away, floating in a turquoise sea, dancing by moonlight to flamenco guitar. I felt my guilt like a brand.... I had seen girls clamor for new clothes and complain about what their mothers made for dinner. I was always mortified. Didn't they know they were tying their mothers to the ground? Weren't chains ashamed of their prisoners?

I was always mortified.Didn't they know they were tying thier mothers to the ground? Weren't chains ashamed of their prisoners?

It was safer in here, there were rules and regular meals, professional care. Mac was a floor you could not fall below. I supposed the ex-cons who kept going back to prison felt the same way. "You