Quotes About Restraint

She doesn't care much for eloquence in others.  She thinks it a little loud. [

And Sleep will not lie down, but walks Wild-eyed and cries to Time.

With introverts, what you see is only a portion of their personality. The richest and most trusted parts of an introvert's personality are not necessarily shared with the outside world. It takes time, trust, and special circumstances for them to begin to open up.

You will go most safely by the middle way.

A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

Siqua metu dempto casta est, ea denique casta est; quae, quia non liceat, non facit, illa facit

All my bally life, dear boy," Motty went on, "I've been cooped up in the ancestral home at Much Middlefold, in Shropshire, and till you've been cooped up in Much Middlefold you don't know what cooping is!

All my bally life, dear boy," Motty went on, "I've been cooped up in the ancestral home at Much Middlefold, in Shropshire, and till you've been cooped up in Much Middlefold you don't know what cooping

One more toot--just one single, solitary suggestion of the faintest shadow or suspicion of anything remotely approaching a toot--and may the Lord have mercy on your soul.

It was all Mrs. Waddington could do to refrain from hurling a bust of Edgar Allan Poe at her head.

Lady Constance's lips tightened, and a moment passed during which it seemed always a fifty-fifty chance that a handsome silver ink-pot would fly through the air in the direction of her brother's head.

What can I say without touching the earth with my hands?

Amazing how the soup pots of small towns are just waiting to boil over anything at all.

Abstente de hacer lo que deseas, y podrás entonces hacer lo que te plazca».

Yoga is a method for restraining the natural turbulence of thoughts, which otherwise impartially prevent all men, of all lands, from glimpsing their true nature of Spirit.

Yoga is a method for restraining the natural turbulence of thoughts, which otherwise impartially prevents all men, of all lands, from glimpsing their true nature of Spirirt.

The burning Indian imagination, which can extort new order out of a mass of apparently contradictory facts, is held in check by the habit of concentration. This restraint confers the power to hold the mind to the pursuit of truth with an infinite patience.

Moraleja: Todo apego es cegador y presta un imaginario halo de atracción al objeto deseado.

He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city." I

She was one of those Southerners who were aware from an early age that the South could never be more for them than a fragrant prison, administered by a collective of loving but treacherous relatives.

The past was one country where I tried to limit the number of free trips.

His face, at once beautiful and feral, revealed no more than the lion's face, which says nothing at all as the lion crouches and waits. It speaks only when it springs.

Excess is essential to the production of austerity.

I'm afraid of sympathy as if it were a collar, tightening.