Quotes About Restraint

no man is ever free and probably could not bear it if he were...

We shall not kill and maybe next time we even won't.

Learn us all the refinement and education that there's a better use for the mouth than running private opinions through it.

He says it harshly, savagely, but he does not say the word. Like a little boy in the dark to flail his courage and suddenly aghast into silence by his own noise.

He dont have to move very far to go nuts in the first place and so he dont have so far to come back.

ve çoktand?r öÄŸrenmiÅŸ ki insan özgür olamaz ve olsa da buna dayanamaz

I wasn't crying, but I couldn't stop.

Nothing can be given, which cannot also be withheld.

Case fell into the prison of his own flesh.

People smoke, and drink as though it were good for you, and seem to still be in some sort of honeymoon phase with cocaine.

Language fits over experience like a straight jacket.

The thing is---fear can't hold you any more than a dream...

Our mistake is to confuse our limitations with the bounds of possibility . . .

He frequently lost all self-control and his language grew increasingly violent. In his intimate circle he now found no restraining influence.47

We could take his gag away , thought Isaac, and he wouldn't scream . . . but then he might speak . . . He left the gag in place.

prison of Peter and Paul

Never write a letter while you are angry.

Have love in your heart, but be smart and express your compassion with restraint and detachment.

Do not be in a hurry to rush into the pleasures of the world like the young antelope who danced herself lame when the main dance was yet to come.

The emperor would prefer the poet to keep away from politics, the emperor's domain, so that he can manage things the way he likes.

People are tempted to tell you everything, with perfect accuracy, right up front, when they should be giving you just enough info to be useful, then a little more, then a little more.

In one study, some people were asked to restrain their emotions while watching a sad movie about sick animals. Afterward, they exhibited less physical endurance than others who'd let the tears flow

Self-control is an exhaustible resource

we cannot force ourselves to love—or to withhold it. At best, we can curb our actions. The heart itself is beyond control. That is its power, and its weakness.