Quotes About Restraint

She didn't tell me how to live, and I didn't tell her how to die. We let sleeping dogs lie.

There used to be places called prisons before the Epiphany, where the demerited were restrained against their will. It sounds hideously barbaric Prisons are still with us; only the walls are constructed of fear, taboo and the unknown.

Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.

Le tact dans l'audace, c'est de savoir jusqu'où on peut aller trop loin.

Patience and time do more than force and rage.

There is a sound to waiting. It sounds like held breath pounding its fists against the walls of the lung, damp and muffled beats.

L'homme est né libre, et partout il est dans les fers.

L'uomo è nato libero e ovunque si trova in catene

Moins j'ouvrirai la bouche, moins je ferai figure odieuse et cynique.

What a strange world it is where you can have as much sex as you like but love is taboo. I'm talking about the real thing, the grand passion, which may not allow affection or convenience or happiness. The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down. That's the size of it, the immensity of it. It's not proper, it's not clean, it's not containable.

Perhaps it is true that the world is made new again every day but our minds are not. The clamp that holds me will not let me go.

Annem elimin kitaba deÄŸmesini istemiyordu.Kitaplar?n içine bal?klama dalaca??m akl?na bile gelmedi-saklanmak için kendimi onlara hapsedeceÄŸim de.

Living with life is very hard. Mostly we do our best to stifle life - to be tame or to be wanton. To be tranquillised or raging. Extremes have the same effect; they insulate us from the intensity of life. And extremes - whether of dullness or fury - successfully prevent feeling.

Walls protect and walls limit.

MAN is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. One man thinks himself the master of others, but remains more of a slave than they are. -

Man is born free, but is everywhere in chains.

Man is born free but today everywhere he is in chains.

To be driven by our appetites alone is slavery, while to obey a law that we have imposed on ourselves is freedom.

The wise man observes the public disorder he cannot prevent; he observes it, and reveals by his sad countenance the grief it causes him; but as for individual disorders, he opposes them or averts his eyes, lest his presence be taken for approval.

We no longer dare seem what we really are, but lie under a perpetual restraint; in the meantime the herd of men, which we call society, all act under the same circumstances exactly alike, unless very particular and powerful motives prevent them. Thus we never know with whom we have to deal; and even to know our friends we must wait for some critical and pressing occasion; that it, till it is too late; for it is on those very occasion that such knowledge is of use to us.

Hard to rouse and hard to restrain: that had been a constant trait in my character.

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. One man thinks himself the master of others, but remains more of a slave than they are.

Toute passion est bonne quand on en est maître, mais mauvaise quand on en est assujetti.