Quotes About Restraint

The first is that the individual forming part of a crowd acquires, solely from numerical considerations, a sentiment of invincible power which allows him to yield to instincts which, had he been alone, he would perforce have kept under restraint. He will be the less disposed to check himself from the consideration that, a crowd being anonymous, and in consequence irresponsible, the sentiment of responsibility which always controls individuals disappears entirely.

The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren't the master of yourself. Anger is.

Instead of getting at the other side with something just as bad as they did to you - or something worse - you do something good. Or at least you keep yourself from doing something bad

I have been much too calm these past three years. I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.

After all, she is lucky. I have been much too calm these past three years. I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity. I leave.

It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.

The pro-growth policies and spending restraint of Conservatives work.

Guitar playing is not my strong suit. I cut my finger off, working in an oil field, and it don't work anymore, so I'm limited as to what I can do on the guitar.

My husband jokes that I'll invite people over for dinner and he won't know who they are or where I met them. But in my work world, I've never really been tempted to tell too much of my story.

In fact, it was all I could do to stop myself from saying, 'I've always been a big fan of your work.

All of my wildness is in the writing. I have discovered I have to be orderly and boring in my personal life to be wild in my work.

My strategy has always been to give people just enough of me, then pull back. That way, they'll want more.

I sometimes still feel I am living in a goldfish bowl, but I now manage it better. I still have a naughty streak, too, which I enjoy and is how I relate to those individuals who have got themselves into trouble.

I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot.

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

Don't overdo it. Don't over-diet, over-exercise, overeat, overdo the makeup, and don't stress out.

I stand for strict economy in governmental affairs.

My social media is very strict to my character and I've disabled comments on a lot of things because why would the Aleister Black character care about comments?

In being strict, you were able to control.

I had very strict parents. My two brothers were power and freedom. I was powerlessness and seclusion.

I had very strict parents, I could never go outside or go to parties.

I want to have my own brand and there were things I couldn't do because of the 'Strictly' brand and the time involved.

I've been taking it in stride, man. I'm not the kind of person who goes around bragging to everybody, 'I did a song with Lady Gaga!'

Anytime I feel squeezed into a box, I just lash out. My gut reaction is to strike. It's a different character onstage: there's a whole dark sexuality that's completely different from me. You know, I don't let anybody know who I really am.