Quotes About Restraint

It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.

To those who think that the law of gravity interferes with their freedom, there is nothing to say.

The ultimate aim of martial arts is not having to use them

Usually, a well thought answer makes an aggressor think twice.

A martial art that has no rules is nothing but violence.

The true mark of maturity is when someone hurts you and you try and understand their situation instead of hurting them back.

It isn't only art that is incompatible with happiness, it's also science. Science is dangerous, we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled.

Take this at least, this last advice, my son: Keep a stiff rein, and move but gently on: The coursers of themselves will run too fast, Your art must be to moderate their haste.

Count art by gold, and it fetters the feet it once winged.

The heart desires, the hand refrains. The Godhead fires, the soul attains.

A moment of silence, please, for the lost art of shutting up.

He who cannot limit himself will never know how to write.

Minimalism itself had a very strong iconoclast impulse. You think of the sixties as loose and liberated, but in art it was actually quite the contrary.

The art of the quoter is to know when to stop.

It is a happy art to know when one has said enough. I would leave my hearers wishing me to say more rather than give them cause toshow, by their inattention, that I had said too much.

Judging art is like caging a bird. Instead of seeing it soar, you can only watch it flutter.

The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.

To notice people's deceptions yet not reveal it in words, to bear people's insults without showing any change of attitude-there is endless meaning in this, and also endless function.

The hunger inside us must be fed to be controlled.

I don't suppose you kept anything of hers, did you? Such as? A lock of hair, a knife which was dear to her, a scrap of her clothes? Vampires do not indulge in such foolishness, he said gruffly. They should, Evanna sighed.

Why do you want to be a vampire?" he asked. "It is not much fun. We can only come out at night. Humans despise us. We have to sleep in dirty old places like this. We can never marry or have children or settle down. It is a horrible life.

Life would be much simpler if I abandoned my humanity and ran wild with them, gave myself over to animalistic pleasures, free of the burdens of duty and responsibility.

My voice and movements are restricted by the things I own.

He couldn't leave the area and couldn't knowingly go within a hundred feet of someone with a criminal record. He couldn't do drugs and he couldn't own or carry a weapon. The