Quotes About Restraint

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 hydraulic rams came to life and

Later, under a vast, blue sky, Archer pushed the Nash fast as he roared down the road leading to Lucas Tuttle's. The big, bulky car handled well and had plenty of power, like Shaw's Buick. Before taking the wheel of the Buick, Archer hadn't driven a car in years. For obvious reasons, the prison folks had not deemed it sensible to allow convicts to command heavy pieces of equipment

Me being arrested would

Every state and national capitol should have a sign on the door: Stop me before I legislate again.

The policeman recognized me, but I suppose that's only natural. Silk was going to kill him, but I said no." "Why?" Beldin asked bluntly. "We were in the middle of a busy street for one thing. Killing somebody's the sort of thing you ought to do in private, wouldn't you say?

Selon Chondler, conclut-il, il n'existe qu'une seule vertu : la modération. Encore ne faut-il pas la pratiquer avec excès.

He didn't reject the idea so much as not react to it and watch as it floated away. He thought very broadly of desires and ideas being watched but not acted upon, he thought of impulses being starved of expression and dying out and floating dryly away.

I think it's easy to stop smoking; it's just hard not to commit a felony after you stop.

Aren't there parts of ourselves that are just better left unfed?

Kid, sobriety's like a hard-on; the minute you get it, you want to fuck with it.

He didn't reject the idea so much as not react to it and watch as it floated away. He thought very broadly of desires and ideas being watched but not acted upon, he thought of impulses being starved of expression and drying out and floating dryly away, and

These kids should be out drinking beer and seeing films and having panty raids and losing virginities and writhing to suggestive music, not making up long, sad, convoluted stories.

Marathe shifted in his chair. 'In a case such as this you become the slave who believes he is free.

The medical attache partakes of neither kif nor distilled spirits, and must unwind without chemical aid.

Gately's never had sex sober yet, or danced, or held somebody's hand except to say the Our Father in a big circle.

But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue.

It is not, nor it cannot, come to good, But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue.

I have a soul of lead So stakes me to the ground I cannot move.

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it do singe yourself.

I cannot heave my heart into my mouth. I love your majesty according to my bond; no more no less.

I can hardly forbear hurling things at him.

Unless hours were cups of sack, and minutes capons, and clocks the tongues of bawds, and dials the signs of leaping-houses, and the blessed sun himself a fair hot wench in flame-colored taffeta, I see no reason why thou shouldst be so superfluous to demand the time of the day.

And these few precepts in thy memory Look thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar. Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them unto thy soul with hoops of steel, But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatched, unfledged comrade.

From too much liberty, my Lucio, liberty As surfeit is the father of much fast, So every scope of the immoderate use Turns to restraint. Our natures do pursue, - Like rats that ravin down their proper bane, - A thirsty evil; and when we drink we die.