Quotes About Restraint

GÅ'upota jest bestiÄ… wyjÄ…tkowÄ…, takÄ… która nie mo?e gry??, gdy siÄ™ jÄ… ciÄ…gnie za ogon.

Yes, sir,' said Jeeves in a low, cold voice, as if he had been bitten in the leg by a personal friend.

Solvency being the better part of valor, I let it slide rather than nuke the trio with one lick of my vermilion tongue.

Nadie imagina todos los alaridos que se ocultan tras el silencio de los tímidos. Dejaríamos sordo al universo entero si nos lo propusiéramos.

I would force myself again and again to guard against my own overeagerness. Such self-control was crucial, for many times it led to great victories when self-indulgence might have led to defeats.

What good have you to offer, or what do you know of pleasure, you who refuse to do anything with a view of either? You don't even wait for the desire for what is pleasant: you stuff yourself with everything before you want it, eating before you are hungry and drinking before you are thirsty.

Glaucon, the son of Ariston, had conceived such an ardour to gain the headship of the state that nothing could hinder him but he must deliver a course of public speeches, though he had not yet reached the age of twenty. His friends and relatives tried in vain to stop him making himself ridiculous and being dragged down from the bema. Socrates, who took a kindly interest in the youth for the sake of Charmides the son of Glaucon, and of Plato, alone succeeded in restraining him.

Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness--how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view of things? This peephole is all I've got!

I have nothing to say of my working life, only that a tie is a noose, and inverted though it is, it will hang a man nonetheless if he's not careful. I

a tie is a noose

Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.

And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was rather limited. I think, I don't think anyone in my family would really feel I'd done them an injustice by saying that. We didn't see many people. There were many books. It was as if I wanted to get away from home.

Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.

Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.

Those who have bound themselves are only too eager to see the chains on others.

Self-regulation is highly valued. Even if we find them a bit tedious, we admire people who stick to an exercise regimen. We certainly value people who do not express every negative emotion they experience, those who are "low maintenance" because they can control their reactions to disappointment and insecurity. We can count on the self-controlled person to keep her promises because she will not be distracted in the course of so doing.

Violence is my last option.

If he weren't so thoroughly wrung out, he could kill the bastard on the spot. In his present condition, he'd be lucky to strangle a gnat

she'd learned not to ask every question that cane to mind, knowing some things would be understood in their own time

Maybe Charlotte was right, and I was hopelessly addicted to breaking rules oprinciple.

Para usted que ya no la tiene, la libertad es todo. Para nosotros que sí, es meramente una ilusión.

Many's the man lost much just because he missed a perfect opportunity to say nothing.

Many's the man lost much just because he missed a perfect opportunity to say nothing (page 64)

Eat it, smoke it, stay up all night for it because the memories of the damage you wreak upon your body when you are young will sustain your spirit when you are old.