Quotes About Restraint

The surest test of discipline is it's absence.

The difference between the insane and the not-insane person is that the latter doesn't do or say the things he thinks.

A man told me that in the Talmud it says there are things that can be said to many people, others to few people, and others to no one. To which I would add: there are certain things I don't even want to tell myself.

Be to, kaipgi b?si susaistyta su vyru, jeigu neleisi jam tav?s ?kalinti? Kaip uždrausi jam sum?ryti savo keturias sienas jos k?nui ir jos sielai? Ar ?manoma k? nors tur?ti neleidžiant tur?ti tav?s?

To live through the days sometimes you moan like deer. Sometimes you sigh. The world says stop that. Another sigh. Another stop that. Moaning elicits laughter, sighing upsets. Perhaps each sigh is drawn into existence to pull in, pull under, who knows; truth be told, you could no more control those sighs than that which brings the sighs about.

To write all things in a book is to leave a sword in the hands of a child.

The New England conscience, I have often said, does not stop you from doing what you shouldn't -- it just stops you from enjoying it.

The world can only be limitless and boundless if you let it control yourself and rule over you.

There's so much I should say, so many things I should tell him, but in the end I tell him nothing. I cut a line and my losses, and I light a cigarette.

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.

Men must know their limitations.

A man's got to know his limitations.

Don't you think, that there are very few men who know, without raising their voice or changing their tone, to say...what has to be said?

Do not speak of what you do not know.

just because you can you does not mean you have to

It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.

Prävention, die das Recht konsumiert, hat den Zug zu Totalität und Exzessivität.

Wer ein Feindstrafrecht zu brauchen glaubt, der glaubt nicht an die Überlegenheit des Rechtsstaates über den Fundamentalismus.

O ye people, earth-born folk, ye who have given yourselves to drunkenness and sleep and ignorance of God, be sober now,cease from your surfeit, cease to be glamored by irrational sleep!

I was all too aware that there's an unspoken law that you should never start to cry if you have too many reasons to do so. I told myself that my tears were due tot he cold, and I believed myself.

The hunger angel approached everyone, without restraint. He knew that where things can be unloaded, other things can be loaded. In terms of mathematics, the results could be horrifying: if each person has his own hunger angel, then every time someone dies, a hunger angel is released.

Man's chiefest treasure is a sparing tongue.

You can strike, or you can not strike, and if you choose to hold back the blow, you can still feel inside you the resonance of the omitted thing.

He feels as if he is floating, and she is weighting him to earth; he would like to put his arms around her and his face in her apron, and rest there listening to her heartbeat. But he doesn't want to mess her up, get blood all down the front of her.