Quotes About Restraint

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

I have to submit to much in order to pacify the touchy tribe of poets.

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit.

There is a measure in everything. There are fixed limits beyond which and short of which right cannot find a resting place.

Esta convicción era tan intensa, que Nébel jamás la había besado.

anarchists were perceptive when they argued that government was evil because it reined in individual liberties.

Marion fought back the urge to shove the candle in his face and did her best to broaden her smile...

God's command to have dominion over every living thing is a call to service, a test of responsibility, a rule of love, a cooperation with nature, whereas Satan's use of force for the sake of getting gain renders the earth uninhabitable. Brigham Young's views on the environment direct attention to man's responsibility to beautify the earth, to eradicate the influences of harmful substances, and to use restraint, that the earth may return to its paradisiacal glory.

The essential passions of the heart have found a better soil in which it may attain it's maturity; remain under less restraint and extended into it's natural state

For the first time, she did want more. She did not know what she wanted, knew that it was dangerous and that she should rest content with what she had, but she knew an emptiness deep inside her, which began to ache.

Take everything in moderation, including moderation.

This was defeat. This was failure; a quiet, ashen world. True humility and obedience, where the knee is bowed to the inevitable, the ring is kissed without pride or restraint.

The freefall sex? Grossly oversold. Everything moves in all the wrong ways. Things get away from you. You have to strap everything down to get purchase. It's more like mutual bondage.

There was a tight singing in her ears she had not heard since her childhood days in the community crèche: the tight singing noise you hear when you are trying not to cry.

What happens to sanity when you chain it to a wall?

Never follow any impulse to teach, however strong it might be. The command to teach is not felt as an impulsion.

You can keep going on much less attention than you crave.

Day and Night The night is long: do not shorten it by sleep. The day is fair: do not darken it with wrongdoing.

If you are covetous, you are a prisoner: If you are greedy, you will never be filled.

Nunca sigas ningún impulso para enseñar, sin importar lo fuerte que pudiera ser. El mandato para enseñar no se siente como un impulso.

No cuentes tus secretos a todo el mundo en esta sede central, Tierra. La hemos examinado bien. No había nadie a quien confiar secretos.

Restraint. The original purpose of cultivating restraint is so that eventually one will not need to have restraint.

Zoos are full, prisons are overflowing. Ah, my. How the world still dearly loves a cage.