Quotes About Restraint

Why are you so secretive, Penney dear?' asked Barbie. 'Not secretive,' exclaimed Penney. 'It's just that people don't really want to know. My life hasn't been at all interesting, so why should I bore people by telling them about it?

He's in cotton-wool, pampered and cosseted, surrounded with hot-house flowers and picture papers. He's a prisoner in a gilded cage. I wonder how long it will be

Grace is what matters in anything - especially life, especially growth, tragedy, pain, love, death. That's a quality that I admire very greatly. It keeps you from reaching out for the gun too quickly. It keeps you from destroying things too foolishly. It sort of keeps you alive.

From a very early age, my wife and I told our son that there are times and places for everything. I told him, look, when you're in class, you have to be quiet and listen to your teacher, but when you go out to the playground, you can scream and be silly.

Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.

I have a number of vices, one of which is moderation.

Men are victims of their own impulses.

I will never go into a game aggressive because I will cost my team the victory if I am reckless. If I have got a personal vendetta with someone, or I don't like the way someone has done something to me in the game, I am just going to have to get over it.

Beatrix wished she were a swooning sort of female. It seemed the only appropriate response to the situation. Unfortunately, no matter how she tried to summon a swoon, her mind remained intractably conscious.

Take your bath, pet," he finally managed to say. "You're safe from me tonight. I may look, but I won't touch. Go on.

Damn you for saying I could survive without you. I'll have to punish you for that, cariad. For hours . . ." His mouth crushed over hers, dizzying and blatantly sexual, making promises that sent her blood racing. After

Don't tell me you don't trust me, Lucinda. For the way I exercised such commendable restraint last night, I deserve a medal, not suspicion.

You really should discard your inhibitions,' he said. 'They could get in the way of yielding to temptation.

Tighten the reins? I'll do my damnedest to make her as assertive as possible. Lysette should be terrified of me, yet she somehow has the courage to face me as an equal. I don't deserve such a gift. God knows I won't be fool enough to throw that away. I would slit my throat before asking that she pander to the rules of our quaint little society.

Anna had always lived like a convict, even as a child, perpetually preparing for her next breakout.

We've had this conversation already and watch your mouth, you fuckhead, there's a lady here.

That is control. Whether you want it or understand it.

Possession. Demand. Control. He wants it all. - denial

I've committed many despicable acts in my life—and if I enjoyed them enough, I would do them again—but I would never dream of spoiling the ending to a book.

I loved him so much. It didn't change all the reasons we couldn't be together, but it kept me returning to his body, kept my skin seeking his skin over and over again in the sad dance we did.

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if he kept his mouth shut.

If to break loose from the bounds of reason, and to want that restraint of examination and judgment which keeps us from choosing or doing the worst, be liberty, true liberty, madmen and fools are the only freemen: but yet, I think, nobody would choose to be mad for the sake of such liberty, but he that is mad already.

If you don't like your teeth; keep your mouth shut.

You're gonna sit down. You're gonna shut up. And by the grace of God Almighty, I ain't gonna kill you.