Quotes About Restraint

I don't drink and haven't since I was younger so trying to remember what it feels like and act drunk was fun.

I'm not doing anything dumb; I'm not getting in trouble.

My children can't see many of the films that I've been in because I'm always either dying or taking my clothes off.

I'm not much of an eater.

I don't want to be seen in every second film. I don't want the audience to say, 'Oh no, she's in this one too.'

I am inclined to think that in one sense we have to feel more than others—yes, doubly more—since the very attempt to restrain natural promptings entails suffering. Imagine boys—and girls too—brought up not to resort to the shedding of a tear or the uttering of a groan for the relief of their feelings, and there is a physiological problem whether such effort steels their nerves or makes them more sensitive.

Lock your freaks.

If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late." ? Henny Youngman

În ciuda faptului c? port o masc?,nu sunt nesincer.Intui?ia mea vorbe?te repede ?i clar,sunt prezent în deplin?tatea fiin?ei mele.Masca este un filtru.Nimic din ceea ce este personal ?i care nu are nici o importan??,nu trebuie s? treac? prin ea.Tumultul din mine trebuie ?inut în frâu.

Before saying anything, always think to yourself, "Since my life is not a porno, will this creep her out?"

sounds uncomfortably like a prison.

A fast is better than a bad meal.

Perhaps the two of them wouldn't love each other so much if they were allowed to.

But, children, you should never letSuch angry passions rise;Your little hands were never madeTo tear each other's eyes.

It breaks my heart to think of childhood, everybody bigger and whacking and shouting and teaching you not to reach for anything or look at anything, and not letting up on you till you get over wanting to.

Speak less and say more

Man is free in his imagination, but bound by his reason.

A wise man cares not for that which he cannot have.

To explode or to implode – said Qfwfq – that is the question: whether 'tis nobler in the mind to expand one's energies in space without restraint, or to crush them into a dense inner concentration.

Often we think of patience in passive terms, as if the patient person is utterly submissive and half asleep.

When life gives you lemons, please, just don't squirt them in other people's eyes.

Licht holt uit. Een mens zit ook zo vol gaten. Een mens zou geslotener moeten zijn. Op den duur kan men niets meer binnenhouden.

It is usually considered good practice to examine a thing for one's self before echoing the vulgar ridicule of it. But in connection with the Bible, such scholarly restraints are somehow regarded as out of place.

Criticized for including humor in a sermon, Charles Spurgeon, eye twinkling, said: "If only you knew how much I hold back, you would commend me." Later