Quotes About Restraint

Children, bound by parental rules, are really free only in one aspect—emotionally. For a while, at least, they can cry or laugh or have tantrums unselfconsciously; they can have big dreams and unedited desires. Like many people my age, I don't feel free because I've lost touch with that emotional freedom.

She had closed him up in a mental box and he was supposed to stay there, dammit. Nothing more than a lovely fantasy she pulled out along with her vibrator from time to time.

Consider carefully before you say a hard word to a man, but never let a chance to say a good one go by.

Fewer candles flickered. Fewer words were spoken. Fewer breaths were taken.

When she'd skillfully turned it back towards the herd, Rebecca lifted an arm to wave at Jake, her smile vis­ible even from this distance. He felt a familiar tightening in his loins. How many times had he watched her ride across the Lazy A, experienced the same stirrings, and rid­den away so she'd never know what his true feelings were? He didn't have to ride away today. He could watch her graceful movements to his heart's content.

So he held the words tightly inside, safe from ridicule, safe from harm..

I want to see you again," Greystone said quietly. "I'm not certain that's wise. We are of different worlds, Your Grace. In yours, I am but one night and in mine you are destined to be merely a memory.

Il a l'âme bouleversée de ceux qui furent élevés à se taire.

My definition [of a philosopher] is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down.

What people mistook for safety was in fact captivity.

But we don't have to react. That's what I'm saying. A police force, like a government, should be above that. Just because we're provoked doesn't mean we have to act. -- Still Life

But sometimes that comfort was an illusion. Masquerading as protecting, while actually imprisoning.

A tone not often let out in public, preferring privacy.

Armand Gamache had no stomach to breach someone else's boundaries just because he could.

This was a walled world. With a pretense of control, without the reality of it.

I'll keep it all inside; festering, rotting; but I'm really a nice person, kind, loving. "Get out of my way, you motherfucker." Oops, sorry …

The population had a right to expect that people with a gun and a badge would also have self-control.

As she left my room I knew I should shut up. But you know when you should shut up because you really should just shut up...but you keep on and on anyway? Well, I had that.

Just because you CAN sing doesn't mean you should.

If you have written a clever and conclusive but scathing letter, keep it back till the next day, and it will very often never go at all.

Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that is good taste.

Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.