Quotes About Restraint

The concerto's beauty was even more impassioned than he remembered, and also more piteous and quiet and restrained, and he clasped his hands together to absorb both the grief and joy in his body.

She held up her hands. "Stop, please. Allow me to hear one shocking sentence at a time.

A golden cage is still a cage.

You can teach a viper to eat from your hands, but you cannot take away how much it likes to bite.

I have given enough to them. I will not give them this.

Give me the honest asp, who strikes me if I trouble him and not before.

Patroclus. I have given enough to them. I will not give them this.

A true-made bow, Odysseus had called her. A fixed star. A woman who knew herself. "I asked her how she did it once, how she understood the world so clearly. She told me that it was a matter of keeping very still and showing no emotions, leaving room for others to reveal themselves.

When Telegonus came, I saw him eyeing me, waiting for another outburst. But I was pleasant. He should not be so surprised, I thought. I could be pleasant.

Whatever you do, I wanted to say, do not be too happy. It will bring down fire on your head. I said nothing, and let her dance.

Hati-hati terhadap kemarahan orang yang penyabar.

Thus like a Captive in an Isle confin'd, Man walks at large, a Pris'ner of the Mind

I look forward to a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose

We must face the fact that the United States is neither omnipotent nor omniscient, that we cannot impose our will upon the other 94 percent of mankind, that we cannot right every wrong or reverse every adversity, and that therefore there cannot be an American solution to every world problem.

Cu cat intelegi mai mult libertatea, cu atat o pierzi mai mult.

They did not kiss. They could not. How can you mercilessly imprison all natural sexual instinct for twenty years and then not expect the prisoner to be racked by sobs when the doors are thrown open?

Only those strong enough to keep silent about self are strong enough to be sure of self.

FALDER. [Almost eagerly] Yes, sir, but you don't understand what prison is. It's here it gets you. He grips his chest.

Weil es so viel zu sagen gab, sagten alle drei nichts.

An escape was impossible, so he lost unconsciousness when anyone entered the room.

I've learned to bite my tongue. My tongue has scars.

being nothing more than a prison. As Todd slowed the car, he said, "It looks like one of those

As he spoke—the warrant would have taken about ten minutes to read—Mary sat completely still.

The temptation to touch each other, even to bash their shopping carts together, was removed from them, and they all settled into being the kind of friends many old friends become: that is, they were friends when they heard from each other – or when, occasionally, they got together. And when they were not in touch, they did not think of one another.