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Quotes About Restraint

How do you feel?" "I have a headache," Lee said. "My muscles are sore. I am dying of thirst. I have to pee. I am restrained. I'm blind. How are you?" "Better than you, I will admit
~ John Scalzi
She'd been caged for far too long.
~ John Shors
Don't make everyone know about your sadness.
~ John Steinbeck
They's times when how you feel got to be kep' to yourself.
~ John Steinbeck
Sometimes a sad man can talk the sadness right out through his mouth. Sometimes a killin' man can talk the murder right out of his mouth an' not do no murder. You done right. Don't you kill nobody if you can help it.
~ John Steinbeck
Why don't you beat him?
~ John Steinbeck
And just as there was a cleanness about his body, so there was a cleanness in his thinking. Men coming to his blacksmith shop to talk and listen dropped their cursing for a while, not from any kind of restraint but automatically, as though this were not the place for it.
~ John Steinbeck
Git, Ma said. They's times when how you feel got to be kep' to yourself.
~ John Steinbeck
She's about as wide open as a fist.
~ John Steinbeck
I mean, what is prison, really, except a good bar without the liquor?
~ John Waters
Brod's life was a slow realizaton that the world was not for her,and that for whatever reason,she would never be happy and honest at the same time.She felt as if she were brimming,always producing and hoarding more love inside her.But there was no release.
~ Unknown
Truth, said the Master, cannot be hid But he didn't say slap it in the face of my kids.
~ Johnny Cash
When asked about his apparent lack of anger toward the Chinese by an incredulous reporter at the time he won the Nobel Peace Prize, the Dalai Lama replied something to the effect that: "They have taken everything from us; should I let them take my mind as well?
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
If you let yourself be blown to and fro, you lose touch with your root. If you let restlessness move you, you lose touch with who you are. LAO-TZU, Tao-te-Ching
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
I am not much of a mind to touch
~ Stacey Jay
I never seem to have any level of restraint with you, woman.
~ Unknown
I couldn't just start killing people. That wasn't really my thing.
~ Unknown
My father taught me that only through self-discipline can you achieve freedom. Pour water in a cup and you can drink; without the cup, the water would splash all over. The cup is discipline.
~ Ricardo Montalban
I don't write about the intimate details of my cousins and aunts and uncles, and my mother and my father because it's not right to, for me.
~ Anne Lamott
Jesus was restrained by the Father to do only what the Father was doing, and You are to be restrained by the Spirit to do only what Jesus is doing!
~ Eric Ludy
Fear is a pair of handcuffs on your soul.
~ Faye Dunaway
What do you fear, lady?' he asked. 'A cage,' she said.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
What do you fear, lady?" [Aragorn] asked. "A cage," [Éowyn] said. "To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
Most anger stems from feelings of weakness, sadness and fear: hard to remember when one is at the receiving end of its defiant roar.
~ Alain de Botton