Quotes About Restraint

Darwinians have always owed their readers a translation manual that would "cash" the teleological language which Darwinians avail themselves of without restraint in explaining particular adaptations, into the non-teleological language which their own theory of adaptation requires. But they have never paid, or even tried to pay, this debt.

Except for little children, who must be rightfully restrained by their parents, no one should find themselves being controlled by another person.

The art of love? It's knowing how to combine the temperament of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone.

Le dictionnaire est parfois pudique. Comme lui-même effrayé par la douleur.

he could finally give himself to emotions that he had held in check all during his early life.

I'm tempted to kill the general first, then his staff officers. Sometimes you just want to eat pudding early. All the same, I make myself wait.

he sensed that his own reticence would make it easier to restrain others.

I truly and deeply wanted to kill him. And I believe I could have done it, with nothing but my hands. But all of a sudden, out of nowhere, Peter had an arm around me. "Let it go, Kade," he was whispering very gently, though his arm was nearly crushing me. "Open your fists," he said, "and let go of the coals.

Promise this — never to raise your hand against a living creature, either to strike, pluck, or eat, without first recollecting its mother, who suffered for it.

I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

We do not have the God-given right to shape every nation in our image or as we choose.

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

Abstinence is approved of God.

To be silent when we are impelled to utter words injurious to God or to our neighbour, is an act of virtue; but, to be silent in confessing our sins, is the ruin of the soul.

Thankfully, God's restraining grace keeps even the worst of us from being utterly depraved. The worst people who have ever lived could've been worse.

There are two restraints which God has laid upon human nature, shame and fear; shame is the weaker, and has place only in those in whom there are some reminders of virtue.

The only way to shut out the voice of god and the angels is to act out addictively whether it's alcohol or food or drugs, or behaviors...

God sure esteems the growth and completing of one virtuous person, more that the restraint of ten vicious.

Although God is all powerful, He is unable to give more; though supremely wise, He knows not how to give more; though vastly rich, He has not more to give.

Follow the path of serenity. Why lose your temper if by losing it you offend God, trouble your neighbor and in the end have to set things aright anyway?

Thank God I've always avoided persecuting my enemies.

Never, dear gods. Never mess with mortals.

Be quiet, or I swear to God I'll take you right here

But God never seems capable of moderation