Quotes About Restraint

you have the right to feel however you like, but not the right to act however you want.

Being old enough to know better but still too young to resist mostly sucks.

Diplomacy is the art of knowing what not to say.

How was she to endure knowing he was in town these next two weeks, without throwing herself into his arms again? She would hide in her home and not come out until the day of the wedding. Yes, that was the only solution.

The Grand Master felt surging within him one of those half-crazy rages which had so often come upon him in his prison, making him shout aloud and beat the walls. He felt that he was upon the point of committing some violent and terrible act – he did not know exactly what – but he felt the impulse to do something.

Only the insane take themselves seriously.

Alles Heilige ist ein Band, eine Fessel.

The man who is set free is nothing but a freed man, a libertinus, a dog dragging a piece of chain with him: he is an unfree man in the garment of freedom, like the ass in the lion's skin.

Charisma knows only inner determination and inner restraint…. The charismatic leader gains and maintains authority solely by proving his strength in life.

Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have.

Wealthy old woman + devious imagination - restraint = Aunt Agatha

An English gentleman is someone who knows exactly when to stop being one.

What does wine do to men?" "It makes them more foolish at a higher volume.

Passion ought to be tempered with restraint.

Ali mu ne dam zadovoljstvo da se opere mojom grubom rije?i, toliko nije zaslužio.

Stao je u mrtvu vodu. Lijeno je mislio: more - staza bez prepreka, put bez granica, majka širine, otac slobodnog lutanja. Oti?i ?e morem u nepoznato. Jednom. Ostavi?e ovu vrelu kamenu liticu na kojoj i gušter izdiše, i ovu sprženu tvrdu travu bez sokova, oko koje se samo guje uvijaju, i ovu ružnu ku?u u kojoj radost zamire, i ovaj mrtvi kraj u kojem plemenitosti nema, ni ljubavi, ni želje ?ak.

Znaš li šta sam mislio dok si govorio? Kako neki ljudi mogu da kažu sve što ho?e, i možeš da primiš ili ne primiš, ostaješ miran. A neki u jesnu rije? unesu sebe, i odjednom se sve zažari, niko ne ostaje miran. Osjetimo da se nešto važno dešava.

People around here didn't waste words; language was a tool, not a treat. You didn't roll it around on your tongue, revel in it.

But maybe I cared too, because sometimes I found myself wondering about those things. I just didn't show it. It was high school; you didn't show things.

In this life," she said, crossing these glorious gams, shimmering in the filmy light, "you can't let your guard down. If you can control yourself, you can control everyone else.

Again, that sense of being stifled, cloistered, removed from the world and locked away.

Sometimes the things we want to say the most are the things that should never be said.

It was all about control, in the end, and I had it.

Whatever task you're set, find some way to love it. Sunny wondered if Josiah's words applied to standing with a face of stone so the person in front of her wouldn't know how much she wanted to scream.