Quotes About Restraint

Liberty did not on any account mean license.

We find our energies are actually cramped when we are overanxious to succeed.

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.

Haluja lietsotaan sietämättömyyteen saakka ja sitten tehdään niiden toteuttaminen yhä mahdottomammaksi; se oli ainoa periaate, jolle länsimainen yhteiskunta perustui.

ask yourself, what would babbi do? waht WWBD? You know, the famous line in the movie Bambi if you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all.

That's because I've learned how to use it [smile], Woserit said. I don't pass it out like an old woman giving free milk to the village cats. It's something that must be controlled, and for you especially. You use it on anyone. You must learn to be more judicious.

Man was born free and everywhere he is in shackles. –JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU

I gritted my teeth. "I don't like you." "My heart is breaking." "Screw you." He shrugged and then grimaced as if the wound on his shoulder caused him massive pain. "We can do that, too, if you like, but I'll need to be unchained first. Then again, we can bring the chains with us if you're into that sort of thing.

we can't control what other people do,

rolled my eyes, shook my head and whispered, "Jesus, be a strait jacket.

She didn't know that my heart was a sandstorm waiting to open her skin in a desert of cuts. She didn't know the animal that waited in my stomach, silently shredding the walls. For her, my heart wore small white shoes and carried a purse, went to bed early. I wanted to shoot myself into her arms so she understood the need to crash cars with me, to tear up pavement because we were beautiful.

Gwynn, she was always talking about wanting to be drunk and honestly I did want to encourage that, I wanted to go to a bar with her and let all the stuff sobriety pushed down be released so I could catch it in my palms and finally kiss her. She was just so sad. Melancholy was a fleshy wave permanently cresting on her face, she had to speak through it when she talked.

It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

The journalists and their editors were totally ruthless and had no respect for the lives of the surviving victims. Publishing their names and addresses meant that the killer could have found them and killed them, because they could identify him.

But the urge is their own subconscious, which they can control, as proven by the sometimes long cooling-off periods during which they commit no murders, and by the fact that some of them refrain from murdering all their victims.

Hablen, sigan hablando —dijo Carvajal después de un largo silencio—; sigan hablando! —¡Hablemos de la libertad! —murmuró el estudiante. —¡Vaya una ocurrencia! —se le interpuso el sacristán—; ¡hablar de la libertad en la cárcel! —Y los enfermos ¿no hablan de la salud en el hospital?...

De cierto que no, y no por su bella gracia, sino porque la mujer es pájaro que no se aviene a vivir sin jaula, y porque pocos serían los leños que traigo a memeches para rompérselos encima —

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Little said is soonest mended.

Spare your breath to cool your porridge.

Tenho medo que a liberdade se torne um vício

Repression is not the way to virtue. When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. Only through freely chosen discipline can life be enjoyed and still kept within the bounds of reason.

When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. They

Saat olla kiihkeä ja tulinen, mutta kiihkosi ja tulesi on valauduttava kiinteään, vakuuttavasti taiteelliseen muotoon, muuten se merkitsee vain sohimista. Harkinnan ja rauhan alta kuultava kiihkeys tekee voimakkaamman vaikutuksen kuin holtiton tunteittensa purkaminen