Quotes About Restraint

I resist my temptations in order to feel i am free.

She had an overwhelming desire to tell him, like the most banal of women. Don't let me go, hold me tight, make me your plaything, your slave, be strong! But they were words she could not say. The only thing she said when he released her from his embrace was, "You don't know how happy I am to be with you." That was the most her reserved nature allowed her to express.

Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains.

He had hardly ever allowed himself the things that really gave him pleasure. Tradition and obligation had tyrannized over all his hours.

Louca para ser livre'. Palavras mortas. Ninguém se liberta só com palavras.

It was always better to say less.

The Bible said that a wise person must rein in his tongue. Not everything you wanted to say should be said.

Hoonie would have known enough not to want something he could not have—this forbearance was something that any normal peasant would have accepted about his life and what he was allowed to desire.

I always had to resist the urge to go to him like a wife, as if we'd already been a couple for a hundred thousand lifetimes.

on the long ride home, neither of us said anything. we were kites flying in opposite directions attached to strings held by one hand.

Any program that your mind interprets as punishment is one your mind is bound to rebel against.

One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness.

Do not answer with the answer of silence! Do not attack one who does not attack you.

Do not tell lies against your mother, the magistrates abhor it. The descendant who does what is good. His actions all emulate the past. Do not consort with a rowdy. It harms you when one hears of it. If you have eaten three loaves, drunk two jugs of beer, and the belly is not sated, restrain it! When another eats, don't stand there, beware of rushing to the table!

Don't brood on what has not yet come, nor rejoice at what has not yet happened. The patient man prolongs friendship; he who destroys a case will not be trusted.

You balance the budget by restraining the growth of government and encouraging the growth of the private sector.

He felt free -- fear is all that stands in the way of freedom

From the daimon which restrains us, roubriaô mari ôdam baabnabaôth ass adônai aphniaô ithôlêth abrasas aêôôy; Mighty Headless One, Deliver us From the daimons that restrain. mararraiô ioêl kotha athorêbalo abraôth, Deliver us: aôth abraôth basym isak sabaôth iaô" "He is lord of the gods;

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.

More caution and perhaps more restraint are necessary in breaking a fast than in keeping it.

is how each of them is making power easier to get and harder to use or keep.

That any gentleman should always keep In stern control this writing itch we're seized with; That he must hold in check the great impatience We feel to give the world these idle pastimes; For, through this eagerness to show our works, 'Tis likely we shall cut a foolish figure.

CLEANTE. Spoke like a true young man. Now just calm down, And moderate your towering tantrums, will you? We live in such an age, with such a king, That violence can not advance our cause.