Quotes About Restraint

Just because you put higher-octane gasoline in your car doesn't mean you can break the speed limit. The speed limit's still 65.

The cockiness of this bantam did not put off Porter, a senior colonel of infantry, large-boned in build and white-haired at fifty-two, whose restrained manner tended to obscure his knowledge of his profession and the firmness of his own character.

Everything, that can be seen, touched, explained, argued over, is to the imaginative man nothing more than a means, for he functions, by reason of his controlled imagination, in the deep of himself where every idea exists in itself and not in relation to something else. In him there is no need for the restraints of reason, for the only restraint he can obey is the mysterious instinct that teaches him to eliminate all moods other than the mood of fulfilled desire.

Anger should be a weapon to be used discriminately, not a weakness and a loss of control.

He found it hard to understand that the sea was a law unto itself, beyond anyone's control.

he wanted so much, but asked for nothing. Just pretended he was respectable. Pretended as if he was never gripped by animalistic savagery

Rabbis, priests and mullahs are, it seems, uniting to restrain free speech, lest any member of their collective flock should have his feelings hurt … The Rushdie affair is showing not just that some Muslims do not understand the merits of free speech. It shows that many Western clerics do not either.

Priest or not, I will have you whipped if you try to leave. Who's to stop me, who in all the world? Only the king, and he gives me what I ask. So who is to stop me? No one." "Then I tell you truly you must learn to stop yourself.

Peretur wanted to reach out and touch her hand, but Nimuë looked brittle enough to fall apart. So she just waited.

Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching the walls of his dungeon.

Wisdom consists in being moderate not out of horror of excess, but out of love for the limit.

For the trunk of individuality to grow, one must prevent freedom from making the trunk spread out into branches.

Man tends to exercise all his powers. The impossible seems to him the only legitimate limit. A civilized man, however, is one who for various reasons refuses to do everything he can.

A little patience in dealing with a fool helps us avoid sacrificing our good manners to our convictions.

One must not hope to be more than one can be.

He who cannot limit himself will never know how to write.

No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write.

Conscience is a dog that does not stop us from passing but that we cannot prevent from barking

i was a prisoner of events

He was no stranger to compassion: his heart was open to many good impulses, though his rank often prevented their manifestation.

En sus ojos se leía a menudo el ardiente deseo de tomar parte en alguna conversación interesante o de juntarse a otro grupo, pero se retenía al pensar que aquello podía parecer excesivo por su parte o demasiado familiar, y que con ello rebajaría su dignidad. Y por eso permanecía eternamente solo, en la misma actitud silenciosa, emitiendo de cuando en cuando un sonido monótono, con lo cual llegó a pasar por un hombre de lo más aburrido.

SILENCE you miserable cretins!

There are so many things that I want so badly to tell you but I just can't.

To work in the world is hard, to refrain from all unnecessary work is even harder.