Quotes About Restraint

A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

A man who is of 'sound mind' is one who keeps his inner madman under lock and key.

Power without abuse loses its charm.

Take eloquence and wring its neck.

I'll keep peace at all cost, even if I choke to death on my tongue.

Happiness is so awfully complicated, but freedom isn't. You're either tied down or you're not.

We can only go to the limits of ourselves. Anything more and we give too much away. Then we're not good for anyone.

I've let you run too wild and you know it," my father said when I went to him, asking to be left alone.

Your wife happens to work for me, so I'd say it is." I was sure Jock was going to lunge for Boy. He was much the taller and broader man and could have wrecked Boy without trying—but some tide inside him turned, like a switch going off, and he thought better of it for the moment. "You should be careful, Beryl," he said icily, without taking his eyes from Boy's face. Then he stormed away.

It's freedom you want, then." "Good God, yes. Don't you?" "I don't know. I want to be happy I suppose." "Happiness is so awfully complicated, but freedom isn't. You're either tied down or you're not.

We can only go to the limits of ourselves—I've learned that if nothing else. Anything more and we give too much away. Then we're not good for anyone." "She may have to sell the

How many human beings remain in this world, unvanquished and at liberty in plains like these? So few, so few. Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains.

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right time, but also to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

The chains and the silence, which should have bound her deep within herself, which should have smothered her, strangled her, on the contrary freed her from herself.

Her freedom was worse than any chains.

Te volveré loca —gritó su memoria cuando Tatiana se sentó a respirar la brisa salada de la eternidad en el alféizar de la ventana—. Andarás sonriente por la calle como una mujer normal, pero en tu interior te retorcerás como en la hoguera. No te liberaré, nunca serás libre.»

The restraints imposed by the former oppressed on their oppressors, so that the latter cannot resume their former position, do not constitute oppression . An act is oppressive only when it prevents men from from being more fully human... Behaviour which prevents the restoration of the oppressive regime cannot be compared with the acts by which few men deny the majority their right to be human.

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But one immediate thing can be done right now, and that is: lower the temperature. Any way you can, and everybody. Just lower it.

Careful, Sandi. You're about to let your bulldog mouth overload your bird-dog bite.

Matt felt vindicated. See . If he'd rushed things and let his passion get the upper hand he might not have learned whether she like beef.

Helping other people is a drug so dangerous that there is no cure short of total abstention.

There is nothing I need from the shop, and this is not the day for social profligacy.