Quotes About Restraint

Perhaps the only comfort which remains Is the unheeded clanking of my chains, The which I make, and call it melody.

I heard that Harry Nilsson had died. The secret to being a successful hellraiser, it seemed, was to stop raising hell before hell razed you.

He did not, however, because he had long since learned that getting angry back was a capital crime that would elicit the most savage retaliation.

To have the ability to destroy all and not to do it was one of the hard tests humanity passed -- but only just -- in the middle of the twentieth century.

We all have to recognize—no matter how great our strength," Truman declared, "that we must deny ourselves the license to do always as we please.

An obligation is a rope ... by which we are tied. Dwell on that image. Here am I with a rope around my neck. We must allow for the other end of the rope. You are holding that. I am under an obligation to you: the picture is of this rope between us, and you in control; the rope is round my neck but in your hand.

Eat, drink, and couple like minks, for tomorrow you could come down with one hell of a pony drip, and Mrs. Lee will ban you from the premises.

There are things in your life that you don't want to do that you will have to do. You cannot always do and go what and where you please. That is not how life works. This is one of those times when you must do and go what and where you do not want to do or go.

Man is born free and is everywhere in chains

Far may it be from my lord, that while a tyrant is restrained by fear after cutting down only two or three men, the sword of him who is the master of all Christian mercy should run riot for the slaughter of so many souls.

While I was now fairly demoralized, as well as aflame with the prospect of an hour in his daughter's arms, the thought of using his car to debauch his bourgeois paradise was a perfidy at which I drew the line.

He'd never made a move on her in those three weeks.

Joey almost smiled at how the spy chief's jaw muscles were working hard to keep his expression neutral.

Only one reliable force stands in the way of the power of the strong over the weak. Only one reliable force forms the foundation of the concept of the rule of law. Only one reliable force restrains the hand of the man of power. And, in an age of power-worship, the Christian religion has become the principal obstacle to the desire of earthly utopians for absolute power.

The springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained.

But if you continue to restrain them and refuse to let them go,

After Moses had given an order, they sent a proclamation throughout the camp: “No man or woman should make anything else as an offering for the sanctuary.” So the people were restrained from bringing more,

“Let us pass through your land; we will stay on the main road. We will not turn to the right or to the left.

He may receive no more than forty lashes, lest your brother be beaten any more than that and be degraded in your sight.

I told him that I would judge his house forever for the iniquity of which he knows, because his sons blasphemed God and he did not restrain them.

With these words David restrained his men, and he did not let them rise up against Saul. Then Saul left the cave and went on his way.

On hearing that Nabal was dead, David said, “Blessed be the LORD, who has upheld my cause against the reproach of Nabal and has restrained His servant from evil. For the LORD has brought the wickedness of Nabal down upon his own head.” Then David sent word to Abigail, asking for her in marriage.

Then Joab blew the ramís horn, and the troops broke off their pursuit of Israel because Joab had restrained them.

For the LORD humbled Judah because Ahaz king of Israel had thrown off restraint in Judah and had been most unfaithful to the LORD.