Quotes About Restraint

Past experience with fiscal austerity at home and overseas strongly suggests that it is best for the economy's long-run performance to restrain government spending rather than raise taxes.

The good governor should have a broken leg and keep at home.

It is better sometimes not to follow great reformers of abuses beyond the threshold of their homes.

Tolerance! The virtue that makes one bite his tongue so that he can tear out his hair.

I should stitch my mouth shut. Honesty is a compulsion that's damned me more than once. But I just can't hold it in anymore. The words build and explode out of me like an uncontainable sneeze.

Never throw the first punch. If you have to throw the second, try to make sure they don't get up for a third.

Cersei Lannister: I shall wear this as a badge of honor. Robert Barathon: Wear it in silence or I'll honor you again.

As far as you can avoid it, do not give grief to anyone. Never inflict your rage on another. If you hope for eternal rest, feel the pain yourself; but don't hurt others.

Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.

Hope is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective. A lot of hope is dangerous. A spark is just fine as long as its contained.

I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power.

Since I cannot govern my own tongue, though within my own teeth, how can I hope to govern the tongue of others?

I hope that each one of us will be a better husband or wife, kinder to one another, more thoughtful, more restrained in criticism, and more generous with compliments.

Hope is the leash of submission.

I cannot hope that what I have to say will be very interesting to many.

When I was young, I thought I was a bird at one time. Then they told me I can't fly, so I stopped flying.

How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial roof to prevent it looking up to the clear blue sky.

The fundamental misunderstanding of humanity is believing that we can achieve all our desires without limitation.

To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.

The tendency of humanity is towards the forbidden.

Language is one of the thin walls humanity has built up over centuries against its own bestial and destructive impulses.

You should never tell someone they have a nice dimple, because maybe they were shot in the face with a BB gun.

I saved a girl from being attacked last night. I controlled myself.

Don't get me wrong, I like to cuddle. But there is such a fine line between cuddling and holding someone down so that they can't get away.