Quotes About Restraint

Always maintain your composure.

I call on the people of Tripoli to restrain themselves and not get drawn into conflict with anyone.

I don't like to get involved in conflict.

There's the bond of a connection and the bond of bondage... When you are connected to somebody, everything each one does affects the other, and it's a kind of bondage. You're not as free as you would be if that person wasn't in your life.

Living with a conscience is like driving with the brakes on.

With 'Law & Order,' I had to be very conscious of what I was doing. I didn't want to show too much character.

I think we have erred on the side of being too conservative so far, to tell you the truth.

It seems to limit you; when you're working in an office, you're a creature in a small cell under somebody's supervision and surveillance.

With the war and everything that's going on, unless you're Susan Sarandon, the best route is to keep your mouth shut. For me it is, anyway!

I don't deny myself anything - I do whatever I want in the moment - but I feel like moderation is the thing that can really sustain you for the rest of your life.

I admit I was drinking a Guinness... but I did not swallow.

I just didn't want to get out there anymore; I didn't want to get back into what I call 'the swamp.' And the other reason why is I don't think it's good for the presidency for a former president to be opining about his successor. President Obama's got plenty of critics - and I'm just not gonna be one.

I get really bad road rage, and if my daughter is in the car I have to bite my lip and try not to swear.

There was a rule for the under-13s at Middlesbrough that you were never allowed to swear. If you did, the manager had to take you off as punishment. But I couldn't stop myself. I'd just get frustrated, I guess.

I would always rather do something in moderation than simply swing from one extreme to another.

You have to avoid what I call the 'smartest boy in class syndrome,' which is, just because you know it, you don't have to tell it. I often will go through a manuscript crossing stuff out, and say, 'This is just too much,' you know?

In Syria, a progressive foreign policy would have shown military restraint while pumping up our ability to gain political leverage over Syria's benefactors and providing humanitarian funding to make sure that anybody that wanted to leave Syria could.

And many thanks to you, Mrs. Blackwell, for bringing the weaknesses of our cell locks to our attention. She broke out twice," the officer informed Saxon. "We finally had to tie her up.

no need for you to get involved, Elenita.

Without going into any details, he

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us worthy evidence of the fact. —George Eliot

When economic power desires to be left alone it uses the philosophy of laissez faire to discourage political restraint upon economic freedom. When it wants to make use of the police power of the state to subdue rebellions and discontent in the ranks of its helots, it justifies the use of political coercion and the resulting suppression of liberties by insisting that peace is more precious than freedom and that its only desire is social peace.

La curiosité l'avait désormais enchaîné.

Whence then come my errors? They come from the sole fact that since the will is much wider in its range and compass than the understanding, I do not restrain it within the same bounds, but extend it also to things which I do not understand: and as the will is of itself indifferent to these, it easily falls into error and sin, and chooses the evil for the good, or the false for the true.