Quotes About Restraint

I'd been someone else in a different world I'd've done something different, but I was myself, and the world was the world, so I was silent.

I likewise felt several slender ligatures across my body, from my arm-pits to my thighs. I could only look upwards; the sun began to grow hot, and the light offended my eyes. I heard a confused noise about me; but in the posture I lay, could see nothing except the sky.

The chains that held my left leg were about two yards long, and gave me not only the liberty of walking backwards and forwards in a semicircle, but, being fixed within four inches of the gate, allowed me to creep in, and lie at my full length in the temple.

girt round my neck, my hands, my body, and my legs.

when put into the balance with a refusal to gratify their passions.

This sin-stained planet would have ripped apart at the seams long ago were it not for the restraining hand of God.

There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

Je vais te parler" n'est pas une phrase facile à entendre. On parle, ou on ne parle pas, c'est comme ça. Si on pense à parler, si on avertit qu'on va parler, c'est qu'existe trop fort ce qu'on ne dira pas.

I don't have to blow up everything I see... I just like to.

Do not divulge any fact that will help nobody.

Même si tu te trouves en position de force, ne le montre pas, et surtout ne t'en sers jamais!! Le fait d'avoir l'autorité ultime et la responsabilité directe de l'accès à une source d'eau ou à une rivière, ne t'autorise pas à priver les autres d'eau.

Hayat böyledir, tam da bizi hapseden nesnelere faydas?z bir ÅŸekilde sar?l?r?z.

They offered me freedom as a gift. She did. Who told her she had it to offer? I know the freedom you are talking about. I had that freedom the moment I was born. When these people say you belong to me, I own you, it is like the passing of the rain, or the setting of the sun at the end of the day.

Life's like that, clinging futilely to the very objects that imprison us.

This world's anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.

There are those people who can eat one piece of chocolate, one piece of cake, drink one glass of wine. There are even people who smoke one or two cigarettes a week. And then there are people for whom one of anything is not even an option.

Far from being forced or compelled (to join), he declared he would kill himself if he was restrained, and even threatened his Mother, who was then on board as a passenger

Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.

What is hell other than a realm in which unholiness works without restraint in body and soul?

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

But I learned that ignorance is never revealed if one holds one's tongue. To speak is what removes all doubts.

dearest, can you tell, I am trying to love you less.

How good it is to love live things, even when what they've done is terrible, how much we each want to be the pure exonerated creature, to be turned loose into out own wide open without a single harness of sin to stop us.