Quotes About Restraint

As the saying goes, in the hanged man's home don't mention the rope.

You need to suspend your reaction when you feel like striking back, to listen when you feel like talking back, to ask questions when you feel like telling your opponent the answers, to bridge your differences when you feel like pushing for your way, and to educate when you feel like escalating. Breakthrough

But she didn't. Didn't because she couldn't. None of those people had in any way harmed her or her family. And had she tried to hurt one of them, God would have somehow intervened.

In truth the prison unto which we doom ourselves no prison is

and barred windows. He

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.

I think "No comment" is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again. I got it from Sumner Welles.

The case is closed, Mr. Poldark. You will kindly step down." "Otherwise," said Dr. Halse, "we will have you committed for contempt of court." Ross bowed slightly. "I can only assure you, sir, that such a committal would be a reading of my inmost thoughts.

We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strength and scorns to misuse it.

He wanted to open the door and rush downstairs and smash their laughter down their throats. His hand went up and found the cord that switched on the light, and he took a few steps toward the door. Then it occurred to him that they weren't worth it.

One may as well go, as look into another man's house; because the eye may reach what the hand cannot.

Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.

Le poisson rouge ne peut ramener la complexité des océans à la quiétude de son bocal. (p.185)

She shouldn't speak her thoughts; nothing good ever came of speaking your thoughts.

and most importantly of all, don't let the audience intimidate or goad you in any way. Interaction is great. Retaliation is not. Don't let them rile you. Don't give them that satisfaction.

Recklessness, spontaneity didn't really suit her, she couldn't carry if off, the results were never what she hoped for.

Feelings sometimes grow too big to be kept within walls.

All of those words are so rude I wouldn't dream of putting them in this book.

Other folk thought the Rage was simple bloodlust, a berserk savagery that neither knew nor cared what its target was, and so it was when it struck without warning. But when a hradani gave himself to it knowingly, it was as cold as it was hot, as rational as it was lethal. To embrace the Rage was to embrace a splendor, a glory, a denial of all restraint but not of reason. It was pure, elemental purpose, unencumbered by compassion or horror or pity, yet it was far more than mere frenzy.

We were not restrained in our chairs, but there were so many guns on us that if I scratched my nose, the shooting aftermath would look like somebody had just spilled a huge lasagna here.

I wanted silence in the flowers, not to not say, but to not have the impulse of saying.]

If you mean to abuse me, let me finish my whiskey first.

I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even the enemy