Quotes About Restraint

I read and talked into the microphone and was gracious to the local rich, the English faculty and the college president, and the students with their clear skin and shining eyes and inviting innocence, like a blank surface one wishes to scribble obscenities on.

In the South, workers would be tittyweeping that someone had broken the "rules" by giving away government property. But here, discipline reigns

the law of parsimony.

Let us be as the Cage has never been able to make us. Let us now all at once face forward in our boxes, still and silent as nightmares. We did.

Being humiliated only makes it easier to restrain you. And being restrained makes it possible to torture you, for the unrestrained cannot be tortured; the unrestrained can only be fought. So to be restrained is to be unable to fight, and to be humiliated is to be readied for torture. To know you have been readied for torture is to await torture. And to await torture is, itself, torture.

as for those of you who are complicit, it is not you that I want to destroy, but your shackles

It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers to pretend to watch over the economy of private people, and to restrain their expense…. They are themselves always, and without any exception, the greatest spendthrifts in the society.

Fish held the silence for so long that I had to restrain myself from prodding her. That's never a good idea. Sometimes people hesitate because they don't have the courage to come out with whatever needs to be said; other times they desperately want to speak but can't find the words. Jabbing them prematurely tends to shut them up. Outwaiting them gives them the time to say more than they intend.

What use would wings be to a man bound in iron fetters? They would only drive him to even greater despair.

We stayed mute and disloyal because we were afraid I would have touched my fingers to where your breasts had been but we never did such things

I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it.

I can tell you this: I'm an extremely passionate individual. I try to be careful how I display it because you never know how people are going to take it.

If the Italian is the most passionate lover in the world, it may be because he is the most restrained. Rigid convention denies him all contact with the lovelier girls, who never are free from chaperons.

My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet.

Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.

Patience means restraining one's inclinations.

I've said my patience is not infinite.

I've learned patience.

Patience was not my strong point.

I haven't got a lot of patience.

I've got to really try and manage my patience out there.

There comes a time when you have to exercise patience.

I have to say that to myself a lot - to be patient.

Our duty is to be patient.