Quotes About Restraint

I'm really not good with impulse control.

I used to think you were weak and just didn't fight back ... but now, honestly, I think you're actually pretty tough. It takes a hell of a lot of strength to not complain and lash out.

She didn't understand what it was like to be filled with a love so strong that it made your chest ache—a love you could only feel and not express. Keeping love buried was a lot like keeping anger pent up, I'd learned. It just ate you up inside until you wanted to scream or kick something.

Propriety's never been Adrian's strong suit.

Now get some clothes on before the women around here are driven into a frenzy." He gave me a mournful look. "I'm afraid that'll happen with or without clothes, my dear.

Perfection is an admirable thing to strive for. But so is knowing when to stop.

quienes se entregan a la venganza y se toman la justicia por su mano rara vez saben dónde está el límite...

I wanted to bring Lissa back, and I wanted to return to Adrian's arms again, return to his lips and all this life... "Hathaway! Good God, do I have to hose you down?

Papá- dije en voz baja-, siempre he hecho que sea una regla en mi vida no buscar peleas con niños, animales tiernos o ancianos ignorantes. Sin embargo, haré una excepción por ti si alguna vez tocas o insultas a mi esposa otra vez.

Depends. Did you stop at the drugstore, along with your trip to the wine store?" "Stop there? Hell, I bought that place out, Sydney. I'm having no repeats of last time.

I really don't care what you do, but maybe it'll keep you busy enough that you'll stop coming over here unannunced and throwing yourself at creatures of darkness.

She managed to look like a perfect, pissed-off Alchemist. Now I wanted to kiss her more than ever.

His gaze, blunted by the unnumbered procession of iron bars, uncounted as his softly padded steps. Smooth motion of blood and sinew turning in its own, small circle prescribed by bars and walls ...and skin, confined. Suddenly, without warning, a flash of light and image pierces the caged brain, and passing through its beating heart to stillness finds its way.

Just because the resources are there doesn't mean that they should be spent.

Trying to do more than the firm is capable of handling is tantamount to doing nothing.

You can capture a butterfly, and pin its wings down to study the colors and shape and design, but the moment that butterfly is still and you're able to make the most precise and detailed observations about that butterfly is the moment the butterfly can't fly anymore.

The moment you pin down the butterfly so that you can carefully study it is the exact moment in which that butterfly can no longer fly. It's the motion, the movement, the flying, that makes a butterfly a butterfly.

had gotten in trouble from talking too much.

Be wary of strong drink, it can make you shoot at the tax collector...and miss.

Never tease an old dog; he might have one bite left.

Must be yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please.

A monarch's neck should always have a noose around it—it keeps him upright.

Congratulations! A desire not to butt into other people's business is eighty percent of all human wisdom.

Mother had the social restraint of an ambassador.