Quotes About Restraint

The word 'religion' takes on a sinister cast when one examines its root, religare, meaning 'to bind,' which in turn means 'to hold, to make prisoner, to restrain.

A Mormon is a man that has the bad taste and the religion to do what a good many other people are restrained from doing by conscientious scruples and the police.

A Puritan is a person who lives in the fear that someone somewhere may be having a good time.

Three things are good in little measure and evil in large: yeast salt and hesitation.

A New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing anything it just keeps you from enjoying it.

The tongue is like a lion, if you let it loose, it will wound someone.

One of the basic causes for all the trouble in the world today is that people talk too much and think too little. They act impulsively without thinking. I always try to think before I talk.

Self confidence is the ability to exercise restraint in the face of disrespect and still show respect in response.

There is a raging tiger inside every man whom God put on this earth. Every man worthy of the respect of his children spends his life building inside himself a cage to pen that tiger in.

All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be, I am a dancer. But I don't think I would be on 'Dancing with the Stars,' mainly because I would be too shy.

When a court goes too far, it actually weakens our respect for judicial institutions.

How sick one gets of being "good," how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness.

To the old our mouths are always partly closed; we must swallow our obvious retorts and listen. They sit above our heads, on life's raised dais, and appeal at once to our respect and pity.

No man can possibly improve in any company for which he has not respect enough to be under some degree of restraint.

Don't talk much and save your dignity.

Sometimes I feel like a normal person. Sometimes I forget I'm on parole, that I'm not really free.

You strip away every ounce of civility in me, Selene" - Levi

Now all I know how to do is to grow dark in the evening. I'm happy with what I've got. And all I wish to say is my name and address, and perhaps my father's name, like a prisoner of war who, according to the Geneva Convention, is not required to say a single word more.

He who is conceived in a cage yearns for the cage.

if the speed of an aero equals zero, the aero is motionless; if human liberty is equal to zero, man does not commit any crime. That is clear. The way to rid man of criminality is to rid him of freedom.

when man's freedom equals zero, he commits no crimes. That is clear. The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom. And now, just as we have gotten rid of it (on the cosmic scale, centuries are, of course, no more than "just"), some wretched halfwits...

The way to rid man of criminality is to rid him of freedom.

The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom.

If a man wanted to put the entire universe in his breast, he couldn't do it with his chest stuck out.