Quotes About Restraint

Doing a budget means learning an ancient and powerful word: NO.

Wear your learning like your watch in a private pocket and do not pull it out and strike it merely to show that you have one.

Fed role - legal system, currency & defense, within its means.

There are things you don't do in life. You don't tug on superman's cape.

Life is the great indulgence - death the great abstinence. Therefore, make the most of life here and now!

Live your life without attracting attention.

There is a dazed panic and coiled restraint behind your every movement that will come out later through the flesh, the bone. Months from now you will wake sore and bruised, as if your body cannot forget what happened, and this is the only way it can express the trauma.

Married life teaches one invaluable lesson: to think of things far enough ahead not to say them.

Sometimes you can't be what you ought to be, you can't have what you ought to have.

I haven't got a lot of patience.

He saw the Constitution as the vehicle to keep ecumenical passions in check.

Being discreet has never been your strong suit.

the basic tools that have always produced amazing young adults: hard work, failure, simplicity, gratefulness, restraint and discipline.

I'm trying to teach my son mercy and restraint," Dylan said to Crosby, his voice guttural. "Because I don't have any myself.

Like good sex, driving the car was a study in exhilarating restraint and control.

he politely didn't lock her in a basement and

the Spaniard was looking at her bare legs, he was going to accidently-on-purpose hit him when Snow started misbehaving.

She moistened her lips. "I only thought, that is, I am so confined, so endlessly guarded. I sometimes feel desperate to be free of it. It seems that there would be no need for such close watch if I were no longer… chaste.

They guard my chastity every waking minute as if it were purest gold. It's unbearable!

Laurel, I hope you find something like this, a little self-destructive habit you can turn to every once in a while, when you're tired of being good. It will keep you sane.

Maybe his quietness masked a great and boiling soul.

She wanted to scream her grief to the skies and wail like an animal, but she couldn't.

Lots of things are true. Doesn't mean you can go round saying them

Lots of things are true. Doesn't mean you have to go around saying them.