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Quotes About Restraint

Never is a wolf more dangerous than when he is in a cage.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Officer After leaned across the seat toward me - which, under the circumstances, made me start back. 'I'm sorry I'm not allowed to beat the shit out of him for you.
~ Jennifer Echols
And somehow I had always resisted driving very slowly back and forth in front of his house. Willpower? No. I figured his front gate was equipped with security cameras and I would just be embarrassing myself. And this street was definitely not on the bus line.
~ Jennifer Echols
Show me you have one iota of self-restraint." "I will," I said quickly. "Stay away from her." "Okay." "Keep your hands off her." "I'll try." He scowled at me. "I will," I said. He wiggled his fingers at me. "And it might help public relations with Lori's pop if you put on a shirt and quit walking around here like sex on a stick.
~ Jennifer Echols
As I prefer to see it, there has never been an epic love story that involved significant amounts of self-control.
~ Jennifer Harrison
I wasn't built for running away from monsters. I wanted desperately to run toward them--track them down, kill them. Luckily, I was used to restraining myself, used to acting human even when I wasn't, and the human part of my brain reminded me that right now, preternatural beasties weren't exactly my primary concern. Someone had made a strong attempt at killing me this morning....
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Is that your professional take on the situation?" I kept my voice dry and caustic. This wasn't worth yelling over. It wasn't even worth a heated whisper.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Rebecca's been forbidden from seeing any of us." Xander grimaced. "Her mom said that the Hawthorne family takes and takes. She said that we don't play by any rules and don't care who we hurt. She blames our family for Toby's death." "And Emily's," Grayson added roughly.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
I've learned if you're ever angry enough to hit somebody, don't do it. Cool down and get yourself a pistol.
~ Elmore Leonard
That goddamn Louis, you see what he done? Put his cigarette butt in here. I'm gonna punch him right in his smokin' mouth." Max turned back to the form, glades mutual casualty printed across the top. He said, "I know how you feel. But when you hit an ex-con who's done three falls, they say you better kill him.
~ Elmore Leonard
La certitude d'avoir empêche de désirer.
~ Émile Zola
Her anger was rekindled. 'You see, I keep it to myself, but, oh! it's more than I can stand. Don't say anything, sir; don't say anything , or I'll explode!' He said nothing, and she exploded all the same.
~ Émile Zola
On the summit of a desolate rock on Devil's Island, far from the few palm trees on the shore, a small hut of four cubic yards was built for Dreyfus; night and day an inspector stood guard at the door, with strict orders not to address a word to him. In the daytime the prisoner was permitted to exercise until sunset in a small rectangular space of about two hundred yards, near his hut.
~ Émile Zola
And you, you worthless—' he broke out as I entered, turning to his daughter-in-law, and employing an epithet as harmless as duck, or sheep, but generally represented by a dash—. 
~ Emily Bronte
Oh! dreadful is the check—intense the agony— When the ear begins to hear, and the eye begins to see; When the pulse begins to throb, the brain to think again; The soul to feel the flesh, and the flesh to feel the chain.
~ Emily Bronte
Not anxious to come in contact with their fangs, I sat still; but, imagining they would scarcely understand tacit insults, I unfortunately indulged in winking and making faces at the trio, and some turn of my physiognomy so irritated madam, that she suddenly broke into a fury and leapt on my knees. 
~ Emily Bronte
and who can be ill natured and bad tempered when they encounter neither opposition nor indifference?
~ Emily Bronte
I have: the sea could be as readily contained in that horse-trough as her whole affection be monopolised by him.
~ Emily Bronte
Zindanda yatan için zindandaki örümceÄŸin çekiciliÄŸi, köÅŸkte oturan için köÅŸkteki örümceÄŸin çekiciliÄŸinden farkl?d?r.
~ Emily Bronte
Je sais, par instinct, que sa réserve provient d'une aversion pour les étalages de sentiment...Pour les manifestations d'amabilité réciproque. Il aimera, comme il haïra, sans en rien laisser paraître, il regardera comme une sorte d'impertinence l'amour ou la haine qu'il recevra en retour.
~ Emily Bronte
Susie, what shall I do - there is'nt room enough; not half enough, to hold what I was going to say. Wont you tell the man who makes sheets of paper, that I hav'nt the slightest respect for him!
~ Emily Dickinson
I never hear the word «escape» Without a quicker blood, A sudden expectation, A flying attitude! I never hear of prisons broad By soldiers battered down, But I tug childish at my bars Only to fail again!
~ Emily Dickinson
Asiente—y serás cuerdo— Disiente—y de inmediato serás el peligroso— Y te pondrán Cadenas—
~ Emily Dickinson
People are locked up in all sorts of ways.
~ Emma Donoghue