Quotes About Restraint

human tongue is a beast that few can master. It strains constantly to break out of its cage, and if it is not tamed, it will run

Once you step into a fight that is not of your own choosing, you lose all initiative. The combatants' interests becomes your interests; you become their tool. Learn to control yourself, to restrain your natural tendency to take sides and join the fight. Be friendly and charming to each of the combatants, then step back as they collide. With every battle they grow weaker, while you grow stronger with every battle you avoid.

A veces puedes lograr más no haciendo nada.

Do not show all your cards. An air of mystery heightens your presence; it also creates anticipation.

If we limit our circle of action, we can give ourselves the illusion of control. The less we attempt, the less chances of failure.

Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.

Loial, son of Arent, son of Halen, had secretly always wanted to be hasty.

Only a fool thinks a lion or a woman can truly be tamed.

A man is the easiest animal to put on a leash, and the hardest to keep leashed. Even when he chooses it himself.

There was a limit to how many insults a man could swallow in silence.

El hombre es el animal que se somete más fácilmente a un yugo, y el más difícil de mantener sujeto a él. Incluso cuando él lo escoge libremente.

Si ello no basta para refrenarte, te prometo que haré que maldigas el primer beso que intercambiaron tu padre y tu madre.

Perrin laid a finger across her lips just as she opened her mouth. She bit him—hard—but she did not say anything.

The best way to keep a secret is to tell no one

be hostile unless you must, Moiraine had said, but above all never be overly friendly. Never be eager

He seemed composed now, too much so, a boiling teakettle with the lid strapped down and the spout plugged.

You must learn there is a time to speak all of the truth, and a time to govern your tongue. The least of the lessons you must learn, but important, if you mean to live long enough to wear the shawl of a full sister.

Only a fool thinks a lion or a woman can truly be tamed. Irritably

but there it was. Home was prison was home.

Simplemente no puedo ser amable. No puedo expresar mis sentimientos... Como si eso de alguna manera fuera revelarme demasiado... Exponerme. Así que siempre aparento ser tranquila, escondo mis emociones... Trato de ser fía y calmada. Tengo dificultad de abrirme con la gente.

Entre más seguridad busques, menos libertad tendrás, por eso todas las prisiones tienen celdas de máxima seguridad.

and all I have to remark is, damn the pies!

You appear to be a mass of contradictions, Dr Washburn said. There's a subsurface violence almost always in control, but very much alive. There's also a pensiveness that seems painful for you, yet you rarely give vent to the anger that pain must provoke.

Above all else, he had to show control, for what afflicted him was so uncontrollable. He had to appear completely lucid—sane within the boundaries of his memory.