Quotes About Restraint

The Turks have dreary jails.

The silence is the worst part of any fight, because it's made up of all the things we wish we could say, if only we had the guts.

You're sad but you hold everything back...

Professors of the Dismal Science, I perceive the length of your tether is now pretty well run; and I must request you to talk a little lower in the future.

There is power in controlling something that can do so much damage-in controlling something, period.

No status change, we hold our fire.

You shouldn't say mean things to people before they kill you. It's being a sore loser.

He laughed. I suddenly wanted to laugh, to laugh with him, to sit here, or maybe outside in the rain, and just laugh with him. But I couldn't. I couldn't even smile.

Mr. Knightley seemed to be trying not to smile; and succeeded without difficulty, upon Mrs. Elton's beginning to talk to him.

A teacher should be sparing of his smile.

The best of all possible cages.' Ben stepped back to regard the job with a sad smile. 'What more can one ask?

If it's the lack of forbidden you're worried about. You could still forbid me to do things." "What kind of things?" She felt him smile against her mouth. "Things like this.

He gave me a small, secretive smile, a smile that said he knew many things but couldn't share them all at once.

A society in which men recognize no check upon their freedom soon becomes a society where freedom is the possession of only a savage few.

For the more a man limits himself, the nearer he is on the other hand to what is limitless.

What is art, anyway, except not pounding on walls.

no man is free who is not a master of himself, that the more liberties we enjoy, the more discipline we need.46 Laissez-faire

Let us do nothing through passion and ill temper.

A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people.

John Newton had written that he was relieved to have left the trade because "I considered myself as a sort of gaoler or turnkey . . . perpetually conversant with chains, bolts, and shackles." But to leave behind a career as a prison guard is one thing; to call for closing all prisons entirely another.

He spun out enough toilet paper to vandalize a house and carefully cleaned the seat.

Great labour, either of mind or body, continued for several days together is, in most men, naturally followed by a great desire of relaxation, which, if not restrained by force, or by some strong necessity, is almost irresistible.

foresight of our own dissolution is so terrible to us, and that the idea of those circumstances, which undoubtedly can give us no pain when we are dead, makes us miserable while we are alive. And from thence arises one of the most important principles in human nature, the dread of death, the great poison to the happiness, but the great restraint upon the injustice of mankind, which, while it afflicts and mortifies the individual, guards and protects the society.

By effectively proscribing all change from below without placing any restraints on the powers of rulers, such a system arrested normal development and created a situation in which, since absolutist rulers were unlikely agents of social, economic or political development, change could only be brought about by violent revolution.