Quotes About Restraint

I believe that tears should be very private, and no matter what issue or what situation, we should have a very dignified demeanor.

Technically speaking, you can build anything out of sand; it doesn't mean you do it.

As I mature as a chef, I no longer aim to pack multiple techniques and ingredients into a single dish. Realizing that restraint is more difficult, I find it often renders incredibly beautiful results.

Above all things, I must not get angry. If I do get angry I knock all the teeth out of the mouth of the poor wretch who has angered me.

These people are headstrong and if they feel the curb loosed but one link they will with bit in the teeth in one month run further out of the career of good order than they will be brought back in three months.

Don't be getting sloppy drunk and telling them dirty jokes.

In elementary school, we all say, 'If you don't have anything nice to say, then don't say anything at all.' In high school, we should say, 'If you don't have anything nice to say, shut your mouth.' So that's what I'm telling high schools all around the world.

As soon as you tell me to do one thing, I do the opposite. As soon as someone tells me not to get any more tattoos, I have this intense fire burning inside me to cover myself with them. I don't care if it's self-destructive. I just have that need to rebel.

In 'Dublinesque', Spanish writer Enrique Vila-Matas inverts the terms of Joyce's 'Ulysses' and tells the story of a man who, after living a hyperkinetic life like those of Odysseus and Leopold Bloom, resolves to never leave his room again and to reduce his mental activity to a minimum.

Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word 'satiety.'

I have a big mouth, and I have a temper, so that's not good for people. That's not good for executives.

I don't have a problem with my temper.

I have a temper, and it can flare from time to time, but as I've gotten older and more experienced, I think I use it in a controlled way. Oftentimes, I'm acting.

I have a pretty bad temper. But you have to really push me to see it. But everybody has their things.

It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing.

I've struggled so hard to reign in my temper because it actually terrifies me.

I have a temper, but I wouldn't call me abusive.

There's a line, players usually don't cross it and coaches usually don't cross it. Every once in a while you get a little temper tantrum on both sides, I certainly have had 'em. I'm not proud of those.

I've only lost my temper three times in my whole life.

I'm a bit of a hothead in certain circumstances, but you've got to temper it because your fans are there, and they've paid good money to see a show.

I've repeatedly tried to curb my temper.

I have such a temperament that I cannot do anything in excess.

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.