Quotes About Restraint

I have come to regret being right about anything anymore.

Best not to say what you think in order to give offence, obviously, not if you're nice, as we are. Whatever you say, though, someone will feel offended. On that question, I rather side with the Stoics, The Stoics held that offence has to be taken, it can't just be given, so we should try not to take it in the first place.

I can not trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.

The reason for not going out and sinning all you like is the same as the reason for not going out and putting your nose in a slicing machine: it's dumb, stupid, and no fun.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.

You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.

You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

He was sorry, genuinely sorry, for the pain she was in. Yet the revelation had caused certain other feelings—feelings he usually kept under tight rein, considering them both misguided and dangerous—to flex inside him, to test their strength against their restraining bonds.

Least said, soonest mended,' she always says. That and 'least seen, most admired.

Le hemos ofrecido una falsa impresión del desenfreno del proletariado

know not what can ease my pains, Nor what it is I wish; The passion at my heart-strings strains Like a tiger in a leash.

Many a serious thinker has been produced in prisons, where we have nothing to do but think.

But the 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 tun wild and cause you grief.

Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much.

Burke, unlike the Mill of On Liberty, had a true understanding of the nature of men, and balanced liberty with restraint and order, which are, in truth, essential to the preservation of liberty.

I took good care not to tell anybody that I had resolved never to love without restraint a man who would not return this love in full; such was my disposition that my heart would have belonged entirely and without reserve to a husband who loved only me.

ventured a couple of negative comments about her father, and never tried it again. "It was

But two things might restrain a man in the Great Debauch: malaria and guard duty.

My trouble seems [. . .] to be to bring together in me the Puritanical iron hand of constraint and the gushes of pure wildness. One can't survive or write without both but they need to come to terms.

Hope is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective. A lot of hope is dangerous. A spark is just fine as long as its contained.

We realize we can't go around saying and doing what we're actually thinking and feeling. If we all did that, life would be a lunatic asylum. Indeed, that's how you know you're talking to a lunatic. Lunatics are those poor souls who have lost their inner communication and so they allow themselves to say and do exactly what they are thinking and feeling and that's why they're mad.

You can't control other people's behaviour, but you can conrol your responses to it.

I'm an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.