Quotes About Restraint

Hold your tongue, Ma!' said the young crab, a little snappishly. 'You're enough to try the patience of an oyster!

Come on, Father. Stop me. Tell me to behave, to go to hell, something, anything.

People want to be safe, not free.

Isaiah thought of Memphis in love with Theta and Theta in love with Memphis, and he understood for the first time just how dangerous their love was for them. Even though they were supposed to be free, they weren't.

They will drink their tea. Weight their words. Wear hats against the sun. squeeze their minds into corsets, lest some errant thought should escape and ruin the smooth illusion they hold of themselves and the world as they like it.

Never run if you can walk, never walk if you can stand, never stand if you can sit, and never sit if you can lie." "Never talk if you can listen

You don't just... just float someone in the air like that! she shouted, so beside herself she was almost frenzied. Why? Is there some human law against it?

By God, if I were twenty years younger," he thundered, "I'd drag you outside and horsewhip you!" Steven

Steven's patience had been taxed to the limits. He'd never in his life laid a hand on a female in anger, but he was sorely tempted to haul this one off to the woodshed and blister her backside.

Life would be only what they chose to make it, grappling within the straitjacket of society

Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned.

Man can be chained, but he cannot be domesticated.

Ordinary society is like a paperweight on you: it won't allow you to fly.

Nothing has ever been more insupportable for a man and a human society than freedom. –The Grand Inquisitor

Self restraint in speech, food, entertainment and vanity are the most essential fundamental of spiritual growth.

When you let go of your attention for a little while, do not think you may recover it whenever you please.

Before you speak, my friend, remember, a spiritual man contain his anger. Angry words are like slap in de face.

The more intense a spiritual leader's appetite for power, the more he is concerned to limit it to others.

I'm just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too.

The wise man tells not what he knows. It is not prudent to sport with one's head by revealing the king's secrets.

Don't talk too much or too soon.

I don't have a life, I really don't. I'm as close to a nun as you can be without the little hat. I'm a golf nun.

I felt better being in the background. That's the way I like it.

Baxter knows a lot more than I do, I told her. Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of it.