Quotes About Restraint

There are two important things for full success in life: 1. Don´t tell everything you know.

This is what I have to say about Bach's life's work: listen, play, love, revere – and keep your trap shut.

Wild inside; raging, writhing—yes, writhing was the word, writhing with desire. But outwardly he was hopelessly tame; outwardly—baa, baa, baa.

Half at least of all morality is negative and consists in keeping out of mischief.

Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness.

It isn't only art that's incompatible with happiness; it's also science. Science is dangerous; we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled.

Yes, Mustapha Mond was saying, that's another item in the cost of stability. It isn't only art that's incompatible with happiness; it's also science. Science is dangerous; we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled.

No, el verdadero problema es: <<¿Por qué no puedo hablar?>> O, ya que en realidad sé perfectamente por qué, la pregunta adecuada es ¿qué sensación experimentaría si pudiera, si fuese libre, si no me hallara esclavizado por mi condicionamiento?

Dar se putea si ca toata acea grija de a pune granite si restrictii sa fi ascuns in el o dorinta de a ajunge dincolo de orice regula, chiar si o singura data si cu orice pret – sa ajunga in fond la capatul unui anumit drum.

Un conto è non far niente. Un conto è non poter far niente-

We should be careful of the insults we fling at others, lest they return and land at our feet, newly minted to apply to those who had first coined them.

He knew that one should not punch people who annoyed one, although there was a case for it at times, a seemingly irresistible case.

That is important," said Mma Makutsi from behind her desk. "One does not want a lady who talks too much.

For once again she sensed that our heart is not always able to say what it wants to say and frequently has to content itself with less.

Hampus looked up again. Ulf saw that tears had appeared in his eyes. He wanted to reach forward and wipe them away, but that was not for a detective to do.

Nobody felt very much ashamed of anything anymore, Isabel thought. You could do what you liked and then speak about it at great length on a confessional television show and nobody would bat an eyelid. And while that revealed a healthier attitude when it came to dealing with things that were better unconcealed, or with things that should not involve shame at all, it also meant that one of the main reasons for social restraint had been removed.

En ook van jullie, jonge schonen, Die huiswaarts rijdt des avonds laat In koetsjes die hun driestheid tonen In onze Peterburgse straat, Wou mijn Jevgeni niets meer horen. Het feesten had hij afgezworen, Hij sloot zich op in huis, hij nam Verveeld een pen en was van plan Te schrijven - doch, hoe graag hij wilde, Nooit hield hem arbeid lang geboeid; Niets is er uit zijn pen gevloeid

Something happens to people when they're masked. They become too free, uncivilized. They may do anything.

There is nothing more galling to angry people than the coolness of those on whom they wish to vent their spleen.

Patience is not my dominant virtue. --D'Artagnan

Besides, the storm which rages in her breast was increasing in its violence, and she would have burst her prison walls if her body could have enjoyed, for a single instant, the same proportions as her soul.

But the kings of modern times, restrained by the limits of mere probability, have neither courage nor desire. They fear the eat that hears their orders, and the eye that scrutinizes their actions.

He's right: They have to put madmen with madmen.

Pigeon, your wings are no good.