Quotes About Restraint

She tried to allow herself only one biting remark an hour, and she had already overstepped her allowance.

The unsatisfying thing about practicing restraint was that nobody knew you were practicing it.)

Do not call attention to yourself with silly gestures. Do not believe that the joy of everyone in your proximity depends on you. Do not fear that one of them might be bored, in pain, or yearning for a list of famous local architects that you must volubly supply. Do not disgorge personal data to invoke an aura of mutual trust. Do not ask anyone their dearest wish or what they would like their last meal to be. Do not try too hard. Do not riff.

But what can I do? I can—she leapt into the abyss—join a ladies' club. There! That's respectable! That's something I can do! I can be ladylike. Why, I can be more ladylike than anyone, as long as I can keep myself from saying the first thing that pops into my mind.

I wish over the years I had kept my private life private and my professional life a little more professional.

I try to keep a low profile in general. Not with my art, but just as a person.

I know girlfriends of mine who, when they were approaching pregnancy and starting a family, consistently went through a period right beforehand that was a last gasp kind of thing where they just wreak havoc. They fall apart, in a profound way, because there's some awareness that that's the last time they can do that for awhile.

Being bridled, or yielding obediently to restraint, is necessary for our personal growth and progression.

I'm innately conservative, and painting is an ideal place to exercise a progressive conservatism. I operate well within limits.

Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.

My goal is not to get on 'Dancing With The Stars.' I can promise that.

I don't have a need to promote myself.

I just don't want to talk about my personal life. I feel like it's mine, I'm not trying to promote it. It's nice to have things that are your own, that you value enough that you don't have to use to sell a movie.

As long as I manage investments properly and don't spend recklessly, Tumblr has given my family a strong safety net and given me the freedom to work on whatever I want. And that's exactly what I plan to do.

The reason why I've been keeping private for the longest time ever here, I've always wanted to protect my wife's privacy. I don't like - I didn't want to put her picture all over the news. I just wanted to keep her private.

I always feel like there's some behaviour that we're all capable - we have our inhibitions protecting from indulging in certain appetites or developing certain appetites.

I think it is more a cautiousness that protects me from enthusiasm about things. I tend not to get excited. People perceive it as a scowl, which is fair enough.

The American people have made clear that they want justices who have proven records of judicial restraint - exactly the kind of justices that Obama and Biden cannot abide.

For it is the part of a wise man to practice restrained good temper.

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

To show too much joy in a place such as this would be unseemly but, as he padded toward her, his tail was extended in a manner which would make wagging possible should all go as expected.

Love was central to Victorians' sense of self because through it they learned to know not only their partners but themselves. Love was a template for authentic, albeit restrained, expression of their inner self, but it was also a means to attain spiritual perfection, as was made clear by the consistent association of the romantic discourse with the values and metaphors of religion.

Wanting to fall in love and being totally unable to trust, hungering for connection and always finding it claustrophobic.

Ought we to be drunk every night? Sebastian asked one morning. Yes, I think so. I think so too.