Restraint Quotes

It is the bad people who need to have principles to restrain them.

Just as the earth that bears the man who tills and digs it, to bear those who speak ill of them, is ...

What good is power when you're too wise to use it?

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

Nobody loves a policeman until he needs one.

Ask yourself the three things you must always ask yourself before you say anything. 1) Does this nee...

Other folk thought the Rage was simple bloodlust, a berserk savagery that neither knew nor cared wha...

Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, a...

The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen" -- which is the self-im...

Oh how can we, scarce mastering our passions, expect that youth should keep itself in check?

Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action; and bidding an ...

Her husband seemed to her now like a person whom she had married without love as an excuse.

It does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

The church is often called a killjoy for protesting against sexual license. But the real killing of ...

Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.