personal restraint Quotes

We don't need to 'control' free speech, we need to control ourselves.

War was a time when personal desires were of necessity subjugated to a singleness of purpose …

I'm trying to lead a good Christian life, so there ain't too much spicy to tell about me.

I don't like to bring attention to myself. I don't like to make a scene.

I did not want to be a source of diversion from the Mondale-Ferraro ticket. It appears no matter what I did or tried to do, that would not be the case. I came to the conclusion that it was in the best interest of all to stand aside.

Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

As far as your self-control goes, as far goes your freedom.

I've been wanting to cut my hair now for at least a year. I've often fantasized about it but I haven't been able to do it because of the contracts that I've had.

At one point, I kind of looked in the mirror and said, 'You know, you're a mom. You're a wife. People count on you; you can't go off the deep end into this kind of crazy musical swirl.'

My position does not give me the liberty to exclude anything, but my mood tells me there will not be violence.

Women can less easily surmount their coquetry than their passions.

Just always be extremely respectful, was something that was drilled into me, which I think probably prevented me from having sex for a good seven years longer than it should have.

Asceticism without religion is just another way of cultivating peculiar sensations.

I think one of the things that writers and creative artists generally have to deal with is the censors that we have in our heads, the voices that we have that say you better not tell that and don't tell that, and people will think you're not a good girl, and your grandmother's going to be mad at you and all of those things.

Oh Lord, make me pure, but not yet.

My father was an insurance man and a small-time gambler. He was a good man, but he had an eye for the racehorses, and I saw how it used to bother my mother. I've never gambled a dime. Never, in all those years in Vegas.

I don't think I have ever been out of control.

I do realize the impulse to classify people by the food and art they consume is strong - sometimes I have to remind myself not to do that.

I felt so free in space, flying around and unrestrained by any social relationships, but my life since has changed a lot. Now I am extra-careful about what I say and do because everyone recognises me.

I will try not to panic, to keep my standard of living modest and to work steadily, even shyly, in the spirit of those medieval carvers who so fondly sculpted the undersides of choir seats.

Being good felt like a heavy coat, so I took it off.

I still have this image: I can't be controversial, I can't say things.

I define self-control, in the beginning of life, as the choice of achieving what I really want by doing things I really don't want to do. Once this becomes a habit, discipline becomes the choice of achieving what I really want by doing the very things I now want to do! I really believe that a disciplined life becomes a joy--but only after we have worked hard to practice it.

In real life, I know to filter all my jerk opinions and my jerk thoughts and my jerk desires.

How do I use my platform? How do you join in a way that is useful and not distracting and not shining a light on you?