Quotes About Restraining Yourself

#1. Patience means restraining yourself. There are seven emotions, Joy, anger, anxiety, adoration, grief, fear, and hate. If a man doesn't give way to these, he's patient. I'm not as strong as I might be but I'm patient.

James Clavell

#2. I try to play characters who are different from myself, so I feel like this character is someone who is really different. I actually think that if I did what he did in this movie, I would get a restraining order put against me.

Ryan Gosling

#3. He shook his head in mock sympathy. I tell you, Sage. Sometimes I think I am the one who needs to take out the restraining order on you.

Richelle Mead

#4. Frank took my hand and pressed it to his lips. Considering that my knuckles were bruised from punching him in the face, it should've come with the romantic gesture of the year award. Or a restraining order.

Nicole Castle

#5. Mastering self-control ... the act of restraining one's emotions is the true key to success.

Timothy Pina

#6. Restraining, saving, assuring your checkbook balance ... what does all taht amount to? If I go broke one day I'll just take out loans

Novala Takemoto

#7. The way he looks at me, and touches me all the time ... It's like he's restraining himself from hog-tying me and dragging me out to the woods.

Kelly Oram

#8. If he told me something about the glories ahead for the Prince of Arrow I would have trouble restraining myself. If he suggested I might be born in the year of the goat then there would be no restraint!

Mark Lawrence

#9. Mom offered to go over and smooth things out, but I think that Dad and I both realized that given her temper, her diplomatic mission might end up with a restraining order against our family.

Gayle Forman

#10. A domestic violence advocate can help you discern your level of risk from your abuser and whether you should get a civil restraining order.

Caroline Abbott

#11. It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas.

Edward Bond

#12. But we're not being educated in how to be, only in how to accomplish. So it's all about acquisition, about getting stuff we don't have ... As soon as you realize it's a thought pattern, you can write yourself a restraining order.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#13. There is a large wooden cross like an X fastened to the wall facing the door. It's made of high-polished mahogany, and there are restraining cuffs on each corner.

E.L. James

#14. Does Patch have a restraining order against him?' he read. 'Is Patch a felon?'
'Give-me-that!' I hissed furiously.
Patch gave a soft laugh, and I knew he'd seen the next question. 'Does Patch have a girlfriend?

Becca Fitzpatrick

#15. Thankfully, God's restraining grace keeps even the worst of us from being utterly depraved. The worst people who have ever lived could've been worse.

Tullian Tchividjian

#16. I folded the restraining order into a paper airplane and sailed it over to Julie without even interrupting my narrative. She caught, unfolded, and read it while mouthing something that looked suspiciously like ducking mother truckers, but I'm not very good at lip reading.

Larry Correia

#17. You will have no sensation of a leash around your neck if you sit by the peg. It is only when you stray that you feel the restraining tug.

Michael Parenti

#18. You balance the budget by restraining the growth of government and encouraging the growth of the private sector.

Mitt Romney

#19. You know you're no longer a boyfriend when there's a restraining order.

A.P. Miller

#20. Maybe, standing next to the obelisk of Ma'at, surrounded by the Sea of Chaos, we both realized that restraining ourselves from vengeance is what made us different from Apophis. Rules had their place. They kept us from unraveling.

Rick Riordan

#21. People continued - regardless of all that leads man forward - to try to unite the incompatibles: the virtue of love, and what is opposed to love, namely, the restraining of evil by violence.

Mahatma Gandhi

#22. He frequently lost all self-control and his language grew increasingly violent. In his intimate circle he now found no restraining influence.47

William L. Shirer

#23. Generally speaking, if a guy breaks your jaw and leg and cuts off your robotic arm, you file charges and get a restraining order. The only exception is when subtle machinations are needed to save the world from a massive, catastrophic alien takeover. But in no other circumstance.

Shannon Hale

#24. The restraining grace of common sense is the mark of all valid minds.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#25. There is no restraining men's tongues or pens when charged with a little vanity.

George Washington

#26. I'm looking for freedom with a side of restraining order, but everything just comes with bacon.

Sarah Cross

#27. No one asks how to motivate a baby. A baby naturally explores everything it can get at, unless restraining forces have already been at work. And this tendency doesn't die out, it's wiped out.

B.F. Skinner

#28. If the perpetual oscillation of nations between anarchy and despotism is to be replaced by the steady march of self-restraining freedom, it will be because men will gradually bring themselves to deal with political, as they now deal with scientific questions.

Thomas Huxley

#29. But there's a restraining order in place.' She speaks slowly, choosing her words carefully. 'I'm not supposed to be this close to you.' You were never supposed to be this close to me,' I say, and I have no idea why.

Barry Lyga

#30. Being violent is easy, too easy." He brushed it off. "Holding back, being gentle, restraining your strength when it's not needed, that takes - " "Character," she said. "Loads of it.

Joey W. Hill

#31. Municipal laws are a supply to the wisdom of each individual; and, at the same time, by restraining the natural liberty of men, make private interest submit to the interest of the public.

David Hume

#32. One of the earliest institutions in every New England community was a pair of stocks. The first public building was a meeting-house, but often before any house of God was builded, the devil got his restraining engine.

Alice Morse Earle

#33. Patience means restraining one's inclinations.

Tokugawa Ieyasu

#34. Roan rubbed his eyes, restraining the urge to ask if "light domination" meant he liked having his dates order for him in restaurants.

Andrea Speed