Putting down the power right from the whistle would be ugly and brutal, but it would get the job done. He wanted to tell her that, but this was the thing with coaching: you had...

Le secret d’ennuyer est celui de tout dire.(The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.)”(Sept Discours en Vers sur l’Homme, 1738)

Other folk thought the Rage was simple bloodlust, a berserk savagery that neither knew nor cared what its target was, and so it was when it struck without warning. But when a hradani gave himself...

Democracy extends the sphere of individual freedom; socialism restricts it. Democracy attaches all possible value to each man; socialism makes each man a mere agent, a mere number. Democracy and socialism have nothing in common...

The ideas are louder when there are fewer of them.

When you give yourself to me, completely, I will bite you. Until then, my love, I will only nibble on you.”~Cole

The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called “spannungsbogen” — which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.

The most frightful of all spectacles is the strength of the civilization without its mercy.

Great men have great discipline.

Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action; and bidding an Affectionate farewell to this August body under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer...

One of the things we’re taught as actors is restraint – don’t jump off the cliff.

I restrain myself from following orders—especially restraining orders. I’d like to remind my dad that my love is longer than 500 feet.

She was becoming too familiar for her own comfort and peace of mind. It was not despair; but it seemed to her like life was passing her by, leaving its promise broken and unfulfilled.

The path of peace is not a passive journey. It takes incredible strength not to open a can of ‘whoop-ass’, justifiably, when ones button is pushed.

It is hard to remain iconoclastic when standing waist-deep in the shards of smashed icons.

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

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

Saying of the ProphetAngerYou ask for a piece of advice. I tell you: ‘Do not get angry.’ He is strong who can withhold anger.

[Edna lived] a dual life – that outward existence which conforms, the inward life which questions

De som har makt over ordene bør være edru blant de rasende.

Quick gratification of desires, often lead to low stratifications in life

We are what we are, Nial, neither as good or as evil as others paint us. And what we are doesn’t change how truly we feel, only how free we are to follow those feelings.

The most daring flights of genius do not always soar assured when they seek a throne in the fire & find a grave in copious tears. For knowledge is also a vice: if it is...

Sometimes the greatest difference between being a boy and being a man is restraint.

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

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

Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as...

But we don’t have to react. That’s what I’m saying. A police force, like a government, should be above that. Just because we’re provoked doesn’t mean we have to act. — Still Life

Beating yourself up over every perceived mistake is the work of an internal abuser who must be restrained and reformed.

The practice of that which is ethically best—what we call goodness or virtue—involves a course of conduct which, in all respects, is opposed to that which leads to success in the cosmic struggle for existence....

Focus.Such a little word for such a hard thing and yet it can make things so simple, unless you break it. Like glass.Fragile on certain points with enough pressure ore carelessness, but if handled correctly,...

The church is often called a killjoy for protesting against sexual license. But the real killing of joy comes with the grabbing of pleasure. As with credit card usage. the price tag is hidden at...

Live without restraint. Remember to be beautiful, to be LOVE, to be yourself, to accept your self. You don’t need to be accepted by others. Be free to find the beauty and value in all...

Did someone actually have to do bad things to be a bad boy, or was it all about the potential? If it was the potential that counted, then maybe it was the restraint that was...

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

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