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Quotes about Restraint

For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work, but the one who now restrains it will continue until he is taken out of the way.
- 2 Thessalonians 2:7
When we put bits into the mouths of horses to make them obey us, we can guide the whole animal.
- James 3:3
I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.
- Tom Lehrer
Once in a mental hospital, a person grows used to the the freedom that exists in the world of insanity and becomes addicted to it.
- Paulo Coelho
We tend to seek captivity because we are used to seeing freedom as something that has neither frontiers nor responsibilities.
- Paulo Coelho
One must learn that which is necessary, and not simply what one wants.
- Paulo Coelho
Always shun whatever may make you angry.
- Publilius Syrus
Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
- Henry Ward Beecher
If you want to stop an argument, close your mouth.
- Charles Swindoll
The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God... For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way. And then the lawless one will be revealed.
- David Jeremiah
Everything's so repressive now - it's the No generation. You can't do anything, you can't eat anything, you have to abstain.
- Michael Douglas