Grace Potter Quotes

He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

I think the only time I show my emotions and anger is on the cricket field; otherwise, I've mellowed down. And with age, I think, with age you always end up mellowing down.

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

Patience has never been my strong suit.

I tend to get over-excited and very, very loud. I rein myself in when people flinch and dogs start howling.

In the car and in front of the camera I tend to be very calm but behind the scenes I can get fired up and passionate, I just don't see the need to shout my mouth off in public.

I have such a temperament that I cannot do anything in excess.

Even as a boy, my dad always told me, 'Don't show emotion.' If I banged my cue, he would give me a row and say, 'Stop that.' Don't show any petulance. It was developed, certainly, but I think you have got to have it in you.

People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them.

Practice moderation in all things except love.

Every wave of passion restrained is a balance in your favor. It is therefore good policy not to return anger for anger, as with all true morality.

Self-restraint may be alien to the human temperament, but humanity without restraint will dig its own grave.

Self-control is one of the most exhilarating of pleasures.

I ain't affraid to let it out, i'm not affraid to take that fall, but i found beyond all doubt, you say more by saying nothing at all.

He knows not how to speak who cannot be silent; still less how to act with vigour and decision. - Who hastens to the end is silent: loudness is impotence.

One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.

Less pains in the world a man cannot take than to bold his tongue.

You have to know when to prod and when to be quiet, when to let things take their course.

Keep your temper, said the Caterpillar.

Most of us are searching-consciously or unconsciously- for a degree of internal balance and harmony between ourselves and the outside world, and if we happen to become aware-like Stravinsky- of a volcano within us, we will compensate by urging restraint. By that same token, someone who bore a glacier within them might urge passionate abandon. The danger is, as Bergman points out, that a glacial personality in need of passionate abandon may read Stravinsky and apply restraint instead.

If you cannot be positive, then at least be quiet.

Balance. It was all about balance. That had been one of the first things that she had learned: the centre of the seesaw has neither up nor down, but upness and downness flow through it while it remains unmoved. You had to be the centre of the seesaw so the pain flowed through you, not into you. It was very hard. But she could do it!

For Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and Passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.

If you want to be seen, stand up. If you want to be heard, speak up. If you want to be appreciated, shut up.