Refrain Quotes

The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner.

[Antonio] Gramsci's words and actions explain their assessment, though I think we should refrain from using the term "model intellectual" for him or others.

I read these words which are the sum of all moral philosophy, and which cut short all the disputes of the casuists: When in doubt if an action is good or bad, refrain.

Refrain from the violence of fist, tongue or heart. And heart is real important.

We must not demonstrate any arrogance, and we must refrain from any irrational or undemocratic behavior.

I refrain from lots of things I love, like cheese and carbs. I eat plenty of greens every day, my favorite being watercress.

One should refrain from contempt for the baser specimens of humanity, for whom liberation amounts to shaving the heads of women who have slept with Germans.

We should refrain from anything that seems to be a final judgment of any person...the Lord alone has the capacity to judge...And, in all of this we must remember the command to forgive.

I encourage you to seek the help of the Savior to resist temptation and to refrain from behavior that would cause you to have to repent or to have your Church membership called into question.

There must be something in oneself which is essential. Therefore I refrain from referring to a landscape or certain objects when speaking of a picture. The hand is cleverer than the mind.

There's an old blues refrain: I begged for water, you gave me gasoline.

No parent ought to punish a child except with a view to the child's good. And in order to do good to a child through his punishment, a parent must religiously refrain from punishing him while angry.

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Refrain from throwing your bicycle in public. It shows poor upbringing

As a psychopathic creature, the corporation can neither recognize nor act upon moral reasons to refrain from harming others.

Thou shalt abstain, Renounce, refrain.

True and false fears let us refrain, Let us love nobly, and live, and add again Years and years unto years, till we attain To write threescore ; this is the second of our reign.

What is most important is to cease legislating for all lives what is liveable only for some, and similarly, to refrain from proscribing for all lives what is unlivable for some.

Monkeys who very sensibly refrain from speech, lest they should be set to earn their livings.

We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us.

Freedom is about stopping the past.

Remember the refrain: We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us. Freedom is about stopping the past, but we have lost that ideal.

Who doesn't know that the first law of history is not to dare to say anything false, and the second is not to refrain from saying anything true?

The Verse-Refrain form starts with a context before the topic that the Refrain is talking about happens.

Let us ask what is best - not what is customary. Let us love temperance - let us be just - let us refrain from bloodshed.

Refrain from following the example of those whose craving is for attention, not their own improvement.

If you refrain from judging your worst enemy, his children will come to your side. What more severe judgment could come upon an enemy than this?

...William wondered why he always disliked people who said 'no offense meant.' Maybe it was because they found it easier to to say 'no offense meant' than actually to refrain from giving offense.

I am a very shy person who is just close to himself. So I would refrain from talking about my personal life.

If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn’t hesitate to do so.

I encourage young people to refrain from putting themselves in dangerous situations in the name of validating themselves sexually.

If we can refrain from harming others in our actions & words, we can start to give serious attention to actively doing good.

Eva [Braun] also cried when [Adolf Hitler] would leave her for long periods. She was inconsolable without him, that was a never-changing refrain.

The dreamed outcome of launching a psychic attack can make you feel small and petty. I think for that reason I'm going to refrain from launching any.

Kindness steers no easy course. Attributing it to character, we seldom recognize the secret efforts of a noble heart, whereas we reward really wicked people for the evil they refrain from committing.

The good refrain from sin from the pure love of virtue.

New Year's resolution: To refrain from saying witty, unkind things, unless they are really witty and irreparably damaging.

Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.

Who will in time present pleasure refrain, shall in time to come the more pleasure obtain.

Sometimes it takes all my resolution and power of self-control to refrain from butting my head against the wall. I want to howl and foam at the mouth but I daren't.

To refrain and desist from interfering with terminal cancer patients, in their use of Laetrile acquired through the 'Affidavit System.

I must not refrain from saying that India can gain more by waiving the right of punishment.

For me to dominate the Congress in spite of these fundamental differences is almost a species of violence which I must refrain from.

That, Senators, is what a favour from gangs amounts to. They refrain from murdering someone; then they boast that they have spared him!

I cannot refrain from saying that women must come to recognize there is some function of womanhood other than being a child-bearing machine.

Generosity knows how to count, but refrains.

Refrain from allowing your mind to wander toward other people's goals or to focus away from your own.

The more we witness our emotional reactions and understand how they work, the easier it is to refrain.

It is possible to have words come to your mind, and still refrain from speaking them aloud.

Obama believes the cops are the problem. That's why his new philosophy is to have them withdraw and refrain and not be seen because just their presence is provocative.