Quotes of: Refrain Keyword

Christian men ought not refrain from the sexual pollutions that surround us because they object to lovemaking; they refrain because they object to the wanton vandalism of it. Our culture is doing to sex what people who chew with their mouths open do ...

Reforming Marriage

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

Marcus Aurelius

At Yale, most everyone (except Oswaldo Gutierrez) refrained from telling Rob what to do, because of the way he'd grown up in Newark. In Newark, most everyone (except Oswaldo Gutierrez) refrained from telling Rob what to do, because of the way he'd go...

The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League

As a musician, I have always refrained from criticizing another artist.

Jill Sobule

Our lab had always refrained from keeping our studies secret.

Peter Agre

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Evelyn Waugh

A man with nothing to lend should refrain from borrowing.

On Solitude

The public is increasingly disgusted with a steady diet of defamation, and prepared to reward those who refrain from it.

Mitch Daniels

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

Margaret Halsey

Those who believe everything they read probably should refrain from reading.

Matt

I did not foresee my words becoming such a reverie of mimic and refrain.

Glean

Don't be blurred by impulse, to avoid regrets, refrain from doing things that will make you regret.

Michael Bassey Johnson

I consider anybody who weighs over 200 pounds fat, and time was when I could not refrain from telling such people so.

Gloria Swanson

As a child, I was hyper, I was a clown and I was sensitive. Today I'm all of the above, except I've refrained from bouncing off the walls.

Nadine Velazquez

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.

Olive Schreiner

I think for more than half of my career, I have refrained from talking to the media.

Kathleen Battle

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

Chloe Sevigny

You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough.

E. W. Howe

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

Chen Shui-bian

When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack.

Jack Henry Abbott

It is proper netiquette to refrain from asking others online about things that make them uncomfortable. NetworkEtiquette.net

David Chiles