Conservation is a positive exercise of skill and insight, not merely a negative exercise of abstinence and caution. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which if not a virtue, is the groundwork of a… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Wherever the religious neurosis has appeared on the earth so far, we find it connected with three dangerous prescriptions as to regimen:… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Mourning your abstinence from junk food is like mourning the loss of an enemy who would happily see you die. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A virtuous abstinence from the joys of pederasty comes most easily to those who have no taste for it. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I don't get it , my mom tells me to get her something so I get it .. when I ask her… — Armin Ferizovic Copy Share Image
When I was writing 'The Abstinence Teacher,' I really tried to immerse myself in contemporary American evangelical culture. — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
If by how you dress, you are saying to guys, "Hey, look at my body," why would a guy want to get… — Jason Evert Copy Share Image
If a man's aspirations towards a righteous life are serious.. .if he earnestly and sincerely seeks a righteous life, his first act… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Refrain to-night; And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence, the next more easy; For use almost can… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“AIDS would have claimed fewer lives if we had publicly recommended what I wish to call ‘The Presumption of Sickness,’ i.e., the… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I'm working on something a little different. It's a technique I call, 'tantric abstinence.' Now, the way this works is I meet… — Christian Finnegan Copy Share Image
Satanism encourages its followers to indulge in their natural desires. Only by doing so can you be a completely satisfied person with… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
You're quite right there," he said. "I have practiced abstinence myself for years, and had my time of fasting, too, but now… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
This is the magnanimity of authorship, when a writer having a topic presented to him, fruitful of beauties for common minds, waives… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Conservatives, who have presumed that the key to preventing AIDS is abstinence-only education, and liberals, who have focused on distribution of condoms,… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
Wherever on earth the religious neurosis has appeared we find it tied to three dangerous dietary demands: solitude, fasting, and sexual abstinence. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
My experience through life has convinced me that, while moderation and temperance in all things are commendable and beneficial, abstinence from spirituous… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
“Well, that brings us to the point: There is only one way to protect ourselves from the deadly diseases that stalk the… — James C. Dobson Copy Share Image
Abstinence is practical and very realistic for some people, but others dont choose that path. For me, sex education was in school,… — Bristol Palin Copy Share Image
We're doing a great disservice to our young people because the only protection is abstinence, as condoms have been proven fallible. The… — Christine O'Donnell Copy Share Image
Satan represents indulgence, instead of abstinence! Satan represents vital existence, instead of spiritual pipe dreams! Satan represents undefiled wisdom, instead of hypocritical… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
It is horrible! It is not the suffering and the death of the animals that is horrible, but the fact that the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The world pampers the body with food and material comforts," she said. "They appease the flesh but are enemies of the spirit.… — Andrew Davidson Copy Share Image
Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I'm against suing tobacco companies. I think abstinence is a perversion. I think Bush's lies are worse than Clinton's. I think Vegas… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Most cultures traditionally link food and spirituality directly with periodic restrictions and celebrations punctuating the year. Abstinence from particular foods or full-on… — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
Taboo restrictions are distinct from religious or moral prohibitions. They are not based upon any divine ordinance, but may be said to… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“There is more to life than what we know and there is more to sex than what we know.Life was designed by… — Oladepo Olatunbosun Copy Share Image
Well, I think that abstinence has its place as part of a comprehensive health and sex education curriculum. It would be wrong… — Kerry Healey Copy Share Image
Once a man has tasted creative action, then thereafter, no matter how safely he schools himself in patience, he is restive, acutely… — Jean Toomer Copy Share Image
The rapid, sweeping deterioration of values is characterized by a preoccupation-even an obsession-with the procreative act. Abstinence before marriage and fidelity within… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
I have AIDS. I am surprised that I do. I have not been exposed since1977, which is to say that my experience,… — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
