For fear of causing terror to living beings, Mahamati, let the Bodhisattva who is disciplining himself to attain compassion, refrain from eating… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Monkeys who very sensibly refrain from speech, lest they should be set to earn their livings. — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
All religious vows, codes, and commitments are null & void herein. Please refrain from contaminating the ideosphere with harmful memes through prayer,… — Greg Erwin Copy Share Image
We need never refrain from asking anything of God simply on the ground that we think it impossible. God specializes in "impossible"… — Carroll Eugene Simcox Copy Share Image
There is an old proverb to the effect that 'all those who open their mouths, close their eyes!' The purpose of silence… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
New Year's resolution: To refrain from saying witty, unkind things, unless they are really witty and irreparably damaging. — James Agate Copy Share Image
To refrain from storytelling is perhaps one of the highest forms of respect we can pay. Those people, with no stories to… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
Virtue also depends on ourselves. And so also does vice. For where we are free to act we are also free to… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is only through literature that one can put oneself in someone else’s shoes and understand the other’s different and contradictory sides… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
One should refrain from contempt for the baser specimens of humanity, for whom liberation amounts to shaving the heads of women who… — Coco Chanel Copy Share Image
It is best if we do not listen to or look at the person whom we consider to be the cause of… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
If true, the Pythagorean principles as to abstain from flesh, foster innocence; if ill-founded they at least teach us frugality, and what… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Only with great care. For thousands, carols will be their only link with a church. At the same time, sentimentality is perhaps… — Jeremy Begbie Copy Share Image
Remember the refrain: We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us. Freedom is about stopping the past,… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
Children and scientists share an outlook on life. If I do this, what will happen? is both the motto of the child… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
Lovely & too charming Fair one, notwithstanding your forbidding Squint, your greazy tresses & your swelling Back, which are more frightful than… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
When our mind works freely without any hindrance, and is at liberty to 'come' or to 'go', we attain Samadhi of Prajna,… — Huineng Copy Share Image
The public is increasingly disgusted with a steady diet of defamation, and prepared to reward those who refrain from it. — Mitch Daniels Copy Share Image
To be just, it is not enough to refrain from injustice. One must go further and refuse to play its game, substituting… — Pedro Arrupe Copy Share Image
The constant refrain that bringing our troops home would demonstrate a lack of support for them must be one of the most… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
If we can manage to refrain from harming others in our everyday actions and words, we can start to give more serious… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Never say anything to hurt anyone. Moreover . . . refrain from double talk, from shrewd and canny remarks that are designed… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
If you cannot be merciful, at least speak as though you are a sinner. If you are not a peacemaker, at least… — Dorotheus of Gaza Copy Share Image
No man ever believes with a true and saving faith unless God inclines his heart; and no man when God does incline… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I consider anybody who weighs over 200 pounds fat, and time was when I could not refrain from telling such people so. — Gloria Swanson Copy Share Image
