I read these words which are the sum of all moral philosophy, and which cut short all the disputes of the casuists:… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Even with the right political climate, would the wrong people refrain from doing the wrong thing? — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
I cannot refrain from saying that women must come to recognize there is some function of womanhood other than being a child-bearing… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
I can, of course, think what I want, just like everyone else. I simply have to refrain from saying everything I think. — Margrethe II of Denmark Copy Share Image
From eating meat arrogance is born, from arrogance erroneous imaginations issue, and from imagination is born greed; and for this reason refrain… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Do not be deceived by a man's eloquence; rather whoever fulfils trusts and refrains from impugning people's honour is a real man. — Umar Copy Share Image
Should government refrain from regulation (taxation), the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent and the fraud can no longer be concealed. — John Maynard Keynes 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
This symmetrical composition--the same motif at the beginning and at the end--may seem quite "novelistic" to you, and I am willing to… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The moment one abandons the idea that he was born to discover what is right and enforce it upon the rest of… — Benjamin Tucker 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
Her vice takes hold of her again, but she still refrains until some moment when, gnawed by some hideous caprice, she comes… — Jean Lorrain Copy Share Image
We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we… — Germaine Greer 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
Before he bent his head, I knew what he was going to do. Touch his lips to mine. Oh, and I wanted… — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
If I simply refrain from making a judgment in cases where I do not perceive the truth with sufficient clarity and distinctness,… — Rene Descartes 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
The most realistic distinction between the investor and the speculator is found in their attitude toward stock-market movements. The speculator's primary interest… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Forget the suffering You caused others. Forget the suffering Others caused you. The waters run and run, Springs sparkle and are done,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A murmuring, fateful, giant voice, out of the earth and sky, Voice of a mighty dying tree in the Redwood forest dense…… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
The fact of the matter is that, since we are determined always to keep our feelings to ourselves, we have never given… — Marcel Proust 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
God must act and pour himself into you the moment he finds you ready. Don't imagine that God can be compared to… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
Nature is a tenacious recycler, every dung heap and fallen redwood tree a bustling community of saprophytes wresting life from the dead… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
The commandment to refrain from placing blame on our parents, deeply imprinted in us by our upbringing, skillfully performs the function of… — Alice Miller 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
If anyone does not refrain from the love of money, he will be defiled by idolatry and so be judged as if… — Polycarp Copy Share Image
If you want to, you can share my teaching refrain: I can't want you to succeed more than you do. — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
Monkeys who very sensibly refrain from speech, lest they should be set to earn their livings. — Kenneth Grahame 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
It is a pity, in my opinion, that no prize exists for the writer who best refrains from adding to the world's… — William Saroyan 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
When the sparrow sings its final refrain, the hush is felt nowhere more deeply than in the heart of man. — Anonymous 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
The dreamed outcome of launching a psychic attack can make you feel small and petty. I think for that reason I'm going… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
It is possible to have words come to your mind, and still refrain from speaking them aloud. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
As a psychopathic creature, the corporation can neither recognize nor act upon moral reasons to refrain from harming others. — Joel Bakan Copy Share Image
shall I, for fear of feeble man who shall die, hold my peace? Shall I for fear of scoffs and frowns, refrain… — Maria W. Stewart 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
If you refrain from judging your worst enemy, his children will come to your side. What more severe judgment could come upon… — Sun Myung Moon Copy Share Image
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