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
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
Every day is a fresh beginning; Listen my soul, to the glad refrain, And in spite of old sorrow and possible pain,… — Sarah Chauncey Woolsey Copy Share Image
Nowhere is it written that NATO had to accept certain countries. All that would have been required to refrain from doing so… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
We treat them in the same way. Those who kill our women and innocent, we kill their women and innocent, until they… — Osama bin Laden Copy Share Image
I refrain from lots of things I love, like cheese and carbs. I eat plenty of greens every day, my favorite being… — Chloe Sevigny Copy Share Image
If a man can control his body and mind and thereby refrains from eating animal flesh and wearing animal products, I say… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Heinlein's Rules for Writers Rule One: You Must Write Rule Two: Finish What Your Start Rule Three: You Must Refrain From Rewriting,… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
For other things mild Heav'n a time ordains, And disapproves that care, though wise in show, That with superfluous burden loads the… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Often you've read another poem that you think is so beautiful that you'd like to make something like that. And so you… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
To remain stable is to refrain from trying to separate yourself from a pain because you know that you cannot. Running away… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So far, I've never missed a deadline for a term paper, a review, a manuscript. I perform the mumbo-jumbo of voting with… — William T. Vollmann 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
The prophet shows that, for the sake of silence, we are to abstain even from good talk. If this be so, how… — Anonymous 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
A Hundred Years From Now Well a hundred years from now I won't be crying A hundred years from now I won't… — Lester Flatt Copy Share Image
Papers should include more side remarks, open questions, and such. Very often, these are more interesting than the theorems actually proved. Alas,… — Jean-Pierre Serre Copy Share Image
The big difference between a warrior and a victim is that the victim represses and the warrior refrains. Victims repress because they… — Miguel Angel Ruiz 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
I write because, exacting as it may be to do so, it is still more difficult to refrain, and because - however… — Iris Origo Copy Share Image
We are interested in stifling the sale of this book. We believe that this can be best accomplished by refusing to be… — Madison Grant Copy Share Image
Finally, I believe in an America where religious intolerance will someday end; where all men and all churches are treated as equal;… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The elimination of horrible disease, the increase of the quality of lives (for humans and for animals) achieved through research using animals… — Carl Cohen Copy Share Image
If wisdom were offered me with the proviso that I should keep it shut up and refrain from declaring it, I should… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The essence of Buddhism is if you can, help others. If not, then at least refrain from hurting others. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
A man ranks lowest on the credibility index; if he refrains to appreciate the creative instinct of his acquaintances jealously, but likes… — Anuj Copy Share Image
Although we can't control which roles are assigned to us, it must be our business to act our given role as best… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
...William wondered why he always disliked people who said 'no offense meant.' Maybe it was because they found it easier to to… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
If we truly think of Christ as our source of holiness, we shall refrain from anything wicked or impure in thought or… — Gregory of Nyssa Copy Share Image
An opera singer is like an athlete before a match. An athlete cannot overdo anything. In order to perform at the highest… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. We collect into a… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
Predictability would also seem to inspire confidence that a President [Donald] Trump would refrain from deciding to respond with overwhelming force when… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point?but I still remember the… — Douglas MacArthur 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
Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I encourage you to seek the help of the Savior to resist temptation and to refrain from behavior that would cause you… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
Nothing can be said: nothing sure, nothing probable, nothing honest. Better to err through omission than through commission: better to refrain from… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
It is part of the irony of life that the strongest feelings of devoted gratitude of which human nature seems to be… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
We will never abdicate the security of the United States to a foreign country or refrain from taking action when appropriate. But… — John O. Brennan Copy Share Image