What is wrong with Christianity is that it refrains from doing all those things that Christ commanded should be done. — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
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
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
I'm interested in the limits of personality, in the possibility of change, and the saving power of art. Do powerful works of… — Adam Ross 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
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
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
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
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
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
I must not refrain from saying that India can gain more by waiving the right of punishment. — Mahatma Gandhi 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 giraffe is so much a lady that one refrains from thinking of her legs, but remembers her as floating over the… — Isak Dinesen 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
