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
That does not mean that we must forego just and fair criticism, or refrain from opposition to policies which are debatable or… — Bainbridge Colby Copy Share Image
To be a socialist means to let the ego serve the neighbour, to sacrifice the self for the whole. In its deepest… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
Keep out of the Sight of Feasts and Banquets as much as may be; for 'tis more difficult to refrain good Cheer,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Friends and family are vitally important for an individual who is struggling to return to the gospel path. Those around such a… — M. Russell Ballard Copy Share Image
Children are notoriously curious about everything, everything except... the things people want them to know. It then remains for us to refrain… — Floyd Dell 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
No parent ought to punish a child except with a view to the child's good. And in order to do good to… — Henry Clay Trumbull 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
A perfect historian must possess an imagination sufficiently powerful to make his narrative affecting and picturesque; yet he must control it so… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Numerous Christians do not know how to glorify God in their eating and drinking. They do not eat and drink simply to… — Watchman Nee 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
For we live with those retrievals from childhood that coalesce and echo throughout our lives, the way shattered pieces of glass in… — Michael Ondaatje 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
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
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
I plead with you to have the courage to refrain from judging and criticizing those around you, as well as the courage… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
True and false fears let us refrain, Let us love nobly, and live, and add again Years and years unto years, till… — John Donne 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
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
There is an honesty which is but decided selfishness in disguise. The person who will not refrain from expressing his or her… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
To bear the cross means that you refrain from doing what you have the power to do. You are qualified to fulfill… — Watchman Nee 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
Exercising during the cold and flu season will help people stay in shape, and most likely fight off colds or reduce the… — Michael Flynn 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
The brain seems a thoroughfare for nerve-action passing its way to the motor animal. It has been remarked that Life's aim is… — Charles Scott Sherrington Copy Share Image
If you're going to live in a community, you have to refrain from killing one another and stealing from one another. You… — John Shelby Spong 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
There is a simple way to become buddha: When you refrain from unwholesome actions, are not attached to birth and death, and… — Dogen 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
To you who think you are lost or without hope, or who think you have done too much that was too wrong… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If God has given graces to some good women, revealing to them something holy and good through His Holy Scriptures, should they,… — Marie Dentiere Copy Share Image
This spirit of freedom is expanding even where it must struggle against the external obstacles of governments that misunderstand their own function.… — Immanuel Kant 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
We've all felt anger. It can come when things don't turn out the way we want. It might be a reaction to… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
For one day, or for one day for a week, refrain from something you habitually do to run away, to escape. Pick… — Pema Chodron 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
Spade-“If you’d refrain from slamming my face any more into this dirty rock floor, I’ll do whatever you like,” was his even… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image