Sometimes our power resides not in what we do, but in what we don't do. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Refrain from reckless and thoughtless actions. Be as calm and judicious as a mountain. — Choi Hong Hi Copy Share Image
If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn’t hesitate to do so. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
On the set of Besharam I had to refrain from smoking, out of respect for my parents — Ranbir Kapoor Copy Share Image
Who will in time present pleasure refrain, shall in time to come the more pleasure obtain. — John Heywood Copy Share Image
Refrain from throwing your bicycle in public. It shows poor upbringing — Jacquie Phelan 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
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
That, Senators, is what a favour from gangs amounts to. They refrain from murdering someone; then they boast that they have spared… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The big diffrence between a warrior and a victim is that the victim represses and the warrior refrains. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For me to dominate the Congress in spite of these fundamental differences is almost a species of violence which I must refrain… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Eva [Braun] also cried when [Adolf Hitler] would leave her for long periods. She was inconsolable without him, that was a never-changing… — Gretl Braun 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
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
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
It can be argued that rapists deserve to be raped, that mutilators deserve to be mutilated. Most societies, however, refrain from responding… — Stephen Bright 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
To be angry is to yield to the influence of Satan. No one can make us angry. It is our choice. If… — Thomas S. Monson 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
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
We live in a globalising world. That means that all of us, consciously or not, depend on each other. Whatever we do… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
"Who are we to say what is right and what is wrong?" is the common refrain under the doctrine of pure pluralism.… — Benjamin Hart 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
This is a photograph, so it is as you see: there are no lies and no deceptions. One can detect here, elevated… — Yukio Mishima 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
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
I see the origin of the irresistible attraction of metaphor and analogy, the explanation of our strange and permanent need to find… — Roger Caillois Copy Share Image
When I take photographs, my body inevitably enters a trancelike state. Briskly weaving my way through the avenues, every cell in my… — Daido Moriyama Copy Share Image
I try in my prints to testify that we live in a beautiful and orderly world, not in a chaos without norms,… — M. C. Escher Copy Share Image
Until government administrators can so identify the interests of government with those of the people and refrain from defrauding the masses through… — Elgin Groseclose Copy Share Image
There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature. — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain. — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Refrain from being too judgmental. You'll often be surprised by what people have to offer. — Lisa Ling Copy Share Image
Refrain from the violence of fist, tongue or heart. And heart is real important. — Alveda King Copy Share Image