Refrain Quotes
210 quotes by 172 authors
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The commandment to refrain from placing blame on our parents, deeply imprinted in us by our upbringing, skillfully performs the function of hiding essential truths…
— Alice Miller
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My family celebrates both the navratras that come twice in a year. We also refrain from eating meat. I just enjoy that people come home,…
— Ronit Roy
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I am a very shy person who is just close to himself. So I would refrain from talking about my personal life.
— N. T. Rama Rao, Jr.
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I have lived so long among people who do not understand me, been so long accustomed to refrain and disguise myself for fear of being…
— Jane Welsh Carlyle
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While no Muslim worthy of his name would lose his respect for God, the Prophet Muhammad, and other symbols of Islam, he might well refrain…
— Mustafa Akyol
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Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out.
— Hilaire Belloc
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Courses on historical methodology are not worth the time that they take up. I shall never give one myself, and I have observed that many…
— Samuel E. Morison
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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
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We will never abdicate the security of the United States to a foreign country or refrain from taking action when appropriate. But we cannot ignore…
— John O. Brennan
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Even with the right political climate, would the wrong people refrain from doing the wrong thing?
— William A. Dembski
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It was the government that should have been told to refrain from its inhuman policy of violence and massacre, not the African people .... It…
— Nelson Mandela
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When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack.
— Jack Henry Abbott
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One song Glory One song Before I go Glory One song to leave behind Find one song One last refrain Glory From the pretty boy…
— Unknown Author
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Who could refrain that had a heart to love; and with that heart, courage to make love known.
— William Shakespeare
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I refrain from giving advice to couples who are undergoing a rough time because I do not know the connection between these people, and I…
— Judy Peris
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It's hard to refrain from crying even when someone is dying, but maybe death is not the end. Surely, we will never know what's the…
— Vincent Madriaga
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Refrain at all times from such Foods as cannot be procured without violence and oppression.
— Unknown Author
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So long as you are a slave to the opinions of the many you have not yet approached freedom or tasted its nectar But I…
— Julian The Apostate
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Under no circumstances should we now ease our restrictions on arms sales to Iran. Such a policy reversal would be seen as inexplicably inconsistent by…
— Caspar Weinberger
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I try to discover a little something to make me sweeter. Oh baby refrain from breaking my heart.
— Erasure
Who Wrote These Refrain Quotes
172 authors contributed a total of 210 Refrain Quotes, led by these top contributors: