Refrain Quotes

210 quotes by 184 authors

One should refrain from intoxicating drinks and drugs. — Gautama Buddha
Gun control does not decrease gun ownership by criminals but instead reduces their incentives to refrain from violence because it decreases the supply of armed… — John McGinnis
Whoever desires Paradise, proceeds towards goodness; whoever fears Hell, refrains from the impulses of passions; whoever believes firmly in death, detests wordly life; and whoever… — Ali ibn Abi Talib
We must not demonstrate any arrogance, and we must refrain from any irrational or undemocratic behavior. — Chen Shui-bian
The prophet shows that, for the sake of silence, we are to abstain even from good talk. If this be so, how much more needful… — Benedict of Nursia
We should refrain from anything that seems to be a final judgment of any person...the Lord alone has the capacity to judge...And, in all of… — Dallin H. Oaks
We've all felt anger. It can come when things don't turn out the way we want. It might be a reaction to something which is… — Thomas S. Monson
The original writer is not he who refrains from imitating others, but he who can be imitated by none. — FranÃ§ois-RenÃ© de Chateaubriand
The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner. — Margaret Halsey
For one day, or for one day for a week, refrain from something you habitually do to run away, to escape. Pick something concrete, such… — Pema Chodron
Children are notoriously curious about everything, everything except... the things people want them to know. It then remains for us to refrain from forcing any… — Floyd Dell
Should government refrain from regulation (taxation), the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent and the fraud can no longer be concealed. — John Maynard Keynes
There is a simple way to become buddha: When you refrain from unwholesome actions, are not attached to birth and death, and are compassionate toward… — Dogen
Until government administrators can so identify the interests of government with those of the people and refrain from defrauding the masses through the device of… — Elgin Groseclose
Nothing can be said: nothing sure, nothing probable, nothing honest. Better to err through omission than through commission: better to refrain from steering the fate… — Primo Levi
Youth must refrain from ungrateful questioning of governmental mandates. Instead they must dedicate themselves to study, work and military service. The very spirit of rebellion… — Che Guevara
To refrain from storytelling is perhaps one of the highest forms of respect we can pay. Those people, with no stories to circle them, can… — Ben Marcus
When our mind works freely without any hindrance, and is at liberty to 'come' or to 'go', we attain Samadhi of Prajna, or liberation. Such… — Huineng
I try in my prints to testify that we live in a beautiful and orderly world, not in a chaos without norms, even though that… — M.C. Escher
Let Christians all understand that conscience is between themselves and God alone. They are not at liberty to impose even their freedom of conscience upon… — Ellet J. Waggoner

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