Refrain Quotes

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action. (Pythagoras)
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction. View quote
Simone Weil
Remember the refrain: We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us. Freedom is about stopping the past, but we have lost that ideal. View quote
Lawrence Lessig
Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out. View quote
Hilaire Belloc
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
To refrain from imitation is the best revenge. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
The constant refrain that bringing our troops home would demonstrate a lack of support for them must be one of the most amazing distortions ever foisted on the American public. View quote
Ron Paul
Monkeys who very sensibly refrain from speech, lest they should be set to earn their livings. View quote
Kenneth Grahame
Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known? View quote
William Shakespeare
Whiskey's to tough, Champagne costs too much, Vodka puts my mouth in gear. I hope this refrain, Will help me explain, As a matter of fact, I like beer. View quote
Tom T. Hall
We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children. (Germaine Greer)
An unlucky rich man is more capable of satisfying his desires and of riding out disaster when it strikes, but a lucky man is better off than him...He is the one who deserves to be described as happy. But until he is dead, you had better refrain from calling him happy, and just call him fortunate. View quote
Solon
The man who speaks and writes about art should refrain from censuring or pontificating. He will thus avoid doing anything foolish, for in the presence of primordial depth all art is but dream and nature. View quote
Jean Arp
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter. View quote
Aleister Crowley
The audience is requested not to refrain from talking during the overture. Otherwise they will know all the tunes before the opera begins. View quote
Ralph Vaughan Williams
If you refrain from judging your worst enemy, his children will come to your side. What more severe judgment could come upon an enemy than this? View quote
Sun Myung Moon
Some authors state that the last stage in this chain of measurements involves "consciousness," or the "intellectual inner life" of the observer, by virtue of the "principle of psycho-physical parallelism." Other authors introduce a wave function for the entire universe. In this book, I shall refrain from using concepts that I do not understand. View quote
Asher Peres
If someone is frequently under attack by negative entities, it is because of a polluted consciousness that needs to be upgraded. A negative entity dislikes visiting a clean mind as much as a rat dislikes going to a clean place. [...] Putting up spiritual paraphernalia around the home and not allowing any negative activity to go on in the environment can help you greatly. This may mean asking friends and loved ones to refrain from drinking, smoking, taking drugs, gossiping, or doing any activity that does not encourage spiritual thought and action. View quote
Bhakti Tirtha Swami
My delegation cannot refrain from speaking on this question-we who have such an intimate knowledge of boxcars and of deportations to unknown destinations that we cannot be silent. View quote
Golda Meir
If you will refrain from telling any lies about the Republican Party, I'lll promise not to tell the truth about the Democrats. View quote
Chauncey Depew
Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it as the secret striving of a generous nature; whilst, on the other hand, the ill-natured get credit for all the evil they refrain from. (Honoré de Balzac)
I've lost track of where friendship ends and falling begins. (this is the foolish refrain of the hopelessly devoted.) there are times I want to kiss you midsentence. undo the not-doing with one gesture. View quote
David Levithan
Really now: If you can't get me my newspaper on time, how can you expect me to refrain from killing people? View quote
Jeff Lindsay
I am a very shy person who is just close to himself. So I would refrain from talking about my personal life. View quote
N. T. Rama Rao, Jr.
I can, of course, think what I want, just like everyone else. I simply have to refrain from saying everything I think. View quote
Margrethe II of Denmark