Refrain Quotes

• You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough.

  E. W. Howe

  Love, Lying, Enemy

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• Refrain from reckless and thoughtless actions. Be as calm and judicious as a mountain.

  Choi Hong Hi

  Mountain, Action, Calm

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• The public is increasingly disgusted with a steady diet of defamation, and prepared to reward those who refrain from it.

  Mitch Daniels

  Rewards, Disgusted, Steady

  Keynote Speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee, delivered 11 February 2011, Ronald Reagan Centennial Dinner, Washington, D.C.

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• 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.

  Aleister Crowley

  Reading, Discipline, Mind

  "The Confessions of Aleister Crowley". Book by Aleister Crowley. Chapter 23, 1969.

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• Monkeys who very sensibly refrain from speech, lest they should be set to earn their livings.

  Kenneth Grahame

  Speech, Monkeys, Should

  'The Golden Age' (1895) 'Lusisti Satis'

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• As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Marijuana, Smoking

  Mark Twain (2013). “Great Speeches by Mark Twain”, p.95, Courier Corporation

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• 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.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Past, Trying, Stopping

  Keynote address at the Open Source Convention, July 24, 2002.

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• The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

  Aristotle

  Fear, Men, Evil

  Aristotle (1885). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.185, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I refrain from lots of things I love, like cheese and carbs. I eat plenty of greens every day, my favorite being watercress.

  Chloe Sevigny

  Things I Love, Cheese, My Favorite

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• Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

  Simone Weil

  Art, Two, Effort

  Simone Weil (2015). “First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge”, p.42, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Revenge, Imitation, Best Revenge

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• We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Past, Trying

  Keynote address at the Open Source Convention, July 24, 2002.

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• Freedom is about stopping the past.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Past, Stopping

  Lawrence Lessig's keynote address at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) in Portland, Oregon, July 24, 2002.

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• Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Courage, Heart

  William Shakespeare, Roma Gill (2004). “Macbeth”, p.35, Oxford University Press, USA

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• 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

  Children, West, Population

  Germaine Greer (1985). “Sex and destiny: the politics of human fertility”

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• Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

  Horace

  Life, Everyday, Asking

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• In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.

  Andre Gide

  Happiness, Past, Order

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• You should respect each other and refrain from disputes; you should not, like water and oil, repel each other, but should, like milk and water, mingle together.

  Gautama Buddha

  Respect, Oil, Water

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• I consider anybody who weighs over 200 pounds fat, and time was when I could not refrain from telling such people so.

  Gloria Swanson

  Eugenics, People, Pounds

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• Sometimes our power resides not in what we do, but in what we don't do.

  Paulo Coelho

  Sometimes

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Oct 15, 2011

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• Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Veterans Day, Peace, Military

  Address to joint meeting of Congress, 19 Apr. 1951

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• It is part of the irony of life that the strongest feelings of devoted gratitude of which human nature seems to be susceptible, are called forth in human beings towards those who, having the power entirely to crush their earthly existence, voluntarily refrain from using that power.

  John Stuart Mill

  Crush, Gratitude, Feelings

  John Stuart Mill (1970). “The Subjection of Women”, p.34, MIT Press

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• If we truly think of Christ as our source of holiness, we shall refrain from anything wicked or impure in thought or act and thus show ourselves to be worthy bearers of his name. For the quality of holiness is shown not by what we say but by what we do in life.

  Gregory of Nyssa

  Life, Christian, Jesus

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• Refrain from the violence of fist, tongue or heart. And heart is real important.

  Alveda King

  Real, Heart, Important

  Source: saynsumthn.wordpress.com

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• The more we witness our emotional reactions and understand how they work, the easier it is to refrain.

  Pema Chodron

  Emotional, Meditation, Easier

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