Refrain Quotes

If anyone does not refrain from the love of money, he will be defiled by idolatry and so be judged as if he were one of the heathen.

Love, and do what you will. If you keep silence, do it out of love. If you cry out, do it out of love. If you refrain from punishing, do it out of love.

On the set of Besharam I had to refrain from smoking, out of respect for my parents

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

When will talkers refrain from evil speaking: when listeners refrain from evil-hearing.

One is not a great one because one defeats or harms other living beings. One is so called because one refrains from defeating or harming other living beings.

I plead with you to have the courage to refrain from judging and criticizing those around you, as well as the courage to make certain that everyone is included and feels loved and valued.

I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.

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

Let us ask what is best - not what is customary. Let us love temperance - let us be just - let us refrain from bloodshed.

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

Freedom is about stopping the past.

What is most important is to cease legislating for all lives what is liveable only for some, and similarly, to refrain from proscribing for all lives what is unlivable for some.

Thou shalt abstain, Renounce, refrain.

Refrain from throwing your bicycle in public. It shows poor upbringing

There's an old blues refrain: I begged for water, you gave me gasoline.

I am a very shy person who is just close to himself. So I would refrain from talking about my personal life.

The good refrain from sin from the pure love of virtue.

Eva [Braun] also cried when [Adolf Hitler] would leave her for long periods. She was inconsolable without him, that was a never-changing refrain.

It is possible to have words come to your mind, and still refrain from speaking them aloud.

Generosity knows how to count, but refrains.

I cannot refrain from saying that women must come to recognize there is some function of womanhood other than being a child-bearing machine.

That, Senators, is what a favour from gangs amounts to. They refrain from murdering someone; then they boast that they have spared him!

Who will in time present pleasure refrain, shall in time to come the more pleasure obtain.

Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.