In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.
Pythagoras
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Election time means time out. There is a strong argument for refraining from doing dramatic things right now.
Shlomo Avineri
We try to refrain from making value judgments -- what the motive is. But the fact is that (Wal-Mart was) there with trailer trucks being turned away. Amazing, isn't it?
Gerald Celente
We treat them in the same way. Those who kill our women and innocent, we kill their women and innocent, until they refrain.
Osama Bin Laden
I'm going to be very strict on both sides - committee members and testifiers - that we refrain from personal stuff.
Paul Weissmann
We're just asking that when you do come home, don't turn on the air conditioner, don't use your dish washer during the 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. period. Try to refrain from washing clothes during that period.
Jose Dizon
We are proposing to define the budget deficit excluding oil revenues, instead of immediately cutting spending, and to refrain from increasing [the deficit].
Alexei Kudrin
Refrain at all times from such Foods as cannot be procured without violence and oppression.
Thomas Tryon
While we are disappointed in Jason's lack of judgment and self-control, we will refrain from further comment out of respect to the judicial system.
Mark Shapiro
One almost expects [one of the players] to peer into the monitor and politely request viewers to refrain from munching so loudly on cheese and crackers while the golfers are trying to read the greens.
Peter Alfano
I urge special interest groups to put emotions aside and refrain from making baseless accusations.
Charles Siebert
Living apart and at peace with myself, I came to realize more vividly the meaning of the doctrine of acceptance. To refrain from giving advice, to refrain from meddling in the affairs of others, to refrain, even though the motives be the highest, from tampering with another's way of life - so simple, yet so difficult for an active spirit. Hands off!
Henry Miller
I call on all parties to accept the verdict of the ballot box and to refrain from rhetoric which may fuel division in Ukraine.
Terry Davis
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
Aleister Crowley
The comprehensive initiative will lead to a breakthrough in the currently stranded nuclear negotiations with Europe, if the Europeans refrain from any precondition they have set on the negotiations.
Hamid reza Asefi
An investigation continues but at this point there is no evidence of improper acts by any specific individual or slate of candidates. I urge all parties to the election process to refrain from accusations against other candidates.
Steve Hensley
Euro weakness could be more powerful than renewed dollar strength because sovereigns could refrain from divesting some of their U.S. dollar holdings.
Manfred Wolf
The Danish government urges all leaders, political and religious, in the countries concerned to call on their populations to remain calm and refrain from violence.
Per Stig Moeller
To Err is human; to refrain from laughing, humane.
Lane Olinghouse
Good work done with bad intentions inevitably leads to failure. That is why one should refrain from evil tendencies.
Yajur Veda
There are many fine ideals which are not realisable, and yet we do not refrain from teaching them.
Peretz Smolenskin
We do not have influence or leverage to convince the Chinese to change their regulation or refrain from enforcing them.
Jack Krumholtz
When the sparrow sings its final refrain, the hush is felt nowhere more deeply than in the heart of man.
Don Williams, Jr
It has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain when awake.
Mark Twain
You know, we still have a lot of debris from the storm. So much stuff needs cleaning up that people just need to refrain from burning.
Greg Chatham
Just as the right to speak and the right to refrain from speaking are complementary components of a broader concept of individual freedom of mind, so also the individual's freedom to choose his own creed is the counterpart of his right to refrain from accepting the creed established by the majority.
John Paul Stevens
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
To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
Marcus Aurelius
For us, holding on to religious rules, and following them, and refraining from what's forbidden, and being diligent with our duties, what do we call that? That's what we call freedom.
Muqtada Al Sadr
I think we should refrain from further comment.
John Henry Cardinal Newman
The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner.
Margaret Halsey
Being a good Muslim. Hussain should know the worldwide reaction over caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad in a Danish newspaper. He too should refrain from repeatedly hurting the sentiments of Hindus.
Vinay Katiyar
A pretty girl is like a melody That haunts you night and day Just like the strain Of a haunting refrain She'll start upon A marathon And run around your brain.
Irving Berlin
We'll refrain from commenting on General Edmondson's tactics.
Matt Decample
If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn't hesitate to do so.
Andre Gide
What is the good way? It is the path that reflects on how it may avoid killing any living creature. Refrain from taking precious life from any living being, even to save your own life.
The Tirukural
The Secretary-General appeals for calm and calls on all Sudanese to refrain from actions which may lead to tension during this time of mourning.
Stephane Dujarric
My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.
Olive Schreiner
The majority holds that a baseball pitcher owes no duty to refrain from intentionally throwing a baseball at an opposing player's head. This is a startling conclusion.
Justice Joyce Kennard
As long as outside groups, including labor unions, refrain from airing any TV or radio ads dealing with the U.S. Senate race in New York, the Republican Party pledges to do the same.
Bill Powers
So long as we refuse to include lottery tickets among the symphonies, or medical bulletins among the overtures, we must refrain from treating the emotions as an aesthetic monopoly of music in general or a certain piece of music in particular.
Eduard Hanslick
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