Freedom is about stopping the past.

Thou shalt abstain, Renounce, refrain.

Generosity knows how to count, but refrains.

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

I refrain from blaming anything on my parents.

To refrain from all injustice renders us also humane.

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

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

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.

If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn’t hesitate to do so.

If you want people to take action,you must refrain from giving them the answers.

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

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

The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Even with the right political climate, would the wrong people refrain from doing the wrong thing?

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

Never stray from life's purpose. Refrain from counting someone else's blessings instead of your own.

I'm not going to just refrain from giving information I hear just because it might upset some people.

Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out.

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

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

We must not demonstrate any arrogance, and we must refrain from any irrational or undemocratic behavior.

When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack.

I think I'm going to refrain from criticizing Apple too much. I mean, that's been a pretty great company.

If Ambassador Grenell is unwilling to refrain from political statements, he should be recalled immediately.

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

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

I can, of course, think what I want, just like everyone else. I simply have to refrain from saying everything I think.

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

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

We treat them in the same way. Those who kill our women and innocent, we kill their women and innocent, until they refrain.

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

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.

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

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

Well, thanks for not shooting anyone, I guess", said Marcus. "My contribution was to somehow refrain from peeing myself. You can thank me later.

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

I try to refrain from the alarmist statement, really I do. It's bad for the liver and worries the dog, who has plenty enough to worry about as it is.

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.

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.

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.

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.

That does not mean that we must forego just and fair criticism, or refrain from opposition to policies which are debatable or which do not command our approval.

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