Abstained Quotes

#1. man had blandly abstained. He had been right: it would have lost him money. But not in Scotland,

Dorothy Dunnett

#2. When the students were killed at Kent State, the cast voted to do a demonstration from the stage, and I abstained.

Holly Near

#3. Complacent eligible voters who abstained from voting because "I don't like either candidate" - provided a deadly assist. You are the collective of assassins responsible for slaughtering the America of hope and progress.

Afro Bo Peep

Erin Passons

#4. I never did a right thing or abstained from a wrong one from any consideration of reward or punishment.

Harriet Martineau

#5. I want to make an extremely strong appeal to those who abstained. Vote. It takes five minutes and then it's for five years.

Laurent Fabius

#6. Now, Megan, we can't pick on whoever abstained.

Lisa Scottoline

#7. We abstained from having sex until we got married.

Ali Landry

#8. I want the shining gravel in a dark brook. I want the sparkle of the stone beneath the rays of sun, I want death that frees me. I could manage to have pleasure if I abstained from thinking. Then I'd feel the ebb and flow of air in my lungs.

Clarice Lispector

#9. Last year I abstained
this year I devour
without guilt
which is also an art

Margaret Atwood

#10. Instead of asking yourself whether you believe or not, ask yourself whether you have, this day, done one thing because He said, Do it! or once abstained because He said, Do not do it! It is simply absurd to say you believe, or even want to believe, in Him, if you do not do anything He tells you.

George MacDonald

#11. What difference does the uniform make? You don't hit with it.

Yogi Berra

#12. If you work around at-risk teen students, actually tell them you love them and have faith in their success. No one tells them that. No one.

Ace Antonio Hall

#13. Each Wal-Mart store should reflect the values of its customers and support the vision they hold for their community.

Sam Walton

#14. Making the case (for same-sex marriage) from a conservative values perspective is an imperative, not an option.

Ken Mehlman

#15. In a world of diminishing mystery, the unknown persists.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#16. Got 27 children I never see.

Tom Waits

#17. As soon as she says this, I realize she is just like everyone else, and wish I was back at home so that all the things I do not understand could be the same as they always are.

Claire Keegan

#18. Science keeps religion from sinking into the valley of crippling irrationalism and paralyzing obscurantism. Religion prevents science from falling into the marsh of obsolete materialism and moral nihilism.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#19. Time spent with poets is never wasted.

May Sarton

#20. I am a writer and I want to write.

Jane Bowles

#21. Giving up is what kills people.

Kohta Hirano

#22. When I was a kid, I wasn't looking at the small-budget films myself. I was looking at 'James Bond' and all the major films, so I still have that energy. I still love those films.

Mads Mikkelsen

#23. The number one reason most people don't get what they want is that they don't know what they want.

T. Harv Eker