Abstainer's Quotes

#1. Be proud to act like a normal human being. Keep daylight hours, get a regular job, and mix in the company of people with a fixed sense of right and wrong.
The Abstainer's Handbook (second edition, p. 89)

Matt Haig

#2. Change only happens in the present moment. The past is already done. The future is just energy and intention.

Kino MacGregor

#3. We no longer want to be a province that is unlike the others, we want to be a country [that will be] like the others.

Pierre Bourgault

#4. A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.

Ambrose Bierce

#5. Now that I know I'm an Upholder, an Abstainer, a Marathoner, a Finisher, and a Lark, and have spent a lot of time thinking about what is, and isn't, important to me, I'm much better able to shape my habits.

Gretchen Rubin

#6. Riches and the things that are necessary in life are not evil in themselves. And all of us face cares and troubles in this life. The sin comes in the time and energy we spend in pursuing these things, at the expense of neglecting Christ.

David Wilkerson

#7. Relaxing, embracing, surrendering, trusting - these are the only tools of a lover of truth. So, turn from warrior into a lover.

Brandon Bays

#8. Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#9. Only look to Jesus. He died for you, died in your place, died under the frowns of heaven, that we might die under its smile.

John Fletcher

#10. Courtesy is the foundation of all good manners.

William Riley Brooksher

#11. I believe that the greatest teachers create thinking students.

David F. Swensen

#12. Wine had such ill effects on Noah's health that it was all he could do to live 950 years. Show me a total abstainer that ever lived that long.

Will Rogers

#13. Still the noise in the mind: that is the first task - then everything else will follow in time.

R. Murray Schafer

#14. Your destiny grows clearer, Jason Grace. When the choice comes again- storm or fire- remember me. And do not despair.

Rick Riordan

#15. I'm a recovering abstainer

Dean Cavanagh

#16. I give nightly praise to my Maker that I never cast a ballot to bring that lazy, disreputable, ill-tempered beast into what was once my home. I'm glad that I had the courage to go on record as opposing that illegitimate, shameless flea-bag that now shares my bed and board. You abstainer, you!

Frank B. Gilbreth Jr.

#17. The very notion that a candidate should openly solicit votes violated the principled presumption that such behavior itself represented a confession of unworthiness for national office.

Joseph J. Ellis

#18. Like Dr. Johnson, I'm an Abstainer: I find it far easier to give up something altogether than to indulge moderately. And this distinction has profound implications for habits.

Gretchen Rubin

#19. Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

Ambrose Bierce

#20. I am back in Los Angeles after a very successful run in Chicago as Billy Flynn.

Greg Evigan

#21. An abstainer is the sort of man you wouldn't want to drink with even if he did.

George Jean Nathan

#22. Unless I am mistaken, it was Mr. Welch himself (an adamant total abstainer) who persuaded American Protestantism to abandon what the Lord obviously thought rather kindly of.

Robert Farrar Capon

#23. All that is worth cherishing in this world begins in the heart, not the head.

Suzanne Chazin

#24. Cats themselves may be very chatty, but they seem to resent it in anyone else. Cats like listeners.

Robin Hobb

#25. The bike crunches along the gravel path, weaving around the potholes that could present danger to someone who didn't know the road like the back of their hand.

Jane Green

#26. In elections in Iceland, I have always been an abstainer. It seems like politics is such a small bundle of self-important people, who don't have much to do with things I'm interested in.

Bjork