Abstains From Quotes

#1. If the large power voluntarily abstains from using its full power or feels the strategic situation to be such that it cannot do so, it in effect loses the advantage of being a big power.

Elliot Richardson

#2. He who abstains from anything animate ... will be much more careful not to injure those of his own species. For he who loves the genus will not hate any species of animals.

Porphyry

#3. If a man deliberately abstains from wine to such an extent that he does serious harm to his nature, he will not be free from blame.

Thomas Aquinas

#4. TEETOTALER, n. One who abstains from strong drink, sometimes totally, sometimes tolerably totally.

Ambrose Bierce

#5. Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.

George Eliot

#6. The true smoker abstains from imitating Vesuvius.

Auguste-Marseille Barthelemy

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

Ambrose Bierce

#8. Who is there that abstains from reading that which is printed in abuse of himself?

Anthony Trollope

#9. Every person born in this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.

Martin Buber

#10. I went back outside and manually released my butt cheeks.

Tina Fey

#11. I was born in 1971, and Tom Baker was sort of my obsession as a kid and that's why we got him to do the voice over for 'Little Britain' because I was actually obsessed with Tom Baker.

David Walliams

#12. I am whole just as I am. I am defined not by my life experiences but by how I let them affect me and how I handle myself in each situation.

Lily Collins

#13. The town was Newport, Rhode Island, U.S.A., Earth, Solar System, Milky Way. The walls were those of the Rumfoord estate.

Kurt Vonnegut

#14. Nowadays, my mood ungoverned, I'm free to think the most outrageous things, such as: might it not be a good idea to insist that drug companies give their preparations names that tell the user what they really do?

Will Self

#15. It is good to know there are some true knights still.

George R R Martin

#16. The whole f**king system is corrupt.

Frank Serpico

#17. The good or bad is not in the circumstance, but only in the mind ... that encounters it.

William James

#18. You can tell a person, not by what they say they are gratitude for, but how they respect what they claim to be grateful for.

Davina Veronica

#19. From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.

Francois Rabelais

#20. I knew that you couldn't make a living simply writing about the outdoors, so I made an effort from the beginning of my freelance career to write about other subjects.

Jon Krakauer

#21. That love has to always exist,

Paul Wesley