Desist Quotes

#1. Marriages only work well when both sides desist from keeping scorecards of each other's performance.

Sheila Wray Gregoire

#2. Think twice before you buy. Decide before you purchase anything where you are going to keep it and what you are going to use it for. If your answers to either of these questions are vague, then you are about to purchase clutter. Desist from buying.

Karen Kingston

#3. Completely desist from defending your point of view. When you have no point to defend, you do not allow the birth of an argument.

Deepak Chopra

#4. We church members must cease and desist becoming "I want" members and become "I will" members.

Thom S. Rainer

#5. My son, by all means desist from kicking the venerable and enlightened Vizier: for as a costly jewel retains its value even if hidden in a dung-hill, so old age and discretion are to be respected even in the vile persons of our subjects. Desist therefore, and tell us what you desire and propose.

C.S. Lewis

#6. I call on all scientists in all countries to cease and desist from work creating, developing, improving and manufacturing further nuclear weapons - and, for that matter, other weapons of potential mass destruction such as chemical and biological weapons.

Hans Bethe

#7. You can just never desist. You have to always push back, whatever the pressures put on you.

Michael Arad

#8. When you feel you cannot do good, at least desist from doing evil.

Sathya Sai Baba

#9. I will desist;
... But there is something glows upon my cheek,
And whispers in mine ear, 'Go not till he speak.

William Shakespeare

#10. This is a fault common to singers that among their friends they were never inclined to sing when they were asked, unasked they never desist.

Horace

#11. When midlist writers are treated like dirt, I would desist were I less stubborn and less committed.

Marge Piercy

#12. It would be so simple to allow children, when tired of sitting, to rise, and when tired of writing, to desist, and then their bones would not be twisted.

Maria Montessori

#13. Sorrow and self-pity consume enormous quantities of energy. If you only can desist from feeling victimized by fate and look for a new solution instead, not only would you conserve old energies but at the same time also feel the surge of the new. New hope is kindled in the process.

G.R. Gopinath

#14. Often, city fathers blamed prostitutes for the disease, and some threatened to brand their cheeks with hot iron if they did not desist from their vices.

Peter Lewis Allen

#15. When she'd finally cranked up her favorite Godsmack CD in an effort to tune him out, he'd let out a roar that had rattled the windows in her car: By all that's holy, woman, what is that hideous noise? Cease and desist! A battlefield at full charge could be no more cacophonous!

Karen Marie Moning

#16. Nothing made him desist except his own lamentable state of demoralization.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#17. In the age of ideologies, we must make up our minds about murder. If murder has rational foundations, then our period and we ourselves have significance. If it has no such foundations, then we are plunged into madness there is no way out except to find some significance or to desist.

Albert Camus

#18. Ye Hypocrites, are these your pranks
To murder men and gie God thanks
Desist for shame, proceed no further
God won't accept your thanks for murder.

Robert Burns

#19. [Humans'] capacity to intervene, to compare, to judge, to decide, to choose, to desist makes them capable of acts of greatness, of dignity, and, at the same time, of the unthinkable in terms of indignity.

Paulo Freire

#20. To refrain and desist from interfering with terminal cancer patients, in their use of Laetrile acquired through the 'Affidavit System.

Luther L. Bohanon

#21. Don't screen unless you can do something for those patients discovered early that would produce an overall benefit to their lives. Otherwise, cease and desist.

Alan Cassels

#22. I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.

Charles Lamb

#23. To desist from a continual hurt is to discover purpose

Sunday Adelaja

#24. Violence especially against women and children is a abomination that must cease and desist! Humanity will never find world peace as long as we keep on hurting and destroying each other!

Timothy Pina

#25. Incidentally, I have also learned a bit about the importance of avoiding feminine embarrassment ('Daddy,' wrote Sophia when she enrolled at the New School where I teach, 'people will ask "why is old Christopher Hitchens kissing that girl?"') and shall now cease and desist.

Christopher Hitchens

#26. When will you desist playing tour guide?" he asked. "I should think never. It is the greatest aspiration of my life to give historic tours," Cinderella lied

K.M. Shea

#27. Our people must be taught to desist from accepting bribes. The ability to say NO, must become a core value of our nation

Sunday Adelaja

#28. The foolish undertake a trifling act, and soon desist, discouraged; wise men engage in mighty works, and persevere.

Magha

#29. This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.

Horace

#30. It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.

Dalai Lama