Top 35 Quotes About Abstaining
#1. I'm the worst ad anyone could possibly be for abstaining from anything.
Matt Roper
#2. Abstaining from speech marks him who is obeying the spontaneity of his nature.
Lao-Tzu
#3. Plato says that the punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is, to live under the government of worse men; and the like regret is suggested to all the auditors, as the penalty of abstaining to speak,
that they shall hear worse orators than themselves.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#4. I'm abstaining from romance and the discussion of romance.
Lauren Mayberry
#5. We will train both mind and body when we accustom ourselves to cold, heat, thirst, hunger, scarcity of food, hardness of bed, abstaining from pleasures, and enduring pains
Anonymous
#6. Logic was, formerly, the art of drawing inferences; it has now become the art of abstaining from inferences, since it has appeared that the inferences we feel naturally inclined to make are hardly ever valid.
Bertrand Russell
#7. Virtue is not to be considered in the light of mere innocence, or abstaining from harm; but as the exertion of our faculties in doing good.
Joseph Butler
#8. I had come in stages to a different belief about how one should be in this life. I now felt convinced that the greater part of a man's duty consists in abstaining from much that he is in the habit of consuming.
Geraldine Brooks
#9. Abstaining so as really to enjoy, is the epicurism, the very perfection, of reason.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#10. This is not what anyone wants to hear, just like somebody who wants to lose weight doesn't want to hear 'diet and exercise,' but I think giving yourself time and abstaining from interaction is the only way to get over somebody.
Julie Klausner
#11. Though there are very serious disadvantages about being a true believer. Who would want four wives at any time, especially when one pays for the doubtful privilege by abstaining from wine?
C.S. Forester
#13. Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.
W.C. Fields
#14. Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war, but on the love of peace. It will not be the abstaining from an act, but the coming of a state of mind.
Herman Wouk
#15. Ethan: "Abstaining definitely doesn't work."
Beth: "what do you suggest?"
Ethan: "We're obviously going to have to make love often, but keep the encounters from getting too intense." He sounded perfectly serious, like he really believed what he was saying.
Lucy Monroe
#16. Invites us to jump off the hamster wheel of consumption and experience the pinch of abstaining from thoughtless indulgence.
Anonymous
#17. An artist needs knowledge and the power of observation only so that he can tell from what he is abstaining, and to be sure that his abstention will not appear artificial or false.
Andrei Tarkovsky
#18. By abstaining from all definite content, whether as formal logic and theory of science or as the legend of Being beyond all beings, philosophy declared its bankruptcy regarding concrete social goals.
Theodor Adorno
#19. Politics is the force that channels social, cultural, and economic powers and makes them imminent in our lives. Abstaining from politics is like turning your back on a beast when it is angry and intent on ripping your guts out.
John Ralston Saul
#20. Paraphrased: The way of al-Junayd includes among other things abstaining constantly from resisting God Most High in whatever happens to one, whether good or bad ...
Ibn Ata Allah
#21. Solitude The creation of an open, empty space in our lives by purposefully abstaining from interaction with other human beings, so that, freed from competing loyalties, we can be found by God The
Richard J. Foster
#22. Christianity, said Erasmus, has been made to consist not in loving one's neighbor but in abstaining from butter and cheese during Lent.
Roland H. Bainton
#23. Make no choice, and you have chosen. Failure to decide, because you lack the right, is itself a decision, First Councilor. In abstaining, you vote.
George R R Martin
#24. I remember growing up singing; even when I was just three years old, I was singing all the time in the house. My parents said I was singing before I could even talk properly.
Tori Kelly
#25. The old lose one of the greatest privileges of man, for they are no longer judged by their contemporaries.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#26. The only reason for being a writer, is that you can't help it.
Josh Billings
John F. Beckman
#27. Om is a living phenomenon and it has its own mood. Depending on its mood the meaning will be revealed to you.
Amit Ray
#29. I'm fourteen years old; that's almost half-way to thirty. I need my own space.
Alex Mack
#30. Well, I couldn't exactly choose the person I wanted, could I?
Victoria Aveyard
#31. I force myself to think of anything but the one thing that I'm actually always thinking about. And that is so exhausting that I sleep more than I ever have.
Holly Goldberg Sloan
#32. our minds wander off into all kinds of stories and fabrications and manufactured realities,
Pema Chodron
#33. Aw, you're nothing but heart, Mako. Nice valentine in your skull, by the way. Is that temporary or did the Tanaka-kai change their daimon to attract the Powerpuff Girls crowd?
Elle Lothlorien
#34. Every town in America had at least one, two, or maybe three radio stations that played rock 24 hours a day. In England, we had a rock specialist on for two hours a week.
Joe Elliott
#35. So many that had died on the scaffold and many more to die including, though she did not know it then, her own son.
Edna O'Brien
