Refrained From Quotes

#1. About two hours afterwards Gethryn discovered a suitable retort, but, coming to the conclusion that better late than never does not apply to repartees, refrained from speaking it.

P.G. Wodehouse

#2. When I first arrived in London, I so quickly tired of being surrounded by so many people that it was only with great difficulty that I refrained from seizing the next unfortunate who crossed my path and committing violent acts upon their person.

Cassandra Clare

#3. a girl in her twenties who might have been pretty had she refrained from drawing her eyebrows on with a marker.

Tosca Lee

#4. Since Adam and Eve ate the apple, man has never refrained from any folly of which he was capable.

Bertrand Russell

#5. I sedulously refrained from doing anything that would incite slaves to run away from their masters.

Hiram Rhodes Revels

#6. He was religious, but had refrained from allowing his religious ideals to be obscured by a god.

Henning Mankell

#7. Was floozy the kind of job that required good references? Matt doubted it, but he refrained from saying so.

Josh Lanyon

#8. You have behaved in an exemplary manner until now. Even when you could have gained by doing something wrong, you refrained from doing so. You didn't fall prey to the logic of doing a small wrong for the sake of the greater good; of the ends justifying the means. That takes moral courage.

Amish Tripathi

#9. A good deal of confusion could be avoided, if we refrained from setting before the group, what can be the aim only of the individual; and before society as a whole, what can be the aim only of the group.

T. S. Eliot

#10. The tango, by 1914, had been officially declared immoral, and dancers went through its showy steps under threat of being dragged off the floor to jail unless light was visible between the partners and they refrained from doing any demoralizing dance steps, like "snake-wiggling" at the shoulders.

Christine Wiltz

#11. As a child, I was hyper, I was a clown and I was sensitive. Today I'm all of the above, except I've refrained from bouncing off the walls.

Nadine Velazquez

#12. I would appreciate it if you refrained from neutering any of my pack mates, witch.

Milly Taiden

#13. Our lab had always refrained from keeping our studies secret.

Peter Agre

#14. Brentford gave the polite smile of a man who talks daily with a living mechanical head about a city in the Arctic Circle governed by hermaphrodite Siamese twins born from a dead woman, and refrained from further comments about the probable and improbable.

Jean-Christophe Valtat

#15. A single doctor, with the body of a Greek god, sat across from me at a candlelit table, and all I could think about was a greasy-fingered motorcycle mechanic.
I refrained from smacking my own forehead.

Lisa Kessler

#16. As a musician, I have always refrained from criticizing another artist.

Jill Sobule

#17. At Yale, most everyone (except Oswaldo Gutierrez) refrained from telling Rob what to do, because of the way he'd grown up in Newark. In Newark, most everyone (except Oswaldo Gutierrez) refrained from telling Rob what to do, because of the way he'd gone to Yale.

Jeff Hobbs

#18. I refrained from writing another one, thinking to myself: Never mind, I will prove that I am able to become a greater scientist than some of you, even without the title of doctor.

Hermann Oberth

#19. It is good to exercise patience. But never let your patience be the type that will keep you refrained from acting.

Israelmore Ayivor

#20. Yes, Harry, you can love, said Dumbledore, who looked as though he knew perfectly well what Harry had just refrained from saying. Which, given everything that has happened to you, is a great and remarkable thing.

J.K. Rowling

#21. I think for more than half of my career, I have refrained from talking to the media.

Kathleen Battle

#22. In the examples that I here bring in of what I have [read], heard, done or said, I have refrained from daring to alter even the smallest and most indifferent circumstances. My conscience falsifies not an iota; for my knowledge I cannot answer.

Michel De Montaigne

#23. Here today, up and off to somewhere else tomorrow! Travel, change, interest, excitement! The whole world before you, and a horizon that's always changing!

Kenneth Grahame

#24. There. But as they were in a public place and as she was dressed like a nun, he refrained. "Come, hurry!" he said

Christopher Buckley

#25. Obama's drone program, in fact, amounts to the largest unmanned aerial offensive ever conducted in military history: never have so few killed so many by remote control.

Michael Hastings

#26. My other treasure was my virginity, and I'd thought of selling it too, years back, to the steward's hunchback son. I had refrained, holding out -I told myself- for a higher bidder. Now I fancied myself ruler of an impregnable realm.

Sandra Gulland

#27. Was tempted to quote Walden - "Why should I feel lonely? Is not our planet in the Milky Way?" - but refrained. How can I get lonely, I asked, when there's still so much to read?

H.P. Lovecraft

#28. Thankfully, I'm lucky enough to be able to eat ice cream. I've got to have my cookies and cream! But I work out a lot, so I burn a lot of calories.

Adrian Peterson

#29. I had a good mind to discontinue permanently the supply of grain to the city, reliance on which had discouraged Italian agriculture, but refrained because some politician would be bound one day to revive the dole as a means of ingratiating himself with the people.

Augustus

#30. have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once.

Anonymous

#31. People are not machines, but in all situations where they are given the opportunity, they will act like machines.

Ludwig Von Bertalanffy

#32. True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion.

Corliss Lamont

#33. I mistook stars reflected in a pond at night for those in the sky.

Andrzej Sapkowski