Refrained 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. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

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

Milly Taiden

#16. 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

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

Kathleen Battle

#18. 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

#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. 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

#21. 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

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

Jill Sobule

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. 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

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

Peter Agre

#28. The firm has two cats, one for the warehouse and one for the attic. Now it occasionally happen that the two cats met; and the result was always a terrific fight. The aggressor was always the warehouse cat yet it was always the attic cat who managed to win - just like among nations.

Anne Frank

#29. How much longer are we going to do this? We have to talk about what happened."
With a harsh laugh, he'd turned to me. "It's very simple. I want you, you want another, and I'm owed a wife.

Kresley Cole

#30. I'd lost all track of time. It was only now that I was no longer preoccupied holding on to the werewolf's back for dear life that I glanced at my watch. Ten o'clock. "Crap. I need to get home now. It's past nine-thirty.

Bella Forrest

#31. Walking into a room filled with people you don't know but who know you brings out your worst vulnerabilities.

Jessica Savitch

#32. We've been doing this here since 1968, so we have been identified as an example of a free, democratic school, and many professors want to expose their students to our philosophy.

Daniel Greenberg

#33. People talk about that catch and, I've said this many times, that I've made better catches than that many times in regular season. But of course in my time, you didn't have a lot of television during the regular season. A lot of people didn't see me do a lot of things.

Willie Mays

#34. There is no need for that language, or for the yelling, I'm on the phone with you, not a thousand miles away. I can hear you perfectly."
He was such a dickhead

L.A. Casey

#35. The academic world doesn't invite you to try to walk on two feet all the time. And in philosophy especially ... it's a very intimidating place. The intimidation can be very thin, or it can stop you.

Stanley Cavell

#36. Even a room which must be dark needs at least a crack of light to know how dark it is.

Louis Kahn

#37. You don't strike me as the princess type."
"What's that suppose to mean?"
Daniel Smiled. "It means that I'd still go out of my way to rescue you, but you'd probably smack me across the head and try to slay the dragon yourself.

Jeyn Roberts

#38. The universe is a machine for the making of Gods.

Henri Bergson

#39. Ross Perot came and visited Apple several times and visited the Macintosh factory. Ross was a systems thinker.

John Sculley

#40. Mrs. Weslin was one of those women who had clearly had some work done. That or she had sold her soul to the devil and although that was probably a possibility, I was pretty sure none of the Weslins had souls to sell.

Joann I. Martin Sowles