#refrain

I refrain from lots of things I love, like cheese and carbs. I eat plenty of greens every day, my favorite being watercress. ↗

— Chloe Sevigny

#carbs #cheese #day #eat #every

I consider anybody who weighs over 200 pounds fat, and time was when I could not refrain from telling such people so. ↗

— Gloria Swanson

#consider #could #fat #i #over

When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack. ↗

— Jack Henry Abbott

#circumstances #crowd #forced #i #i can

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness. ↗

— Aristotle

#because #brings #evil #fear #generality

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known? ↗

— William Shakespeare

#could #had #heart #known #love

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#afford #because #cannot #childbirth #children

Refrain at all times from such Foods as cannot be procured without violence and oppression. ↗

— Thomas Tryon

#foods #oppression #procured #refrain #such

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#construct #destruction #efforts #human #noblest

We treat them in the same way. Those who kill our women and innocent, we kill their women and innocent, until they refrain. ↗

— Osama bin Laden

#kill #our #refrain #same #their

Remember the refrain: We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us. Freedom is about stopping the past, but we have lost that ideal. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

#always #build #freedom #ideal #lost