Quotes About Refrain

To refrain is not the same thing as repression. To refrain is to hold the emotions and to express them in the right moment, not before, not later. That is why warriors are impeccable. They have complete control over their own emotions and therefore over their own behavior.

Belay that fuckery.

William wondered why he always disliked people who said 'no offense meant.' Maybe it was because they found it easier to to say 'no offense meant' than actually to refrain from giving offense.

Occasionally he would very nearly swear.

William wondered why he always disliked people who said "no offense meant." Maybe it was because they found it easier to say "no offense meant" than actually to refrain from giving offense.

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it . . .

You can't go around telling people what a monster your mother was on a day to day basis. It's unseemly.

In Phoenix summer is the title, the refrain, And every other verse.

There were certain places he always seemed to return to, squares or street corners, like refrains, points of convergence where the city doubled back on itself before escaping again around the corner.

Though name calling is an acceptable stage is a good fight. I could counter that by calling you an overprotective ass, but I'll refrain because I'm a lady.

Let me add, just in case, that experts on literary "schools" should wisely refrain this time from casually dragging in "the influence of German Impressionists": I do not know German and have never read the Impressionists—whoever they are.

Do you mind if I don't smoke?

Ever since they left Thies, the women had not stopped singing. As soon as one group allowed the refrain to die, another picked it up, and new verses were born at the hazard of chance or inspiration, one word leading to another and each finding, in its turn, its rhythm and its place. No one was very sure any longer where the song began, or if it had an ending. It rolled out over its own length, like the movement of a serpent. It was as long as a life.

Whiskey's to tough, Champagne costs too much, Vodka puts my mouth in gear. I hope this refrain, Will help me explain, As a matter of fact, I like beer.

As much a search for novelty, new tastes can be a conscious rejection of what has come before—and a distancing from those now enjoying that taste. "I liked that band before they got big," goes the common refrain.

There are any number of choice terms I could apply to you, several of them involving the barnyard. But since most of them would be an insult to the animals living there, I shall refrain from saying them aloud.

Run! I want to shout. But, of course, that's the one thing I don't need to tell her to do.

As an adult man now of forty-one years old I have often used this refrain to get people to do what I want them to do. I didn't know who else to turn to. It gives the person your trying to manipulate nowhere to go. Their only option is to capitulate.

The more we witness our emotional reactions and understand how they work, the easier it is to refrain.

There are a billion songs that I've heard and said, 'I don't even care to have an opinion about it,' but if I have to hear a snippet of the refrain of 'We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together' once, it'll get stuck in my head, and that drives me crazy.

can't hold my tongue.

At the root of all the harm we cause is ignorance. Through meditation, that's what we begin to undo. If we see that we have no mindfulness, that we rarely refrain, that we have little well-being, that is not confusion, that's the beginning of clarity. As

Never before—the great refrain of 1942.

When our mind works freely without any hindrance, and is at liberty to 'come' or to 'go', we attain Samadhi of Prajna, or liberation. Such a state is called the function of 'thoughtlessness'. But to refrain from thinking of anything, so that all thoughts are suppressed, is to be Dharma-ridden, and this is an erroneous view.