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Quotes About Refrain

The constant refrain of Islamizing a Muslim-majority country, coupled with the belief that this nation must always be in conflict with its largest neighbour because of religious differences, is in many ways at the heart of most of Pakistan's current problems.
~ Husain Haqqani
Shun all vice, especially card playing.
~ Nathan Hale
You promise not to fall for me, she said seriously. No matter how lovable I am? He wanted to smile at that but didn't want her to think he was making fun. She wanted his word, and he could give it easily enough, confident that as adorably sexy as she was, he could refrain from falling for her, since his heart felt dead in his chest. I promise.
~ Jill Shalvis
Being Classy is the refrain of blasphemy and the attitude to promote others (so to speak) and lift them up. Classiness never takes a rest, and before stating you are classy, you must show the others how classy you can be. Resist. Use manners extensively. Be overwhelmingly polite. And words like "capital" and "dapper" shall add to the project quite nicely.
~ Unknown
Is that how the song goes. It's the chorus!
~ Diana Palmer
Ele pegou minha mão. O gesto era como o de um bardo. Mas não estávamos em um tipo de canção? Esse era o refrão que tínhamos praticado com tanta frequência.
~ Madeline Miller
If a well-constituted individual refrains from blazoning aught amiss or calamitous in his family, a nation in the like circumstance may without reproach be equally discreet.
~ Herman Melville
Just keep mum and "block" them' you're told.
~ Mary Beard
One is taught to refrain from irony, because mankind does tend to take it literally. In the hearing of the gods, who hear all, it is conversely unsage to make a simple and direct statement. So what is one to do? The dilema needs a whole volume to itself.
~ Max Beerbohm
Nadie es una persona si no es la humanidad entera. REFRÁN DE NKOKOLANI
~ Mia Couto
But the urge is their own subconscious, which they can control, as proven by the sometimes long cooling-off periods during which they commit no murders, and by the fact that some of them refrain from murdering all their victims.
~ Unknown
Serial killers do experience cooling-off periods during which they either willingly refrain from murder, or they are incarcerated and unable to commit murder, or they move to another place where they carry on undetected.
~ Unknown
We are constantly haunted by the qualities of self-interest and that is why we struggle to refrain ourselves from making fools of our behaviours.
~ Unknown
According to scholars, religions can be boiled down to the three Bs, "behaving," "believing," and "belonging," but I, like many American Jews, don't do so good on these. Several generations ago Jews "behaved" more like Jews, or at least they would perform or refrain from certain behaviors because they were Jews.
~ Unknown
The "real" agenda of environmentalists—and the scientists who provided the data on which they relied—was to destroy capitalism and replace it with some sort of worldwide utopian Socialism—or perhaps Communism. That echoed a common right-wing refrain in the early 1990s: that environmental regulation was the slippery slope to Socialism. In 1992, columnist George Will encapsulated this view, saying that environmentalism was a "green tree with red roots.
~ Naomi Oreskes
The old men with their traditions challenged Refrained from tears.
~ Natalie Merchant
And when I was with you and in need, I was not a burden to anyone; for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied my needs. I have refrained from being a burden to you in any way, and I will continue to do so.
~ 2 Corinthians 11:9