Quotes About Abstain

If there is any society among robbers and murderers, they must at least . . . abstain from robbing and murdering one another.

The Manicheans believed the world was filled with imprisoned light, fragments of a God who destroyed himself because he no longer wished to exist. This light could be found trapped inside man and animals and plants, and the Manichean mission was to try to release it. Because of this, they abstained from sex, viewing babies as fresh prisons of entrapped light.

The Manicheans believed the world was filled with imprisoned light, fragments of a God who destroyed himself because he no longer wish to exist. This light could be found trapped inside a man and animals and plants, and the Manichean mission was to try to release it. Because of this, they abstained from sex, viewing babies as fresh prisons of entrapped light.

I abstain from trying Punjabi cuisine because it is extra oily.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

Make no mistake: Deciding to abstain from the Pledge of Allegiance does communicate something, and therefore, it is a form of speech. It's also a form of peaceful protest, the right to which is another one of our values.

don't insult myself by giving to dreams a value they do not have, apart from that of being my personal theatre, just as I do not call wine (from which I still do not abstain) 'food' or 'one of life's necessities'.

I dream because I dream, but I don't insult myself by giving to dreams a value they do not have, apart from that of being my personal theatre, just as I do not call wine (from which I still do not abstain) 'food' or 'one of life's necessities'.

I don't sing. I do everybody a favor and I don't sing.

I think it actually is easier for players to abstain from watching than it is for people who haven't experienced it. I know a wide variety of former players that don't really follow football any more. They've kind of had that cathartic experience. They know what it is.

To abstain from action is well—except to acquire merit.' 'At the Gates of Learning we were taught that to abstain from action was unbefitting a Sahib.

When in doubt, do without.

"there is some s. I will not eat"

Just say no.

I don't do alcohol anymore — I get the same effect just standing up fast.

I can't eat bread, anything fried, or even drink a beer.

I think the hardest thing, really, is trying not to write.

Ô, wine!, the truth-serum so potent that all those who wish to live happy lives should abstain from drinking it entirely!... except of course when they are alone.

Remove yourself from temptation. Don't even look at something if you know you shouldn't have it.

A person who does think of his brain can't drink liquor or wine, feels often pain in life and remains away from women.

It seems a pity, but I do not think I can write more.

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. May not one lost soul be permitted to abstain?

I don't even drink! I can't stand the taste of alcohol. Every New Year's Eve I try one drink and every time it makes me feel sick. So I don't touch booze - I'm always the designated driver.