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Dear Teens at Starbucks wearing 'Abstain from Sex 2 Attain Ur Goals' t-shirts: Doesn't it depend on what my goals are? — John Green

The only way to really have safe sex is to abstain. From drinking. — Wendy Liebman

The solemn pledge to abstain from telling the truth was called socialist realism. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I have consistently urged my friends to abstain from reading it. — Winston Churchill

Those who have castrated themselves from all sin for the sake of the kingdom of heaven, are blessed; they abstain from the world. — Clement Of Alexandria

I'm pro-responsible choice. There is choice to abstain, choice to do contraception. There are all kind of good choices. — Sharron Angle

I myself eschew all stimulants. I also practically abstain from meat. — Nikola Tesla

Couples should abstain from sexual relations at least 2 or 3 days a week. Gradually try to reach a stage of celibacy most days. — Mata Amritanandamayi

The more princes abstain from touching the wealth of their people, the greater will be their resources in the wants of the state. — Pulcheria

We have the power to abstain from destructive behavior. — Sylvia Earle

To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude. — Simone De Beauvoir

The future not being born, my friend, we will abstain from baptizing it. — George Meredith

Let hunger sharpen your awareness. Abstain liquor and frivolous recreation, which dull the mind and weaken the body. — Laura Joh Rowland

To abstain from condemning a torturer, is to become an accessory to the torture and murder of his victims. — Ayn Rand

A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others. — Ambrose Bierce

Pleasure causes us to do base actions and pain causes us to abstain from doing noble actions. — Aristotle.

We have not, it seems, the power to abstain from worship. Instead, we swallow the sweet poison, substituting lesser gods for God. — Philip Yancey

How can we abstain from sexual immorality? Only God can give us the grace. — Lailah Gifty Akita

And he who pursues pleasure will not abstain from injustice, and this is plainly impiety. — Marcus Aurelius

Though a man cannot abstain from being weak, he may from being vicious. — Joseph Addison

In doubt if an action is just, abstain. — Zoroaster

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

To abstain from violence toward the violent is to become their accomplice. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

We urge President Bush to abstain from the National Missile Defense, just as we urge China, India and Pakistan to discontinue their nuclear arsenals. — Anna Lindh

When we are in doubt whether an action is good or bad, abstain from it. — Zoroaster

you must reclaim the ability to abstain because within it is your clarity and self-control. — Ryan Holiday

Dear friends, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from sinful desires, which wage war against your soul. (1 PETER 2:11) — Lysa TerKeurst

I know not how to abstain from reading. — Samuel Pepys

Cannibal: epicures who abstain from alcohol and tobacco. As moral guides, they are underutilized in the police forces of modern societies. — Bauvard

Everything's so repressive now - it's the No generation. You can't do anything, you can't eat anything, you have to abstain. — Michael Douglas

Abstain from all sinful, unwholesome actions, perform only pious wholesome ones, purify the mind; this is the teaching of enlightened ones — Gautama Buddha

If only my heart could abstain
from love.

The more I seethe with desire
The more I seem to attract. — Hilda Ismail

It is folly to abstain all day long from food, but fail to abstain from sin and selfishness. — Saint John Chrysostom

1TH5.22 Abstain from all appearance of evil. — Anonymous

We live only to dance. If living were not an essential prerequisite, we would abstain. — Toni Bentley

When you doubt, abstain. — Ambrose Bierce

To abstain from lying is essentially wholesome. — Gautama Buddha

Say little. But when you speak, utter gentle words that touch the heart. Be truthful. Express kindness. Abstain from vanity. This is the way. — Dana Perino

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

Zoroaster said, when in doubt abstain; but this does not always apply. At cards, when in doubt take the trick. — Josh Billings

I am obliged to renounce violence, and abstain from it altogether. — Leo Tolstoy

I find it easier to abstain than do a little bit of anything. I'm not a 'little bit' kind of dame. I want it all, whatever I do. — Elaine Stritch

To abstain that we may enjoy is the epicurianism of reason. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Abstain from animals. — Pythagoras

so bad a thing is it to invade God's property, and so cautious should we be to abstain from all appearances of this evil. — Matthew Henry

I am conscious that meat eatingis not in accordance with the finer feelings,and I abstain from it whenever I can. — Albert Schweitzer

Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire. — Plato

You shall abstain, shall abstain. That is the eternal song. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I'm pro responsible choice. You know, there is choice to abstain, choice to do contraception. There are all kinds of good choices. — Sharron Angle

Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth; for the worst lies are often conveyed by a false look, smile, or act. — Abraham Cahan

It takes more to abstain than to err, more to avoid mistakes than to make mistakes; but the good thing is that it gets better with practice. — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain. — Epictetus

To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity - there is the challenge. — Abraham Joshua Heschel

When you are in doubt abstain. — Zoroaster