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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
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
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
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
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
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
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 abstainfrom 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
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 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
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
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