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
We abstained from having sex until we got married.
Ali Landry
When you doubt, abstain.
Ambrose Bierce
Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.
A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
It is crystal clear to me that if Arabs put down a draft resolution blaming Israel for the recent earthquake in Iran it would probably have a majority, the U.S. would veto it and Britain and France would abstain.
Amos Oz
In elections in Iceland, I have always been an abstainer. It seems like politics is such a small bundle of self-important people, who don't have much to do with things I'm interested in.
Bjork
In view of the meaning given to this honor in the community to which I belong, I should abstain from the undeserved prize that has been awarded to me. Do not meet my voluntary refusal with ill will.
Boris Pasternak
Part of treatment for drugs and alcohol is you abstain from these, but with eating disorders you can't abstain from food so the treatment is longer than drugs and alcohol.
Carre Otis
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.
Chris Borland
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
If the large power voluntarily abstains from using its full power or feels the strategic situation to be such that it cannot do so, it in effect loses the advantage of being a big power.
Elliot Richardson
All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
Epictetus
From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
Francois Rabelais
Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
George Bernard Shaw
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
George Eliot
When the students were killed at Kent State, the cast voted to do a demonstration from the stage, and I abstained.
Holly Near
All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities.
James Fenimore Cooper
I add, that those who are bent on restoring the whole church ought to be well instructed in the word, and to abstain from doing anything under the pretext of simplicity.
John Nelson Darby
This is not what anyone wants to hear, just like somebody who wants to lose weight doesn't want to hear 'diet and exercise,' but I think giving yourself time and abstaining from interaction is the only way to get over somebody.
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.
I want to make an extremely strong appeal to those who abstained. Vote. It takes five minutes and then it's for five years.
It is the duty of every thoughtful Indian not to marry. In case he is helpless in regard to marriage, he should abstain from sexual intercourse with his wife.
It would be doing me great injustice to think that I have any feeling of indifference to my country; I have more reason than anyone to feel, every day of my life, the value of the blood which flows in my veins, and it is only from prudence that at times I abstain from showing how proud I am of it.
I'm the worst ad anyone could possibly be for abstaining from anything.
Everything's so repressive now - it's the No generation. You can't do anything, you can't eat anything, you have to abstain.
I myself eschew all stimulants. I also practically abstain from meat.
Both China and Russia felt duped by the U.N. 'no-fly' zone resolution regarding Libya in 2011 that eventually led to the ouster of Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi. China and Russia had abstained from the Libyan resolution, and neither country plans to make what they regard as a similar mistake again.
A woman who abstains from motherhood saying 'I am working' means she is in fact rejecting motherhood.
I used to think that people just hate vegans; I have since discovered that everybody hates anyone who abstains from anything.
To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
I'm pro responsible choice. You know, there is choice to abstain, choice to do contraception. There are all kinds of good choices.
I'm pro-responsible choice. There is choice to abstain, choice to do contraception. There are all kind of good choices.
And in England there has always been something deeply pro-Arab, of course, not among all Englishmen, and anti-Israeli, in the establishment. They abstained in the 1947 UN partition resolution... They maintained an arms embargo against us in the 1950s... They always worked against us. They think the Arabs are the underdogs.
I abstain from trying Punjabi cuisine because it is extra oily.
My definition of sobriety is to be in full control and not feel drunk, but it's not abstaining for religious reasons or any other reason.
As American freemen, we cannot but sympathize in all efforts to extend the blessings of civil and political liberty, but at the same time, we are warned by the admonitions of history and the voice of our own beloved Washington to abstain from entangling alliances with foreign nations.
