Top 40 Refrain Quotes

I can, of course, think what I want, just like everyone else. I simply have to refrain from saying everything I think.

I think I’m going to refrain from criticizing Apple too much. I mean, that’s been a pretty great company.

If policymakers are serious about avoiding a society of TV ‘haves and have-nots,’ they should refrain from policies that favor pay-TV operators over the providers of our nation’s only free and local communications system: over-the-air broadcasting.

When a hot woman walks by, and we ask if she’s your type, refrain from saying things like, ‘Nah, I like a woman with a little meat on her bones’ as you give us a squeeze.

Eric Clapton’s scales – when he comes off a high note and it’s time for a refrain or a little bit of a rest, he peals off scales going downwards that are so good it’s unbelievable.

That does not mean that we must forego just and fair criticism, or refrain from opposition to policies which are debatable or which do not command our approval.

I’m not going to just refrain from giving information I hear just because it might upset some people.

Even with the right political climate, would the wrong people refrain from doing the wrong thing?

Never forget, the real secret of giving advice is this: Once you’ve given it, don’t concern yourself with whether it is followed or not, and refrain from saying ‘I told you so.’

I refrain from blaming anything on my parents.

My family celebrates both the navratras that come twice in a year. We also refrain from eating meat. I just enjoy that people come home, savour the variety of snacks and participate in our puja during this time.

There are a billion songs that I’ve heard and said, ‘I don’t even care to have an opinion about it,’ but if I have to hear a snippet of the refrain of ‘We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together’ once, it’ll get stuck in my head, and that drives me crazy.

We treat them in the same way. Those who kill our women and innocent, we kill their women and innocent, until they refrain.

The public is increasingly disgusted with a steady diet of defamation, and prepared to reward those who refrain from it.

I consider anybody who weighs over 200 pounds fat, and time was when I could not refrain from telling such people so.

‘Liberty Brass’ is a small machine that unfolds in a single unpunctuated wave, which is interrupted by the rotating sign, the refrain. Each part is meant to do its work in relentless progression.

It’s not good if owners of sports teams are talking to sports journalists, bypassing the manager. That goes in the wrong direction wherever it happens. Therefore, I’ll refrain from doing this at all.

If you want people to take action,you must refrain from giving them the answers.

While no Muslim worthy of his name would lose his respect for God, the Prophet Muhammad, and other symbols of Islam, he might well refrain from using legal prosecution or violent reaction to those who do not show the same respect. My basis for this claim is nothing other than the holiest source of Islam, the Quran.

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

I refrain from lots of things I love, like cheese and carbs. I eat plenty of greens every day, my favorite being watercress.

We live in a globalising world. That means that all of us, consciously or not, depend on each other. Whatever we do or refrain from doing affects the lives of people who live in places we’ll never visit.

We must not demonstrate any arrogance, and we must refrain from any irrational or undemocratic behavior.

Sadly, because of the enormous gap between rich and poor, some mothers can afford helpers, but many can’t. Those who can would be kinder to refrain from criticizing other women.

I try to refrain from the alarmist statement, really I do. It’s bad for the liver and worries the dog, who has plenty enough to worry about as it is.

I say, ‘Is it really worth the calories?’ If it is, I eat it. If not, I refrain.

So far, I’ve never missed a deadline for a term paper, a review, a manuscript. I perform the mumbo-jumbo of voting with belief in my heart, I’ve not yet won even a jaywalking ticket, and unlike my father, whom I fault in this respect, I refrain from opting out of jury duty; instead, they mostly kick me out.

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.

To refrain from all injustice renders us also humane.

The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner.

In Bonn, where I studied for a year, I changed from classical to Romance philology, taught there by its great founder, F. Diez, and at the beginning of 1852, I received the doctorate for a dissertation on the refrain in Provencal poetry.

Never stray from life’s purpose. Refrain from counting someone else’s blessings instead of your own.

I am a very shy person who is just close to himself. So I would refrain from talking about my personal life.

You needn’t love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough.

When federal agents and prosecutors quietly open a criminal investigation, we are not concealing anything; we are simply following the longstanding policy that we refrain from publicizing non-public information. In that context, silence is not concealment.

I have lived so long among people who do not understand me, been so long accustomed to refrain and disguise myself for fear of being laughed at, that I have grown as difficult to come at as a snail in a shell; and what is worse, I cannot come out of my shell when I wish it.

I’ve been fascinated over the years by the way refrains work. Think, say, of the refrains in Yeats’ ballads. Ideally, each time the refrain comes back in a poem, it is both the same and different. It works by counterpoint and reiteration. It accrues meaning.

After a long run of almost thirty years, you get to the point where you say, ‘These are my concerns.’ It’s not so much this is what I set out to claim – it is a kind of refrain.

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

Children and scientists share an outlook on life. ‘If I do this, what will happen?’ is both the motto of the child at play and the defining refrain of the physical scientist.