Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin Jaeger

We regard the recent announcement by Iran of its intention to resume research and development activities with concern. We would encourage Iran to abstain from unilateral steps.

Atharva Veda

Sin leads to sure and certain downfall and hence we should abstain from sinful deeds.

Boris Pasternak

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.

Atharva Veda

One should not only abstain from 'sinful-deeds' but also from 'sinful- speech' and 'sinful-thought'. By doing so we pave our way to success and peace.

Rudyard Kipling

Pleasant the snaffle of Courtship, improving the manners and carriage, But the colt who is wise will abstain from the terrible thorn-bit of marriage

Atharva Veda

We should abstain from violence, debauchery, evil deeds, sensual-attachment, hatred, anger and ego.

Atharva Veda

We should abstain from miserliness,cruelty,gambling and misconduct while doing business.

Yajur Veda

The leader should abstain from evil tendencies because they would be showing bad precedence to their followers-which is more harmful.

Michael Bohn

So there were benefits both for those who were able to abstain altogether and even among those who did not abstain, they were much less likely to drink heavily.

Charles Caleb Colton

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Charles Caleb Colton

Anger is practical awkwardness.

Alanis Morissette

We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.

Alan Bleasdale

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

Alan Alda

I'm an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger. What works for me is working out when it's useful to use that anger.

C. Wright Mills

Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.

Buddy Hackett

Why should I be angry at someone when they are out dancing?

Carl Hiaasen

My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.

Elliot Mintz

The possibility that many people would be reading her journal is really disquieting. She's feeling a combination of anger, certainly confusion, and just tremendous sadness.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is seldom that statesmen have the option of choosing between a good and an evil.

Charles Caleb Colton

Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods.

Charles Caleb Colton

Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.

Charles Caleb Colton

No propagation or multiplication is more rapid that that of evil, unless it be checked; no growth more certain.

Charles Caleb Colton

Accustom yourself to submit on all and every occasion, and on the most minute, no less than on the most important circumstances of life, to a small present evil, to obtain a greater distant good. This will give decision, tone, and energy to the mind, which, thus disciplined, will often reap victory from defeat and honor from repulse.

Charles Dickens

Good never come of such evil, a happier end was not in nature to so unhappy a beginning.

Charles Dickens

It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred, for patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition of virtue into vice, or the reverse.

Charles Simmons

It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'.

Charles Stanley

We're living in a fearful time. Since 9/11 people have become more afraid than before, because of terrorism. There's a lot of confusion about evil, where it's all coming from.