Zitat des Tages über Verzichten / Abstain:
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.
I'm pro responsible choice. You know, there is choice to abstain, choice to do contraception. There are all kinds of good choices.
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.
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.
To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
Everything's so repressive now - it's the No generation. You can't do anything, you can't eat anything, you have to abstain.
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.
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.
From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
When you doubt, abstain.
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
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.
I myself eschew all stimulants. I also practically abstain from meat.
All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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.
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.
