Desist Quotes

It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.

This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.

Often, city fathers blamed prostitutes for the disease, and some threatened to brand their cheeks with hot iron if they did not desist from their vices.

You can just never desist. You have to always push back, whatever the pressures put on you.

Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin.