The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of…

People without hope not only don’t write novels, but what is more to the point, they don’t read them. They don’t take long looks…

— Flannery O'Connor

“You will be very unhappy, but you must not give way to despair.”

— Hector Malot

There are different kinds of fire; there is false fire. No one knows this better than we do, but we are not such fools…

— William Booth

Can you understand why the Congress, most states and most cities refuse to pass legislation requiring the registration and licensing of any and all…

— Malcolm Forbes

Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many…

— James Joyce

Engaging the city around us and ministering to its needs reveal to us the remaining bastions of sin in our lives, the areas we…

— Matt Chandler

But people only die in proper duels, you know, with real wizards. The most you and Malfoy’ll be able to do is send sparks…

— Anonymous

It is a well-settled principle of the international code that where one nation owes another a liquidated debt which it refuses or neglects to…

— Andrew Jackson

I've been on the wrong end of violence, and I've done violence myself... I refuse to glorify violence in my movie and television roles.

— James Garner

I refuse to be one of those artists who, 10 years from now, they're bitter about the rise and the fall of their career.…

— Luke Bryan

I would never refuse to work with anybody.

— Coleen Nolan

When we look at the love of Christ, we make a wonderful discovery. Love is more a decision than an emotion! Christ-like love applauds…

— Max Lucado

“Refuse to put others either above you or below you, but instead see them as you.”

— Pauline Holyoak

A favor is half granted, when graciously refused.

— Jonathan Swift

[Art] can speak its own language only as long as the images are alive which refuse and refute the established order.

— Herbert Marcuse