Given after refusal is more pleasing than refusal after…

Now, what produces a want of demand A refusal to take from other countries the commodities which they produce.

— Joseph Hume

Rejection or refusal is a temporary phase of life. Always give yourself another chance. Never surrender and don't give your last try in anything…

— Ritu Ghatourey

There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

Suppose you feel you cannot accept some fact about yourself. Then own your refusal to accept. Own the block. Embrace it fully. And watch…

— Nathaniel Branden

A really intelligent man makes an indifferent painter. For painting requires a certain blindness, a partial refusal to be aware of all the options.

— Peter Greenaway

Human beings can be redeemed. Empires cannot. Our refusal to face the truth about empire, our refusal to defy the multitudinous crimes and atrocities…

— Chris Hedges

Ending poverty calls for humility, honesty, freedom from ideology and refusal to accept cruel simplicities about anyone's human potential. It requires listening to the…

— Donella Meadows

Every addiction arises from an unconscious refusal to face and move through your own pain. Every addiction starts with pain and ends with pain.…

— Eckhart Tolle

“To heal the pain of another is to heal my own pain. Yet, some of the greatest pain that I can experience is found…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

For me, one of the most disturbing elements of the right wing's political agenda is that it believes that there is one correct spiritual…

— Barbra Streisand

At the start of the second decade of the 21st century, young people all over the world are demonstrating against a variety of issues…

— Henry Giroux

The need of black conservatives to gain the respect of their white peers deeply shapes certain elements of their conservatism. In this regard, they…

— Cornel West

There is a vast difference - a constitutional difference-between restrictions imposed by the state which prohibit the intellectual commingling of students, and the refusal…

— Anonymous

To joke in the face of danger is the supreme politeness, a delicate refusal to cast oneself as a tragic hero.

— Edmond Rostand

I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their…

— George Bernard Shaw