Don't boast about your hardheartedness or refusal to shed tears. Instead, pray that God will give you a tender heart which will… — Lee Roberson Copy Share Image
In view of the meaning given to this honor in the community to which I belong, I should abstain from the undeserved… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd. — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
As long as this deliberate refusal to understand things from above, even where such understanding is possible, continues, it is idle to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Add it all up, and some prominent Obama supporters are now saying that it paints a picture of an opposition driven, in… — Dan Harris Copy Share Image
Perhaps that is what love is: the momentary or prolonged refusal to think of another person in terms of power — Phyllis Rose Copy Share Image
If we're trying to get the perfect house, the perfect relationship or the perfect job, it's likely there's some kind of fear… — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
Production of identity is a resistance element, an aggressive element. Both a refusal and an affirmation and an assertion, and certainly, we… — Mark McMorris Copy Share Image
Sensitive husbands don't like second billing. I don't believe Franchot ever for a moment resented the fact that I was a star.… — Joan Crawford Copy Share Image
One of the problems I have always discussed is the refusal to distinguish between comment and fact. The newspaper wraps every fact… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The myths and folk tales of the whole world make clear that the refusal is essentially a refusal to give up what… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The strike and its outcome had an enormous impact on the system of education and on our lives as well. The strike… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
We must all, and especially the elected officials, coalition and opposition alike, denounce and condemn the phenomenon of refusal. It is our… — Yoav Gallant Copy Share Image
In any conflict area, it is always the women who are the first point of attack. But I think the more they… — Fatima Bhutto Copy Share Image
Nationalism is fraught with dangers, of course, but so is the blind refusal to recognize that attachment to one's own culture, traditions,… — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
The very notion of tabu is one of the rightest notions in the world. Better any old tabu than none, for a… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
Hamlet and Victor Frankenstein are each obsessed with death. Hamlet's whole story is a philosophical preparation for death; Victor's is an intellectual… — Kenneth Branagh Copy Share Image
“Kids took a fathomless amount of time and energy...And they took it first. They had right of first refusal on everything you… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
“Refusal versus actions. A continous battle between personal actions and wills. Strattling between dimensions trying to find the path to experience life.” — Elg Copy Share Image
To be boosted by an illusion is not to live better than to live in harmony with the truth ... these refusals… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Some of the reasons John McCain lost in 2008 were his lackluster campaign, his refusal to showcase Obama's extreme liberalism and, thus,… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Rebellion, in man, is the refusal to be treated as an object and to be reduced to simple historical terms. It is… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
However often you may have done them a favour, if you once refuse they forget everything except your refusal. — Pliny the Younger Copy Share Image
The refusal of the British and Russian peoples to accept what appeared to be inevitable defeat was the great factor in the… — George C. Marshall Copy Share Image
The engineer's power was usually limited to a refusal to endorse a given plan, or to the tender of his resignation. — Samuel Florman Copy Share Image
The slavery of identity comes from our refusal to face ourselves. So we must begin the exploration to self-awareness. Where do we… — Ruben Papian Copy Share Image
A vampire is branding girls, okay?" I ignored his refusal. "Something about that just feels wrong to me." "I would hope so. — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
While the Jeffersonian did not flatly deny the Creator's power to perform miracles, he admired His refusal to do so. — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
I see 'Grace' as an affectionate refusal of things that just aren't true. With all our power and money and influence, we… — Lizz Wright Copy Share Image
There is something underwhelming about scholarly hate mail - the sad literary allusions, the refusal to use contractions. — Brock Clarke Copy Share Image
Man's basic vice, the source of all his evils, is the act of unfocusing his mind, the suspension of his consciousness, which… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Do not be ashamed of being poor, or of asking alms. Receive what is given you with humility, and accept a refusal… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
The Scientific Revolution, that remarkable transformation of European thought that occurred between approximately 1550 and 1700, brought with it an ascendancy of… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
I don't have the Big Idea. I don't have the arrogance to even want to have the Big Idea. But I believe… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
There were over 40,000 pages of FBI documents of which only about half are currently available to scholars and researchers. I think… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
Hearing politicians tell us we can't afford a tax cut is like listening to a glutton tell you he can't afford a… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Right here in our bodies, in our defense of our right to experience joy, in the refusal to abandon the place where… — Aurora Levins Morales Copy Share Image
It is Jesus who stirs in you the desire to do something great with your lives, the will to follow an ideal,… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
If brains have brought us to what we are in now, I think it is time to allow our hearts to speak.… — Rosika Schwimmer Copy Share Image
Sochi started with the same problem as every Winter Olympics. Forget the crass commercialism, the fake amateurism, NBC's refusal to televise important… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image