Refusal Quotes · Page 2

No is no negative in a woman's mouth.

— Philip Sidney

Only the refusal to listen guarantees one against being ensnared by the truth.

— Robert Nozick

A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.

— Margaret Halsey

Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.

— Rumi

“A prompt refusal is sometimes no slight refusal.”

— Publius Syrus

“Ignorance is my refusal to think outside the box of my fears.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

A weapon men use against women is the refusal to take them seriously.

— David Mitchell

“Refusal to listen isn’t enough of a response.”

— Mhairi McFarlane

Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.

— Diana Vreeland

“No behaviour on our part is more self-centered than the demand to speak and the refusal to listen.”

— Robert E. Fisher

The real reason we haven't had peace is because of a persistent refusal of the Palestinians to recognize a Jewish state in…

— Benjamin Netanyahu

A resolute and wise refusal to take part in festivities will be an incentive for introspection and self-purification.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Part of the trick of being happy is a refusal to allow oneself to become too nostalgic for the heady triumphs of…

— Larry McMurtry

“I am yet to meet the idiot at whose door success arrived as a direct result of his refusal to invest in…

— Jonathan Wutawunashe

“Faith means I chose not to know, which is different than ignorance which refuses to know.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

A man's rights are not violated by a private individual's refusal to deal with him.

— Ayn Rand

“Honor, obey?" Gisbourne shouted, grappling with John. "This is what you call being a good wife?" I stopped. "I never said I'd…

— A.C. Gaughen

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

— Nathaniel Branden

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

— George Bernard Shaw

“Really, Mr. Collins,' cried Elizabeth with some warmth, 'you puzzle me exceedingly. If what I have hitherto said can appear to you…

— Jane Austen

Not only is suicide a sin, it is the sin. It is the ultimate and absolute evil, the refusal to take an…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

— Ritu Ghatourey

Any refusal to recognize reality, for any reason whatever, has disastrous consequences. There are no evil thoughts except one: the refusal to…

— Ayn Rand

The idea that the Internet favors the oppressed rather than the oppressor is marred by what I call cyber-utopianism: a naive belief…

— Evgeny Morozov

If racism is not the whole of the Tea Party, it is in its heart, along with blind hatred, a total disinterest…

— Keith Olbermann

You can build walls all the way to the sky and I will find a way to fly above them. You can…

— Lauren Oliver

We have avoided in recent years talking openly and honestly about race out of fear that it will alienate and polarize. In…

— Michelle Alexander

“Between now and when we graduate next year there are at least ten weeks' holiday and five random public holidays. There's email…

— Melina Marchetta

The Mayans were right, as it turns out, when they predicted the world would end in 2012. It was just a select…

— Maureen Dowd

“And now, for something completely the same: Wasted time and wasted breath, 's what I'll make, until my death. Helping people 'd…

— Will Advise

What about our refusal to look squarely at the degradation of the planet we inhabit? In the last election cycle many candidates…

— David Remnick

The mark of the modern world is the imagination of its profiteers and the counter-assertiveness of the oppressed. Exploitation and the refusal…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

“He was not counting on your refusal to panic.”

— Isham Cook

“Proclaim now that you refuse to die without fully living!”

— Bryant McGill

There is only one meditation - the rigorous refusal to harbor thoughts.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy.

— Paul Rudnick

The ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face.

— Rollo May

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

— Chinua Achebe

Faith is a refusal to panic, come what may.

— Martyn Lloyd-Jones