Suffering is basically the mind's refusal to accept reality as it is. — Marcus Thomas Copy Share Image
“Poverty is possible in every society because someone refused to speak out.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
What else is death but the refusal any longer to grow and suffer change? — David Malouf Copy Share Image
“A sincere decision to make is to refuse to give up until the society experiences the defeat of every form of injustice… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“To heal the pain of another is to heal my own pain. Yet, some of the greatest pain that I can experience… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
In the end, the tortures tearing the Lisbon girls pointed to a simple reasoned refusal to accept the world as it was… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
A refusal of nature as a model is a tradition that goes right back to Oscar Wilde. — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
A really intelligent man makes an indifferent painter. For painting requires a certain blindness, a partial refusal to be aware of all… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My characters aren't losers. They're rebels. They win by their refusal to play by everyone else's rules. — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
We shall come one day to a heaven where we shall gratefully know that God's great refusals were sometimes the true answers… — Peter Forsyth Copy Share Image
The will, the will not ever to die, the refusal to resign oneself to death, ceaselessly builds the house of life while… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
There are absolute atheists ... Absolute atheism is in no way a mere absence of belief in God. It is rather a… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
Thousands of people may have been killed by hurricane Katrina and many more could die in its aftermath because of the President's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In its relation to the reality of daily life, the high culture of the past was many things opposition and adornment, outcry… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
It's all part of the pattern. This is a story of scandal and corruption, investigations, refusals to take responsibility. If this government… — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
Your believing or not believing in karma has no effect on its existence, nor on its consequences to you. Just as a… — F. Paul Wilson Copy Share Image
Ending poverty calls for humility, honesty, freedom from ideology and refusal to accept cruel simplicities about anyone's human potential. It requires listening… — Donella Meadows Copy Share Image
The strike, the boycott, the refusal to serve, the ability to paralyze the functioning of a complex social structure-these remain potent weapons… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
That is my job as an intellectual, as an extension of my vocation: to engage in a serious reckoning with the present… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
So many things which once had distressed or revolted him — the speeches and pronouncements of the learned, their assertions and their… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
“It turns out that indecision is a path itself; but figuratively, a vertical path - up or down - meaning it isn't… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
For me, one of the most disturbing elements of the right wing's political agenda is that it believes that there is one… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
I think that a young state, like a young virgin, should modestly stay at home, and wait the application of suitors for… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I feel we are so blessed to live in a country where we enjoy so many rights that other countries cannot even… — Sheryl Crow Copy Share Image
One cannot always bestow all manner of things upon everybody. To refuse a request for just cause is as praiseworthy as to… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
Come awake, Tom. Fathers can willfully hurt their children. They can be addicts too weak to give up their vices, no matter… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Also, perhaps children are sterner than grown-up people in their refusal to suffer, in their refusal, even, to feel at all. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
An important book for our times, in which one woman's determination and refusal to consent sets an example of courage and honesty. — Giles Foden Copy Share Image
What keeps me level is the refusal to let the best of human aspirations die in the face of the challenges. I… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
The easiest rationalization for the refusal to seek the truth is the denial that truth exists. — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
“I had seen my refusal as not wanting to impose; they saw my change as giving them an opportunity to help.” — Don Piper with Cecil Murphey Copy Share Image
The experimental poetry thing is not my thing. It's a programme of the avant-garde: basically a refusal of the kind of poetry… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
The principle was, death should not be entered like some snug harbor. It should be an unambiguous refusal to surrender. — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
