“Just as the creative artist is not allowed to choose, neither is he permitted to turn his back on anything: a single… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo. — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
“If lawmakers in nations today refused to be bribed and be corrupted by some larger-than-life leaders, the people will be less insulted… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“People will rather appreciate a man who wears one suit out of the several he has got and refuse to validate the… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
'Green' is likely to be a big issue in the 2008 U.S. presidential election - largely in response to George Bush's suicidal… — Zac Goldsmith Copy Share Image
It is an admirable skill to able to sweeten a refusal with civil words which atone for the favor which we are… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
“I can't survive,' he once told me of his refusal to come indoors,'if I can't hear the orchestra the way I like… — Steve Lopez Copy Share Image
Ignorance is not a simple lack of knowledge but an active aversion to knowledge, the refusal to know, issuing from cowardice, pride,… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
My own feeling is that one should refuse to participate in any activity that implements American aggression - thus tax refusal, draft… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We stopped the fighting [in 1991] on an agreement that Iraq would take steps to assure the world that it would not… — Harry Reid Copy Share Image
Many people are priced out of the medical and insurance markets for one reason: the politicians refusal to give up power. Allowing… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
REFUSAL, n. Denial of something desired; Refusals are graded in a descending scale of finality thus: the refusal absolute, the refusal condition,… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
This of course is the way to talk to dragons, if you don't want to reveal your proper name which is wise,… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
The virtue of gay equality has become increasingly recognized in the U.S. because people have been persuaded of its merits, not because… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
My failure to lay aside the sin that so easily entangles is the direct result of my refusal to die to my… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
One of the problems in the United States is the refusal on the part of our young people to remember or to… — John Hope Franklin Copy Share Image
By 'coming to terms with life' I mean: the reality of death has become a definite part of my life; my life… — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
We do literature a real disservice if we reduce it to knowledge or to use, to a problem to be solved. If… — Marjorie Garber Copy Share Image
At the moment we have a critical situation in Greece. Even as we speak, where there is an open attempt by the… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
“I am not in the habit of explaining myself. I have made a concession to you in doing so. Choose now how… — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
Modern man lives isolated in his artificial environment, not because the artificial is evil as such, but because of his lack of… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
It is our destiny to live with the wrong as well as the right kind of citizens, and to learn from them,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The death agony of the barricade was about to begin.For, since the preceding evening, the two rows of houses in the Rue… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“(Response to King Erik XIV of Sweden's proposal of marriage:) "[W]hile we perceive ... the zeal and love of your mind towards… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
The roots of any evil deed can be traced to the perpetrator's refusal to experience pain. — Keith Ablow Copy Share Image
A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship to myself. — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He who awaits the call, but sees the need, Already sets his spirit to refuse it. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Refusal to engage with the Russian government is not a viable long-term foreign policy option for the U.K. — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image
Sin is the despairing refusal to find your deepest identity in your relationship and service to God. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Freedom without opportunity is a devil's gift, and the refusal to provide such opportunities is criminal — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Indeed, the first step toward becoming a true outlaw is the refusal to be victimized.” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
When all hope is lost, pig-headed refusal to acknowledge reality will always save the day. — Andy Ihnatko Copy Share Image
The leading characteristic of the savage state is its refusal or avoidance of industry. — Arthur Brisbane Copy Share Image
The nobility of our calling will always be rooted in two commitments difficult to observe: refusal to lie about what we know,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
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