Pity does not get you aid. Admiration at your refusal to give in does. — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
Only the refusal to listen guarantees one against being ensnared by the truth. — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
The refusal of praise often proceeds from a desire to have it repeated. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
Tout refus du langage est une mort. Any refusal of language is a death. — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
A man's rights are not violated by a private individual's refusal to deal with him. — Ayn Rand 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
“Faith means I chose not to know, which is different than ignorance which refuses to know.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough 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
“I am yet to meet the idiot at whose door success arrived as a direct result of his refusal to invest in… — Jonathan Wutawunashe 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
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
The name of God should no longer come from the mouth of man. This word that has so long been degraded by… — Arthur Adamov 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
Government, like any other organism, refuses to acquiesce in its own extinction. This refusal, of course, involves the resistance to any effort… — H. L. Mencken 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
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
When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of 'No answer.' It is not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All truth goes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Then it is violently opposed. Finally, it is accepted as self-evident. Facts… — Helen Keller 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
I understand why so many Americans are fed up with government. The 112th Congress was almost universally derided as the worst ever.… — Olympia Snowe Copy Share Image
The Declaration of Independence...is not a legal prescription conferring powers upon the courts; and the Constitution's refusal to 'deny or disparage' other… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
The refusal to be creative is an act of self-will and is counter to our true nature. When we are open to… — Julia Cameron 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
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
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
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
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