The family indeed is dead, if what we mean by it is the modern family system in which units comprised of male… — Judith Stacey Copy Share Image
The people become more observant of justice, and do not refuse to submit to the laws when they see them obeyed by… — Claudius Claudianus Copy Share Image
Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to, it will inevitably continue… — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
Yet I exist in the hope that these memoirs... may find their way to the minds of humanity in Some Dimension, and… — Edwin A. Abbott Copy Share Image
The only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their getting better… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
We must recognize the eloquence of our passions and refuse to be taken in. Instead of saying, 'That false friend always did… — Emile Chartier Copy Share Image
My soul refuses to be satisfied so long as it is a helpless witness of a single wrong or a single misery. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Someone who lies and someone who tells the truth are playing on opposite sides, so to speak, in the same game. Each… — Harry Frankfurt Copy Share Image
We are a constitutional monarchy. I don't order laws, I propose them. Article 35 of our constitution states that the king can… — Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa Copy Share Image
Nobody can refuse a person who comes and asks for a job. Nobody can refuse a poor man when he goes and… — Rahul Gandhi Copy Share Image
The more we refuse to buy into our inner critics - and our external ones too - the easier it will get… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
Without a quest, life is quickly reduced to bleak black and wimpy white, a diet too bland to get anybody out of… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
His divine spark lives within me, a presence that will never leave. And I am but one of many tools He has… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The problems of the real world are primarily those you are left with when you refuse to apply their effective solutions. — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
In Calcutta alone, we have given more than 1,000 children in adoption. I cannot calculate how many babies we get a year.… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
No aphorism is more frequently repeated in connection with field trials, than that we must ask Nature few questions, or, ideally, one… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
Despair has been called the unforgivable sin-not presumably because God refuses to forgive it, but because it despairs of the possibility of… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Long-married couples balance their checkbooks as a substitute for love-making, or they refuse each other love by protesting one another's financial error… — Diana Trilling Copy Share Image
Coleridge declares that a man cannot have a good conscience who refuses apple dumplings, and I confess that I am of the… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I absolutely refuse to accept the fact that any country in the world goes into a kind of film-making crisis. What happens… — David Puttnam Copy Share Image