If anyone asks you for something that you believe would be injurious to him, refuse, but in such a manner as not… — Ignatius of Loyola Copy Share Image
Precious things lost are transmutable. They refuse oblivion. They simply wait to be rendered into testimonies, into stories and songs. — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
Love is nourished only by sacrifices, and the more a soul refuses natural satisfactions, the stronger and more disinterested becomes her tenderness. — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
I believe serious progress (in the abolition of war) can be achieved only when men become organized on an international scale and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is one of the great ironies of corporate control that the corporate state needs the abilities of intellectuals to maintain power,… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
I refuse to put myself into a situation in which I have to face some kind of "I'm losing it" kind of… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
Barack Obama has domesticated the left in such a way that we feel as if we have no alternative but him...I refuse… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I attempt all day, at work, not to think about what lies ahead, but this costs me so much effort that there… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
Pessimism is not in being tired of evil but in being tired of good. Despair does not lie in being weary of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Atheism ... in its philosophic aspect refuses allegiance not merely to a definite concept of God, but it refuses all servitude to… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The world in which we live would benefit greatly if men and women everywhere would exercise the pure love of Christ, which… — Howard W. Hunter Copy Share Image
We are aware that the order of God requires the exercise of humility, but not of servility of slaves; but a humility… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I expected this reception. All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things!… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A self-made man, if he is made at all, has already won the battle of life. . . . he has learned… — Alvin R. Dyer Copy Share Image
Some people draw a comforting distinction between force and violence. I refuse to cloud the issue by such word-play. The power which… — Kenneth Kaunda Copy Share Image
God has put into the heart of man love and the boldness to sue, and into the heart of woman fear and… — Margaret of Valois Copy Share Image
I refuse to be friends with people that find themselves superior to others because of the opportunities that are given to them. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Society will be obeyed; if you refuse obedience, you must take the consequences. Society has only one law, and that is custom.… — Philip Gilbert Hamerton Copy Share Image
I refuse to totally grow up. I've always been someone who says and does things that push politically correct boundaries. — Robbie Williams Copy Share Image
“If I was a braver man, I'd leave things the way they are, but I can't. You asked me why I'm a… — Colleen Houck Copy Share Image
I don't operate on smokers. I tell cigarette smokers that I can operate on you, I get paid the same. And you… — Mehmet Oz Copy Share Image
I think politics is a higher build in life. You know? If you diffuse under normal, common sense of a story, you… — Bernardo Bertolucci Copy Share Image
Every now and then I will play; I try to focus on charitable work. I might do it because it's an offer… — Andre Agassi Copy Share Image
How does God's love abide in anyone who has the world's goods and sees a brother or sister in need and yet… — John the Apostle Copy Share Image
In the name of the constitution of Texas, which has been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath. I love Texas… — Sam Houston Copy Share Image
The referee said it was not acceptable, but the Press considered they could not refuse to publish a book by a professor… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
Better that we should err in action than wholly refuse to perform. The storm is so much better than the calm, as… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
Those who refuse the long drudgery of thought, and think with the heart rather than the head, are ever the most fiercely… — Peter Bayne Copy Share Image
Public business must always be done by somebody. It will be done by somebody or other. If wise man decline, others will… — John Adams Copy Share Image
If God wills the evangelization of the world, and you refuse to support missions, then you are opposed to the will of… — Oswald J. Smith Copy Share Image
A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it. Positive thinking is a form of… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The existence of good bad literature—the fact that one can be amused or excited or even moved by a book that one's… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Well Washington DC what are you going to do. They think the capitol steps are the state of the art in comedy.… — Harry Shearer Copy Share Image
To refuse everything, to say, even when there is something which really should be done, "Ah, that's no longer feminist," is a… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Moved by a passion they do not understand for a goal they seldom reach, men and women are haunted by the vision… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Servant leadership always empathizes, always accepts the person, but sometimes refuses to accept some of the person's effort or performance as good… — Robert K. Greenleaf Copy Share Image
I suspect anyone self-satisfied enough to refuse lawful pleasures: we are not sufficiently rich in our separate resources to reject the graces… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Your story needs to move people’s spirits and build their goodwill, so that when you finally do ask them to buy from… — Gary Vaynerchuk Copy Share Image
Southern Baptist Convention's EC president Frank Page tells me: "If I'm told I have to marry same sex couples I will refuse." — Todd Starnes Copy Share Image
