If a man stopped me in the street and demanded of me my watch, I should refuse to give it to him.… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
The Secret Doctrine is the common property of the countless millions of men born under various climates, in times with which History… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I refuse to accept the idea that money is evil. People make things evil and negative. Some people love what money can… — Aeriel Miranda Copy Share Image
Facing the darkness, admitting the pain, allowing the pain to be pain, is never easy. This is why courage - big-heartedness -… — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
Where is the soul? . . . I refuse to believe anything of that kind without proof. The idea that, as soon… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The True conservative seeks to protect the system of private property and free enterprise by correcting such injustices and inequalities as arise… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Commitment is the ultimate assertion of human freedom. It releases all the energy you possess and enables you to take quantum leaps… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Insomniacs tend to fall into two general categories - those who give up and those who don't. I don't. I refuse to… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
To forgive the incessant provocations of daily life - to keep on forgiving the bossy mother-in-law, the bullying husband, the nagging wife,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The deeper our faith, the more doubt we must endure; the deeper our hope, the more prone we are to despair; the… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
The hate of favourites is only a love of favour. The envy of NOT possessing it, consoles and softens its regrets by… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
On accepting adversity in our lives: Always it is initiated by an act of will on our part; we set ourselves to… — Margaret Clarkson Copy Share Image
Here am I. I'm 38. My career's probably never been better. And I've made a decision which may or may not impact… — Shirley Manson Copy Share Image
Women are often belittled for trying to resurrect these men and bring them back to life and to love. They are in… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
If it were true that men could achieve their good by means of turning some men into sacrificial animals, and . .… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There are those superstars who refuse to give anything of themselves to the public except what they see on-screen. In movies and… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
Oh, great reviews are the worst. They mislead you more than the bad ones, because they only fuel your ego. Then you… — Chazz Palminteri Copy Share Image
Now as before, women must refuse to be meek and guileful, for truth cannot be served by dissimulation. Women who fancy that… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Our [black people's] path is clear: We refuse to be inferior. We want to be exactly what Allah (God) has desired for… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Moments ago, the U.S. Senate decided to do the unthinkable about gun violence - nothing at all. Over two years ago, when… — Gabrielle Giffords Copy Share Image
What a chimaera then is man, what a novelty, what a monster, what chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy!… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
It's a little bit like my inability to read a guide book before I go anywhere. I can read it after I've… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
It sometimes happens to me while writing, that I seek a word; mischievous as it is it appears in English, it appears… — Sami Michael Copy Share Image
Settling for what is comfortable is one of the biggest enemies to our enlargement... In every season of life...we need to be… — Christine Caine Copy Share Image
There is nothing--no circumstance, no trouble, no testing--that can ever touch me until, first of all, it has gone past God and… — Alan Redpath Copy Share Image
Imagine a ship that is sinking and needs all the available power to run the pumps to drain out the rising waters.… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
When we think of the height of God's infinity we should not despair of His compassion reaching us from such a height;… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
The practical man is the adventurer, the investigator, the believer in research, the asker of questions, the man who refuses to believe… — Henry Harrower Copy Share Image
Get scared. It will do you good. Smoke a bit, stare blankly at some ceilings, beat your head against some walls, refuse… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
You must not refuse any additional cups of tea under the following circumstances: if it is hot; if it is cold; if… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
Being true to yourself means living in truth with each person in your life. It means refusing to say or do something… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
Today, whether it is a student who holds a sit-in to get the army recruiters off his campus, or the mother of… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
There is no freedom that I would grant to any man that I would refuse to woman, and there is no freedom… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
In a language as idiomatically stressed as English, opportunities for misreadings are bound to arise. By a mere backward movement of stress,… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
The Universe wants to play. Those who refuse out of dry spiritual greed & choose pure contemplation forfeit their humanity - those… — Hakim Bey Copy Share Image
We now face the prospect of a kind of global civil war between those who refuse to consider the consequences of civilization's… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
I don't see myself as successful because I've worked on only a handful of films. The way I look at it, if… — Haley Bennett Copy Share Image
To assert, as some have, that illegal immigrants do not depress wages because they do the jobs Americans refuse is the kind… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image