You will do very well to refuse offices; for a man seldom fails to give offense in them. It ought to weary… — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
Things have their laws as well as men, and things refuse to be trifled with. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Save the Children is often told that its aims are impossible - that there has always been child suffering and there always… — Eglantyne Jebb Copy Share Image
In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The Administration has made critical mistakes and errors in judgment leading up to the war in Iraq. The President refuses to acknowledge… — Zoe Lofgren Copy Share Image
I'm so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The sick man must follow his illness to the place where it is treated. He is set aside in one of the… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
Our dreams disturb us because they refuse to pander to our fondest notions of ourselves. The closer one looks, the more they… — Marc Ian Barasch Copy Share Image
Virtue runs before the muse, and defies her skill; she is rapt and doth refuse to wait a painter's will. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Now I am a writer who can command fairly good payments from magazines with large circulations, I very often refuse to write… — George Woodcock Copy Share Image
I refuse to work evenings or weekends. If a script sees my character meeting for dinner, I put a line through the… — Armando Iannucci Copy Share Image
Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy… — Johannes Brahms Copy Share Image
Love is understanding, redemptive goodwill for all men, so that you love everybody, because God loves them. You refuse to do anything… — Martin Luther King, Jr 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
There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed. — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
Responsibility to yourself means that you don't fall for shallow and easy solutions-it means that you refuse to sell your talents and… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that I should keep it close and not communicate it, I would refuse the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I refuse to accept the idea that the “isness” of man's present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
After all that corrupt poets, and more corrupt philosophers, have told us of the blandishments of pleasure, and of its tendency to… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Some people are quick to challenge others but refuse to look in the mirror and challenge themselves. — Behdad Sami Copy Share Image
A society that refuses to strive for superfluities is likely to end up lacking in necessities. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
