The non-violent resistor not only avoids external, physical violence, but he avoids internal violence of spirit. He not only refuses to shoot… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We practice conscious forgetting by refusing to summon up the fiery material, we refuse to recollect. To forget is an active, not… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
“If you persist over time, refusing to take offense, making your motive genuine, showing respect, and constantly searching for Mutual Purpose, then… — Kerry Patterson Copy Share Image
She [Mérian] shook her head sadly. 'What Bran wants is impossible.' 'Well,' I [Will] said, 'I wouldn't be too sure. I have… — Stephen R. Lawhead Copy Share Image
Integrity, number one. Even in business that's predicated on lies I refuse to become part of the lies that is all-consuming. — Don King Copy Share Image
Admittedly, there is a risk in any course we follow other than this, but every lesson in history tells us that the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
We continue to subsidize highways and aviation, but when it comes to our passenger rail system, we refuse to provide the money… — Corrine Brown Copy Share Image
A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency. — Anthony Trollope 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
All countries must be governed by the modern people; they must be governed by the progressive people; they must be governed by… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
If you're a so-called minority writer, the temptation is to write for the majority... I refuse to do that. — Nguyen Viet Thang Copy Share Image
The mantle of glamour has been taken from the women and given to the men. The women toil in their shadows, plain… — RuPaul Copy Share Image
If, by chance, someone among those men of extraordinary talent is found who has firmness of soul and who refuses to yield… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau 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
My daughter refuses to call me mother in public; my little grandson calls me Spongeslob Squarebottom, and nobody else ever calls me… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Oh confound that gray-and-scarlet suit!" Sophie said. "I refuse to believe that I was the one that got caught with it! — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
The fact that I don't get big offers, it means that I don't refuse them. And I say no occasionally to bands,… — Gordon Raphael Copy Share Image
My own feeling is that one should refuse to participate in any activity that implements American aggression - thus tax refusal, draft… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
You can't always be demanding solidarity from others and then refuse to show it yourself. — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
Why should we refuse the happiness this hour gives us, because some other hour might take it away? — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie Copy Share Image
People who soar, are those who refuse to sit back and wish things would change — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
After months of lies, the president has given millions of people around the world reason to doubt that he has sent Americans… — Dick Armey Copy Share Image
Disregarding all evidence to the contrary, the student of Truth will maintain that he lives in a PERFECT Universe and among people… — Ernest Holmes Copy Share Image