Refusal Quotes

245 quotes by 220 authors

Your believing or not believing in karma has no effect on its existence, nor on its consequences to you. Just as a refusal to believe… — F. Paul Wilson
We stopped the fighting [in 1991] on an agreement that Iraq would take steps to assure the world that it would not engage in further… — Harry Reid
The only condition of fighting for the right to create is faith in your own vocation, readiness to serve, and refusal to compromise. — Andrei Tarkovsky
Broadly speaking, I learned to recognize sin as the refusal to live up to the enlightenment we possess: to know the right order of values… — Margaret Bondfield
Part of the trick of being happy is a refusal to allow oneself to become too nostalgic for the heady triumphs of one's youth. — Larry McMurtry
It`s all part of the pattern. This is a story of scandal and corruption, investigations, refusals to take responsibility. If this government continues in office,… — Stephen Harper
Intellectual sodomy, which comes from the refusal to be simple about plain matters, is as gross and abundant today as sexual perversion and they are… — Edward Dahlberg
The prompter the refusal, the less the disappointment. — Publilius Syrus
The work of art is born of the intelligence's refusal to reason the concrete. It marks the triumph of the carnal. — Albert Camus
It is Jesus who stirs in you the desire to do something great with your lives, the will to follow an ideal, the refusal to… — Pope John Paul II
If brains have brought us to what we are in now, I think it is time to allow our hearts to speak. When our sons… — Rosika Schwimmer
As long as this deliberate refusal to understand things from above, even where such understanding is possible, continues, it is idle to talk of any… — C.S. Lewis
Dear Mr. President: ... We urge you, after consulting with Congress, and consistent with the U.S. Constitution and laws, to take necessary actions (including, if… — Joe Lieberman
Your money does not cause my poverty. Refusal to believe this is at the bottom of most bad economic thinking. — P.J. O'Rourke
Our way out involves both resistance and renewal: saying no to what is, so that we can reshape and recreate the world. Our challenge is… — Starhawk
With the socialization of the health care system through institutions such as Medicaid and Medicare and the regulation of the insurance industry (by restricting an… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Perfectionism has nothing to do with getting it right. Â It has nothing to do with fixing things. Â It has nothing to do with… — Julia Cameron
The mark of the modern world is the imagination of its profiteers and the counter-assertiveness of the oppressed. Exploitation and the refusal to accept exploitation… — Immanuel Wallerstein
Silence is an argument in favor of the status quo. A refusal to address an inequity is a strategy for maintaining that inequity. — PZ Myers
What else is death but the refusal any longer to grow and suffer change? — David Malouf

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