Refusal Quotes

245 quotes by 220 authors

I do assure you that I am not one of those young ladies (if such young ladies there are) who are so daring as to… — Elizabeth Bennett
Some of the reasons John McCain lost in 2008 were his lackluster campaign, his refusal to showcase Obama's extreme liberalism and, thus, his failure to… — David Limbaugh
He who never says "no" is no true man. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise. — Eric Hoffer
Living with golden fantasies of an endlessly nurtured infancy can be a neurotic refusal to grow up. — Judith Viorst
He who awaits the call, but sees the need, Already sets his spirit to refuse it. — Dante Alighieri
Sin is the despairing refusal to find your deepest identity in your relationship and service to God. — Timothy Keller
Who timidly requests invites refusal. — Seneca the Younger
Is it strange, then, that in a literature so concerned with realism and with personal liberation this refusal and impoverishment of the life of the… — Alfred Kazin
No is no negative in a woman's mouth. — Philip Sidney
There is a vast difference - a constitutional difference-between restrictions imposed by the state which prohibit the intellectual commingling of students, and the refusal of… — Fred M. Vinson
The nobility of our calling will always be rooted in two commitments difficult to observe: refusal to lie about what we know, and resistance to… — Albert Camus
The engineer's power was usually limited to a refusal to endorse a given plan, or to the tender of his resignation. — Samuel Florman
What has changed is that when I photographed, most people that I photographed didn't have the right of refusal on their work. It would take… — Eve Arnold
The unification of opposites which characterizes the commercial and political style is one of the many ways in which discourse and communication make themselves immune… — Herbert Marcuse
In this age, the mere example of nonconformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. — John Stuart Mill
I'm English enough to feel something of a gut-reaction to modernism, to continental philosophising and anything that smacks of a refusal to pay attention to… — Will Self
Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope. — Carrie Snow
REFUSAL, n. Denial of something desired; Refusals are graded in a descending scale of finality thus: the refusal absolute, the refusal condition, the refusal tentative… — Ambrose Bierce
He who begs timidly courts a refusal. — Seneca the Younger

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