Refusal Quotes

245 quotes by 216 authors

America is the only developed nation that has a 2,000-mile border with a developing nation, and the government's refusal to control that border is why… — George Will
Evil is the refusal to see one's self in others. — Richard Powers
Re-vision â€“ the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction â€“ is for… — Adrienne Rich
All logical arguments can be defeated by the simple refusal to reason logically — Steven Weinberg
I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals… — George Bernard Shaw
The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pendants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual,… — Ursula K. Le Guin
The same chemicals were used in the cooking as were used on the composition of her own being: only those which caused the most violent… — Anais Nin
The absurd hero's refusal to hope becomes his singular ability to live in the present with passion. — Albert Camus
The need of black conservatives to gain the respect of their white peers deeply shapes certain elements of their conservatism. In this regard, they simply… — Cornel West
In the end, the tortures tearing the Lisbon girls pointed to a simple reasoned refusal to accept the world as it was handed down to… — Jeffrey Eugenides
The roots of any evil deed can be traced to the perpetrator's refusal to experience pain. — Keith Ablow
The refusal to feel takes a heavy toll. Not only is there an impoverishment of our emotional and sensory life, flowers are dimmer and less… — Joanna Macy
You have made me ashamed of the wasted years. You have made me acknowledge that no darkness has ever been deep enough to extinguish my… — Anne Rice
Sometimes heroism is nothing more than patience, curiosity, and a refusal to panic. — Leif Enger
It's not the cheating. It's the hunger for an alternative. The refusal to accept unhappiness. — Tom Perrotta
Prejudice and bigotry are brought down...by the sheer force of determination of individuals to succeed and the refusal of a human being to let prejudice… — Condoleezza Rice
There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth. — Dorothy Thompson
They had killed themselves over our dying forests, over manatees maimed by propellers as they surfaced to drink from garden hoses; they had killed themselves… — Jeffrey Eugenides
There are no evil thoughts except one; the refusal to think. — Ayn Rand
Do what he will, he [the profane man] is an inheritor. He cannot utterly abolish his past, since he himself is a product of his… — Mircea Eliade

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