Refuse Quotes
1583 Refuse quotes by unique 1148 authors
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Although I claim to be a Christian, I live at a moment in time when the Christian faith is being defined by fundamentalists who have…
— Mel White
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Women have endeavored to guide men to love because patriarchal thinking has sanctioned this work even as it has undermined it by teaching men to…
— Bell Hooks
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If war can indeed be turned into a relic, then the virtue of greed will recede further. From a given society's standpoint, one big upside…
— Robert Wright
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What is hateful is not rebellion but the despotism which induces the rebellion; what is hateful are not rebels but the men, who, having the…
— Wilfrid Laurier
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Mathematics is of two kinds, Rigorous and Physical. The former is Narrow: the latter Bold and Broad. To have to stop to formulate rigorous demonstrations…
— Oliver Heaviside
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One should never refuse an invitation to lunch or dinner, for one never knows what one may have to eat the next day.
— Edouard de Pomiane
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If you grant asylum to so many refugees, your house may be sacked sooner by the soldiers; I see that clearly. The question is, however,…
— Vincent de Paul
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The only way to seek God is to seek God first. Deny the nayward, affirm the yeaward, be true to those stirrings and motions which…
— Jean Toomer
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Madonna Kolbenschlag suggest that if an awakened woman forgoes innocence and denial, if she refuses to make compromises with herself and defect to patriarchy, then…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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... if one were to refuse to have direct, geometric, intuitive insights, if one were reduced to pure logic, which does not permit a choice…
— Henri Lebesgue
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The English language is like a broad river on whose bank a few patient anglers are sitting, while, higher up, the stream is being polluted…
— Cyril Connolly
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Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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Without a quest, life is quickly reduced to bleak black and wimpy white, a diet too bland to get anybody out of bed in the…
— Charles R. Swindoll
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We note the increasing coarseness of language and understand how Lot must have felt when he was, according to Peter, "vexed with the filthy conversation…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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Anybody can quit. Only a real champion and a person of character and strength can keep going and refuse to give up.
— Sadie Robertson
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If a sound body and a sound mind, which is as much as to say health and virtue, are to be preferred before all other…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Don't let your eyes refuse to seeDon't let your ears refuse to hear
— Ray LaMontagne
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Yet, like the sea and the gallows, London refuses nobody.
— Peter Ackroyd
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No doubt a man may be saved, like the penitent thief, without having received the Lord's Supper. It is not a matter of absolute and…
— J C Ryle
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The world, unfortunately, rarely matches our hopes and consistently refuses to behave in a reasonable manner.
— Stephen Jay Gould
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