Refuse Quotes
1583 quotes by 1181 authors
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Until we as a gender refuse to wear any shoe that would be uncomfortable to walk a mile in, we’re perfectly screwed.
— Cheryl Strayed
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Strengthen your mind and refuse to carry the burden of mental and moral weakness acquired in past years; burn them in the fires of your…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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Praise consists in the love of God, in wonder at the goodness of God, in recognition of the gifts of God, in seeing God in…
— Henry Edward Manning
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Caution has its place, no doubt, but we cannot refuse our support to a serious venture which challenges the whole of the personality. If we…
— Carl Jung
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Oh, my dear Kepler, how I wish that we could have one hearty laugh together. Here, at Padua, is the principal professor of philosophy, whom…
— Galileo Galilei
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What has been the effect of coericion [sic]? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and errors…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.
— Jack Paar
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I myself am a Buddhist, not a Christian. But I cannot help but think that if Christ ran a public establishment, it would be open…
— George Takei
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The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.
— Bernard DeVoto
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Our minds, bodies, feelings, relationships are all informed by our questions. What you ask is who you are. What you find depends on what you…
— Sam Keen
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Readers should aspire to what is excellent. They should refuse to read a substitute Bible. They should want a Bible that calls them to their…
— Leland Ryken
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I know the world is bruised and bleeding, and though it is important not to ignore its pain, it is also critical to refuse to…
— Toni Morrison
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To refuse to accept the call of your best life is to insult the force that created you.
— Robin Sharma
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In a world where women are commodities, a woman who refuses to sell herself will have the thing she refuses to sell taken away from…
— Angela Carter
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I find the parallels between how some investors refuse to recognise the trends and our reaction to some of our environmental challenges very powerful. There…
— Jeremy Grantham
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We need to teach people to refuse to install non-free plug-ins; we need to teach people to care more about their long-term interest of freedom…
— Richard Stallman
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Refuse to believe and research is a way to the truth.
— Khem Veasna
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Prophets are those who take life as it is and expand it. They refuse to shrink a vision of tomorrow to the boundaries of yesterday.
— Joan D. Chittister
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It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her…
— Norman Douglas
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Between the banks of pain and pleasure the river of life flows. It is only when the mind refuses to flow with life, and gets…
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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