Refuse Quotes

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The worst pain in our lives comes from the mistakes we refuse to acknowledge--the things we've done that are so our of harmony with who… — John Verdon
Every punch I threw with bad intentions to a vital area...I aimed for his ear...I wanted to bust his eardrum...Every punch had bad intentions...My record… — Mike Tyson
It is not pride when the beech-tree refuses to copy the oak. The only chance of any healthy life for it is to be as… — Phillips Brooks
I refuse to see literature as amusement, as a game. I think that you ought not to approach literature without a moral responsibility for every… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I refuse to let past bruises cover the light. It ain't all good, but it's all good enough so I know I'm alright — Eyedea
Don't pretend to be what you are not. Don't refuse to be what you are. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The past is what makes the present coherent, and the past will remain horrible for exactly as long as we refuse to assess it honestly. — James A. Baldwin
I am preparing myself for death. When I go to sleep, I try to keep myself smiling. So that when I die, I have a… — Zohra Sehgal
Coleridge declares that a man cannot have a good conscience who refuses apple dumplings, and I confess that I am of the same opinion. — Charles Lamb
The Ideal Man should talk to us as if we were goddesses, and treat us as if we were children. He should refuse all our… — Oscar Wilde
No matter what these terrorists do, I refuse to be terrorized. All this requires is just a few alterations in our day to day lives.… — Margaret Cho
The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. — Washington Irving
He who awaits the call, but sees the need, Already sets his spirit to refuse it. — Dante Alighieri
Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final… — Lillian Hellman
Let the dream unroll itself to its very end. You cannot help it. But you can look at the dream as a dream, refuse it… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
If wisdom were offered me with the proviso that I should keep it shut up and refrain from declaring it, I should refuse. There's no… — Seneca the Younger
To love the truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by it. — Andre Gide
Take the good with the evil, for ye all are pensioners of God, and none may choose or refuse the cup His wisdom mixeth. — Martin Farquhar Tupper
A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked... . We as black people, we as people, we as… — Nikki Giovanni

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