Refuse Quotes

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Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you. — Claudine Guerin de Tencin
On his refusal to deal with Keith Primeau: We refuse to pay a prima donna, a petulant, pouting player who had 30 goals last year… — Peter Karmanos, Jr.
Physical love is total intimacy. It is the sign that the lovers have nothing to refuse each other, that they belong wholly to each other.... — Jacques Leclercq
Our lives are shaped by those who love us as well as those who refuse to love us.... — Karl A. Menninger
You just do it. You force yourself to get up. You force yourself to put one foot before the other, and God damn it, you… — Elizabeth Taylor
Love is nourished only by sacrifices, and the more a soul refuses natural satisfactions, the stronger and more disinterested becomes her tenderness. — Therese of Lisieux
I've made it a rule never to drink by daylight and never to refuse a drink after dark. — H. L. Mencken
O Lord, please fill my mouth with worthwhile stuff, and nudge me when I've said enough. Enlightenment is the "quiet acceptance of what is" I… — Susan Jeffers
I will persist until I succeed. I was not delivered into this world into defeat, nor does failure course in my veins. I am not… — Og Mandino
The brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has no flesh or… — Pliny the Elder
It seems to me that I cannot afford, as a self-respecting individual, to refuse to do a thing merely because it will make me disliked… — Eleanor Roosevelt
A man of business will often deceive you without the slightest scruple, but he will absolutely refuse to commit a theft. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Things have their laws as well as men, and things refuse to be trifled with. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Despair has been called the unforgivable sin-not presumably because God refuses to forgive it, but because it despairs of the possibility of being forgiven. — Frederick Buechner
Nature refuses to sympathize with our sorrow. She seems not to have provided for, but by a thousand contrivances against it. — Henry David Thoreau
Absence of gratitude is the mark of the narrow, uneducated mind. It bespeaks a lack of knowledge and the ignorance of self-sufficiency. It expresses itself… — Gordon B. Hinckley
If we refuse our homage to statues and frigid images, the very counterpart of their dead originals, with which hawks, and mice, and spiders are… — Tertullian
I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which… — Martin Luther
The world in which we live would benefit greatly if men and women everywhere would exercise the pure love of Christ, which is kind, meek,… — Howard W. Hunter
The soul refuses limits and always affirms an optimism, never a pessimism. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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