Refuse Quotes
1583 quotes by 1196 authors
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In places this book is a little over-written, because Mr Blunden is no more able to resist a quotation than some people are to refuse…
— George Orwell
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I refuse to believe that we're only here to live and die.
— Amy Grant
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I'm not a writer who refuses to talk about a book until I've finished.
— Markus Zusak
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I'm really happy to be me, and I'd like to think people like me more because I'm happy with myself and not because I refuse…
— Adele
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If it be admitted that a man, possessing absolute power, may misuse that power by wronging his adversaries, why should a majority not be liable…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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It's an odd thing but when you tell someone the true facts of a mythical tale they are indignant not with the teller but with…
— Josephine Tey
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Only those blinded by greed would refuse to let a friend make a copy.
— Aaron Swartz
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I hold that space cannot be curved, for the simple reason that it can have no properties. These properties we can only speak of when…
— Nikola Tesla
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The Psalms offer us a way of joining in a chorus of praise and prayer that has been going on for millennia and across all…
— N. T. Wright
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As a composer, I believe that music has the power to inspire a renewal of human consciousness, culture, and politics. And yet I refuse to…
— John Luther Adams
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You may claim to love Jesus but your life proves you are still walking in darkness—confused, befuddled and foggy! When you are truly in love…
— David Wilkerson
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Do not refuse a wing to the persons who gave you the whole chicken.
— Ralph Siu
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Many survivors refuse to talk about what they went through but I've never been ashamed to have been in one of those places. The shame…
— Mary Norris
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For this very reason I refuse all the tricks of the trade and professional virtuosity which could make me betray my career. As soon as I…
— Andre Kertesz
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The wheel of the Good Law moves swiftly on. It grinds by night and day. The worthless husks it drives from out the golden grain,…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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I warn you, I refuse to be an object.
— Leonora Carrington
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I've learned that when someone does something very kind and refuses payment, giving them an engraved Swiss Army knife is never refused!
— Christine Lavin
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Some guy refuses to fight and we call that the sin, but he's standing up for what he believes in and that seems pretty damned…
— Iris DeMent
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He who tenders doubtful safety to those in trouble refuses it.
— Seneca the Younger
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