Refuse Quotes

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Nature still obstinately refuses to co-operate by making the rich people innately superior to the poor people. — Beatrice Webb
We shall not refuse tobacco the credit of being sometimes medical, when used temperately, though an acknowledged poison. — Jesse Torrey
Make bold moves toward your dreams each day, refuse to stop and nothing can stop you. — Hal Elrod
How does God's love abide in anyone who has the world's goods and sees a brother or sister in need and yet refuses help? Little… — John the Apostle
We have no honorable intentions in Vietnam. Our minimal expectation is to occupy it as an American colony and maintain social stability for our investments.… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The earth does not argue, Is not pathetic, has no arrangements, Does not scream, haste, persuade, threaten, promise, Makes no discriminations, has no conceivable failures,… — Walt Whitman
I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have… — Martial
Am I caught in a self-centred, narrow little cell which refuses to look beyond? Do I see it when you come along and tell me… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
A society that refuses to strive for superfluities is likely to end up lacking in necessities. — Eric Hoffer
The imitator treads a beaten walk, and with all his diligence can only find a few flowers or branches untouched by his predecessor, the refuse… — Samuel Johnson
Today we haven't the heart to expel the painters and poets from society because we refuse to admit to ourselves that there is any danger… — Pablo Picasso
To love means not to impose your own powers on your fellow man but offer him your help. And if he refuses it, to be… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
To forgive somebody is to say one way or another, "You have done something unspeakable, and by all rights I should call it quits between… — Frederick Buechner
Surely when a man is painting a picture he ought not refuse to hear any man's opinion... Since men are able to form a true… — Leonardo da Vinci
Subdue By force, who reason for their law refuse, Right reason for their law. — John Milton
We shouldn't deny the pain of what happens in our lives. We should just refuse to focus only on the valleys. — Charles R. Swindoll
Virtue is the nursing-mother of all human pleasures, who, in rendering them just, renders them also pure and permanent; in moderating them, keeps them in… — Socrates
Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action. — Stendhal
We do not choose to be born.We do not--most of us, choose to die, or the times or conditions of our death. But within all… — Joseph Epstein
I refuse to be misled by any kind of a mirage about any alleged success of what I write. Those things are too easily exaggerated,… — Thomas Merton

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