Refuse Quotes

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The writer's first job is not to have opinions but to tell the truth... and refuse to be an accomplice of lies and misinformation. Literature… — Susan Sontag
If you make me your authority, you harm yourself because you will not see things for yourself, and you harm me too because you refuse… — Anthony de Mello
Though sands be black and bitter black the sea, Night lie before me and behind me night, And God within far Heaven refuse to light… — Madison Cawein
The people become more observant of justice, and do not refuse to submit to the laws when they see them obeyed by their enactor. — Claudius Claudianus
If we are ready to tolerate everything as understood, there is nothing left to explain; while if we sourly refuse to take anything, even tentatively,… — Nelson Goodman
The classicist, and the naturalist who has much in common with him, refuse to see in the highest works of art anything but the exercise… — Herbert Read
Becca Gardner is wonderful as the good-hearted little Griff who refuses to be daunted by all the heart-ache and resentment on dad's ranch and this… — Richard Roeper
I refuse to be in this world by myself. I want an open commitment from the rest of the people. — Robert Rauschenberg
The outlaw is the radical, the one close to the roots of existence. The one who refuses to forget their humanity and, in remembering, helps… — David Whyte
Perhaps the greatest contribution that those of us who come from a Christian tradition can make is to throw out the old just-war theory, embrace… — Mairead Corrigan
Maturity is the ability to harness your abilities and your energies and do more than is expected. The mature person refuses to settle for mediocrity.… — Ann Landers
One great mistake made by intelligent people is to refuse to believe that the world is as stupid as it is. — Claudine Guerin de Tencin
These international bankers and Rockefeller Standard Oil interests control the majority of newspapers and the columns of these papers to club into submission or drive… — Theodore Roosevelt
Don't just grab at the first thing that comes along. Know when to refuse something that won't get you anywhere — Will Rogers
A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it. Positive thinking is a form of thought which habitually… — Norman Vincent Peale
A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it. — Norman Vincent Peale
...a pie so delicate, so luscious, that I hope to be propped up on my dying bed and fed a generous portion. Then I think… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
A very real barrier to faith is this feeling of self-sufficiency, this unrealistic idea that one can accomplish everything by his or her own self.… — Norman Vincent Peale
If men are in a state in which they find it hard to be weaned from their own ways and choose rather to serve the… — Saint Basil
Some people draw a comforting distinction between force and violence. I refuse to cloud the issue by such word-play. The power which establishes a state… — Kenneth Kaunda

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