Refuse Quotes
1583 quotes by 1196 authors
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Minds vary in sensitiveness and in self-power, as bodies do in susceptibility of attraction and repulsion. When, when shall we learn that they are governed…
— James Anthony Froude
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It is ill changing the creed to meet each rising temptation. The soul is truer than it seems, and refuses to be trifled with.
— James Anthony Froude
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No one is beat till he quits, no one is through till he stops. No matter how hard failure hits, no matter how often he…
— Edgar Guest
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The left is entering a new phase of ideological agitation no longer trying to win the debate but stopping debate altogether, banishing from public discourse…
— Charles Krauthammer
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Ah why refuse the blameless bliss? Can danger lurk within a kiss?
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Modern critics, who refuse to let a plain thing alone, have now started a theory that Cervantes's work is a vast piece of "symbolism." If…
— Stephen Leacock
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If Willie Nelson had been Rosa Parks, there never would have been a civil rights movement in this country, because he refuses to leave the…
— Kinky Friedman
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Like some kind of particularly tenacious vampire the short story refuses to die, and seems at this point in time to be a wonderful length…
— Neil Gaiman
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What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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I think there's something peculiar about me that I haven't died. It doesn't make sense but I refuse to die.
— Judy Garland
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I refuse to work unless I get paid, so I don't get a lot of work sometimes.
— Frank Gehry
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Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave…
— Andre Gide
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A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked, don't want to go without guarantee. But that's what's got…
— Nikki Giovanni
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If the person at the wheel refuses to ask for directions, it is time for a new driver.
— Jennifer Granholm
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Until women themselves reject stigma and refuse to feel shame for the way others treat them, they have no hope of achieving full human stature.
— Germaine Greer
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Insomniacs tend to fall into two general categories - those who give up and those who don't. I don't. I refuse to admit defeat by…
— Sloane Crosley
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To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed…
— Aleister Crowley
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I wish the government and the Minister of Justice would address these legal and constitutional arguments, but they refuse to. They want Canadians to go…
— Stockwell Day
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Our national media refuses to report that even the Supreme Court did not say marriage was a human right in all cases nor did it…
— Stockwell Day
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Well, first of all, no professor should be able to say, I refuse to defend my position. I refuse to debate my position.
— Alan Dershowitz
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