Refuse Quotes

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The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable… — Thomas Huxley
The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every… — Washington Irving
Hip-hop can be limiting and I refuse to accept limits. — LL Cool J
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as… — William James
A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference. — Thomas Jefferson
I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything,… — Helen Keller
I'm a person that carries everything that happened to me in my past, with me into the future. I refuse to let it make me… — Nicole Kidman
I refuse to let what happened to me make me bitter. — Nicole Kidman
I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion. — Dean Koontz
Torture is an impermissible evil. Except under two circumstances. The first is the ticking time bomb. An innocent's life is at stake. The bad guy… — Charles Krauthammer
Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how. — Madeleine M. Kunin
I absolutely refuse to reveal my age. What am I - a car? — Cyndi Lauper
As a real person, he wouldn't last a minute, would he? But drama is about imperfection. And we've moved away from the aspirational hero. We… — Hugh Laurie
This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten. — D. H. Lawrence
Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. — D. H. Lawrence
I will not bond. I will not share. I refuse to nurture. — Denis Leary
I refuse to accept Pluto's resignation as a planet. — Amy Lee
I refuse not to have a sense of humour. — Ken Livingstone

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