Refuse Quotes
1583 quotes by 1196 authors
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Men are perfectly willing to abandon a woman but they refuse to be abandoned by her.
— Honore de Balzac
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The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.
— Simon Wiesenthal
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We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion. Many refuse to admit it: I feel a…
— Ansel Adams
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A favor is half granted, when graciously refused.
— Jonathan Swift
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Money refused loose its brightness.
— George Herbert
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Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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The right of an individual to refuse to kill, to torture, or to participate in the preparation for the nuclear destruction of humanity seems to…
— Sean MacBride
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Men professing godliness offer their bodies upon Satan's altar, and burn the incense of tobacco to his satanic majesty. Does this statement seem severe? The…
— Ellen G. White
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The individual who refuses to defend his rights when called by his government deserves to be a slave, and must be punished as an enemy…
— Andrew Jackson
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Have the daring to stop doing the things you really don't want to do. Can you see them? Look closely. Can you observe the many…
— Vernon Howard
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Mental toughness is many things and rather difficult to explain. Its qualities are sacrifice and self-denial. Also, most importantly, it is combined with a perfectly…
— Vince Lombardi
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The man who refuses to judge, who neither agrees nor disagrees, who declares that there are no absolutes and believes that he escapes responsibility, is…
— Ayn Rand
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One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those…
— Thomas Sowell
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Refuse to let the thought of death bother you: nothing is grim when we have escaped that fear.
— Seneca the Younger
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If you want prosperity, you must refuse to accept any circumstances that lead toward poverty.
— Napoleon Hill
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No aphorism is more frequently repeated in connection with field trials, than that we must ask Nature few questions, or, ideally, one question, at a…
— Ronald Fisher
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Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.
— Hillel the Elder
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Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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"I refuse to prove that I exist" says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith, I am nothing." "Oh," says man, "but the Babel…
— Douglas Adams
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