Refuse Quotes

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I'm so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything — Jonathan Safran Foer
Behold the hands, how they promise, conjure, appeal, menace, pray, supplicate, refuse, beckon, interrogate, admire, confess, cringe, instruct, command, mock and what not besides, with… — Michel de Montaigne
I wonder if you can refuse to inherit the world. — Bill Watterson
Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity and… — Christopher Hitchens
You are my butterfly and refuse to set you free. — Shannon Hale
Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock… — Arundhati Roy
Colorful demonstrations and weekend marches are vital but alone are not powerful enough to stop wars. Wars will be stopped only when soldiers refuse to… — Arundhati Roy
I refuse putting from me the best that I am. — Walt Whitman
The ego refuses to be distressed by the provocations of reality, to let itself be compelled to suffer. It insists that it cannot be affected… — Sigmund Freud
Music isn't just a pleasure, a transient satisfaction. It's a need, a deep hunger; and when the music is right, it's joy. Love. A foretaste… — Orson Scott Card
Neither refuse to give help when it is needed,... nor refuse to accept it when it is offered. — Lloyd Alexander
And what of the dead? They lie without shoes in the stone boats. They are more like stone than the sea would be if it… — Anne Sexton
He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to refuse, free to equivocate;… — Jean-Paul Sartre
Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your life. The object can be stated this way: Live the best life you… — Frank Herbert
One challenge of our adventure on earth is to rise above dead systems...wars, nations, destructions...to refuse to be a part of them, and express the… — Richard Bach
Well, do you do that consciously?" Daily Alice asked, only partly of Cloud. "Do what?" Cloud said. "Grow up? No. Well. In a sense. You… — John Crowley
The child who refuses to travel in the father's harness, this is the symbol of man's most unique capability. "I do not have to be… — Frank Herbert
For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts. — Gertrude Stein
You can't spend your whole life criticizing something and then, when you have the chance to do it better, refuse to go near it. — Vaclav Havel
There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true. — Soren Kierkegaard

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