Refuse Quotes

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Never forget that anticipation is an important part of life. Work's important, family's important, but without excitement, you have nothing. You're cheating yourself if you… — Nicholas Sparks
I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony. ... A lot of good fiction is sentimental. ... The novelist who refuses… — Jim Harrison
Love chooses to believe the best about people. It gives them the benefit of the doubt. It refuses to fill in the unknowns with negative… — Stephen Kendrick
All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its… — Henry David Thoreau
...there are two ways to meet life; you may refuse to care until indifference becomes a habit, a defensive armor, and you are safe -… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Love's easy to learn. It's like taking a risk. You set your mind on it and refuse to be afraid, and in no time you… — Dick Francis
There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn't because the… — Mark Twain
... suffering does not ennoble. It destroys. To resist destruction, self-hatred, or lifelong hopelessness, we have to throw off the conditioning of being despised, the… — Dorothy Allison
When a bachelor of philosophy from the Antilles refuses to apply for certification as a teacher on the grounds of his color I say that… — Frantz Fanon
Itâ€™s not always easy to get over some of those bumps in the road, those disillusionments and disappointments. Itâ€™s going to take a strong will.… — Joel Osteen
I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though… — Ralph Ellison
Sometimes humans hit on a moment of profundity more complete than their dim minds could comprehend, and they took that nugget of truth and dumped… — Kelley Armstrong
The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time... and you can't see it if you refuse to… — William S. Burroughs
You refuse to own yourself, you permit others to do it for you — Margaret Atwood
Of course, the laws of science contain no matter and have no energy either and therefore do not exist except in people's minds. It's best… — Robert M. Pirsig
Tell me about this Wizard Howl of yours." "He's the best wizard in Ingary or anywhere else. If he'd only had time, he would have… — Diana Wynne Jones
The seat received him in a loose and distant kind of way, like an aunt who disapproves of the last fifteen years of your life… — Douglas Adams
It seems to me it's always the evil we refuse to see that does us the greatest harm. — Robert Baer
In my view, the pro-life movement at this point should focus on seeking to reduce the number of abortions. At times it will require political… — Dinesh D'Souza
When I hug her, I notice she's still wearing yesterday's false eyelashes. Mom? You know those come off with a little makeup remover and a… — Jen Lancaster

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