Refuse Quotes

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Take sides! Always take sides! You will sometimes be wrong - but the man who refuses to take sides must always be wrong. — Robert A. Heinlein
I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound… — Gustave Flaubert
If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will… — Bertrand Russell
If rulers refuse to consider poems as crimes, then someone must commit crimes that serve the function of poetry, or texts that possess the resonance… — Hakim Bey
I believe if I refuse to grow old, I can stay young 'til I die. — Stephen Schwartz
I refuse to let the past find me here. — Libba Bray
He said you couldn't pretend the terrible things in life didn't happen. You can't clean it up. You keep all the refuse and the scars.… — Marisha Pessl
I am your Prince and you will marry me," Humperdinck said. Buttercup whispered, "I am your servant and I refuse." "I am you Prince and… — William Goldman
I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she… — Jane Austen
It was more work than it seemed, looking through a telescope, as the Earth was continually moving and you had to move along with it.… — Deb Caletti
But people only die in proper duels, you know, with real wizards. The most you and Malfoyâ€™ll be able to do is send sparks at… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
The true function of logic ... as applied to matters of experience ... is analytic rather than constructive; taken a priori, it shows the possibility… — Bertrand Russell
LIVE. If you live, god will live with you. If you refuse to run his risks, he'll retreat to that distant heaven and be merely… — Paulo Coelho
When I refuse to obey an unjust law, I do not contest the right of the majority to command, but I simply appeal from the… — Alexis de Tocqueville
What care I if it be "wild and improbable" and "lacking in literary art"? I refuse to be any longer hampered by such canons of… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Even in this place one can survive, and therefore one must want to survive, to tell the story, to bear witness; and that to survive… — Primo Levi
At moments when life is at its worst there are two things you can do: 1.) break down,lose hope and refuse to go on while… — Cecelia Ahern
But say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved. To pass our youth in dull indifference, to refuse… — William Congreve
A defeated argument that refuses to be obliterated can remain very alive. — Amartya Sen
Judges... are picked out from the most dextrous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy, and having been biased all their lives against truth or… — Jonathan Swift

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