Refuse Quotes
1583 quotes by 1196 authors
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She [Mérian] shook her head sadly. 'What Bran wants is impossible.' 'Well,' I [Will] said, 'I wouldn't be too sure. I have seen the lone…
— Stephen R. Lawhead
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I've always found that one of the biggest benefits of being a girl is that most people refuse to take you seriously. While boys must…
— Kirsten Miller
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When someone refuses to tell me a certain piece of information, it only makes me that much more determined to find out the truth. I…
— Christopher Paolini
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Things refuse to be mismanaged for long.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try and deny the same to others,…
— Christopher Hitchens
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The intellect of man is forced to choose Perfection of the life, or of the work And if it take the second must refuse A…
— William Butler Yeats
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Thus I draw from the absurd three consequences, which are my revolt, my freedom, and my passion. By the mere activity of consciousness I transform…
— Albert Camus
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I want the part of you that you refuse to give.
— Ellen Hopkins
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I refuse to "look up." Optimism nauseates me. It is perverse. Since man's fall, his proper position in the universe has been one of misery.
— John Kennedy Toole
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Protest is when I say I don't like this. Resistance is when I put an end to what I don't like. Protest is when I…
— Ulrike Meinhof
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Sway’s an idiot who didn’t order them when we used up the last bunch. (Vik) Isn’t that your job? (Devyn) No. I’m the sub-idiot. Sway’s…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.
— Cassandra Clare
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Words are worth little when the heart refuses to hear. Therefore, judge us by our works.
— Stephen R. Lawhead
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Prejudice is a disease. And when they come for you, or refuse your worth, I will be ready for their stones. I belong to you.
— Lady Gaga
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One must always be careful of books,' said Tessa, 'and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.' 'I'm not sure…
— Cassandra Clare
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Whoever reaches into a rosebush may seize a handful of flowers; but no matter how many one holds, it's only a small portion of the…
— Lou Andreas-Salomé
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Gentlemen, let us suppose that man is not stupid. (Indeed one cannot refuse to suppose that, if only from the one consideration, that, if man…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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It's not death if you refuse it... It is if you accept it.
— James O'Barr
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There was a sound like a human yawn, and then the skull turned slightly toward me and asked, "What's up, boss?" "Evil's afoot." "Well, sure,"…
— Jim Butcher
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Taking the line of least resistance, we lump the most different people together under the same heading. Taking the line of least resistance, we ascribe…
— Amin Maalouf
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