Refuse Quotes

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Nowadays, we never allow ourselves the convenience of being temporarily unavailable, even to strangers. With telephone and beeper, people subject themselves to being instantly accessible… — Judith Martin
Unless you are here: this garden refuses to exist. Pink dragonflies fall from the air and become scorpions scratching blood out of rocks. The rainbows… — Aberjhani
As more people of color raise our consciousness and refuse to be pitted against one another, the forces of neo-colonial white supremacist domination must work… — Bell Hooks
I know you don't want this, Katsa. But I can't help myself. The moment you came barreling into my life I was lost. I'm afraid… — Kristin Cashore
But if I must be alone, I refuse to be alone as if it were something weak and distasteful, like convalescence. — M.F.K. Fisher
We cannot worship the suffering God today and ignore him tomorrow. We cannot eat and drink the body and blood of the passionate and compassionate… — N. T. Wright
I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse. — Marlon Brando
Our freedom of choice in a competitive society rests on the fact that, if one person refuses to satisfy our wishes, we can turn to… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Please don't worry. I will always come for you. I won't let you go until you understand that." "Then I refuse to understand," she said. — Lauren Kate
We can lift ourselves, and others as well, when we refuse to remain in the realm of negative thought and cultivate within our hearts an… — Thomas S. Monson
The desire to be seen as superior and singular- and, conversely, but similarly, inferior and individual, is a big topic...They have a term for the… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
When the wind is right and the cloud is gone, you can see down this road as far as Darjeeling," I told her. "But it… — Deanna Raybourn
Oh, she doesn't belong to anybody now,' he said, and suddenly I saw her for what she was - a piece of refuse waiting to… — Graham Greene
I'll make him an offer he can't refuse. — Mario Puzo
At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they… — Frances Hodgson Burnett
We could say that the human race is a great coauthorship in which we are collaborating with God and nature in the making of ourselves… — Wendell Berry
Pessimism is not in being tired of evil but in being tired of good. Despair does not lie in being weary of suffering, but in… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Black males who refuse categorization are rare, for the price of visibility in the contemporary world of white supremacy is that black identity be defined… — Bell Hooks
emotion clouds the rational, and many perspectives guide the full reality. To view current events as a historian is to account for all perspectives, even… — R A Salvatore
In life we sit at the table and refuse to eat, and in death we are eternally hungry. — Nicole Krauss

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