Refuse Quotes

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Here and there among men, there are those who pause in the hurried rush to listen to the call of a life that is more… — Harold Bell Wright
You refuse to listen. Because, like every other man, you can keep only one idea in your head at a time-usully the wrong one. — Loretta Chase
You've never heard of Chaos theory? Non-linear equations? Strange attractors? Ms. Sattler, I refuse to believe you're not familiar with the concept of attraction. — Michael Crichton
Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are. — Michel Foucault
This poem has been called obscure. I refuse to believe that it is obscurer than pity, violence, or suffering. But being a poem, not a… — Dylan Thomas
Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional… — Albert Einstein
Periods' are largely an invention of the historians. The poets themselves are not conscious of living in any period and refuse to conform to the… — C.S. Lewis
It would be wrong to refuse to face the fact that everything is fundamentally sick and sad. — Thomas Bernhard
This was too much. "I refuse. I absolutely REFUSE to be an onion. — Louise Fitzhugh
In a language as idiomatically stressed as English, opportunities for misreadings are bound to arise. By a mere backward movement of stress, a verb can… — Ian Mcewan
I truly believe that the death of my mother has made me the way I am today. I am a survivor, mentally strong, determined, stronwilled,… — Hope Edelman
A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Cats randomly refuse to follow orders to prove they can. — Ilona Andrews
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them,… — Grant Morrison
The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new ones. — Giacomo Casanova
It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Avoid men who call you Baby, and women who have no friends, and dogs that scratch at their bellies and refuse to lie down at… — Alice Hoffman
You reach a moment in life when, among the people you have known, the dead outnumber the living. And the mind refuses to accept more… — Italo Calvino
I did not understand that she was hiding her feelings under irony, that this is usually the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
I can see why she feels left behind. Maybe even discarded. Is that why she refuses to accept my love and return it? Afraid that… — Ellen Hopkins

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