Refuse Quotes
1583 quotes by 1196 authors
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You know, it's a sad and unfortunate state of affairs that you have to live in a world where eight-year-olds refuse to believe in anything…
— CaitlÃn R. Kiernan
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I grant men the land, the government, the wealth, all the chances. I accept that you have to hold all the cards, since that's the…
— Pierre Beaumarchais
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I expected this reception. All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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The non-violent resistor not only avoids external, physical violence, but he avoids internal violence of spirit. He not only refuses to shoot his opponent, but…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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God has made us so that we must be mutually dependent. We may ignore our own dependence, or refuse to acknowledge that others depend upon…
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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They [Fairy Tales] are talking about real emotions, telling true stories, through the medium of metaphor. People used to understand metaphor better than I think…
— Jane Yolen
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True love is not a potion one person can swallow and another refuse to drink. It happens only when the souls of two join together…
— P. C. Cast
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I refuse to repent, and I won't plague myself over what is done and past
— Christopher Paolini
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The existence of good bad literature—the fact that one can be amused or excited or even moved by a book that one's intellect simply refuses…
— George Orwell
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To expose our hearts to truth and consistently refuse or neglect to obey the impulses it arouses is to stymie the motions of life within…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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I will make you an offer you cannot refuse
— Mario Puzo
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I refuse to believe that clubbing is how people are supposed to meet to establish relationships on a level for beyond what we consider to…
— Jon Richardson
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When the Lord makes it clear you're to follow Him in this new direction, focus fully on Him and refuse to be distracted by comparisons…
— Charles R. Swindoll
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Hate can only exist where people refuse to speak out against it.
— Yasmine Galenorn
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Isn’t it obvious, Sage? No, of course it isn’t. I did it so I’d have a reason to be around you — one I knew…
— Richelle Mead
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So let me see if I got everything straight … This … means that we are somehow meant to be husband and wife. But if…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the culture of all…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Oh confound that gray-and-scarlet suit!" Sophie said. "I refuse to believe that I was the one that got caught with it!
— Diana Wynne Jones
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His divine spark lives within me, a presence that will never leave. And I am but one of many tools He has at His disposal.…
— R.L. LaFevers
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Also, it was a bit hopeless," he said. "A bit defeatist." "If by defeatist you mean honest, then I agree." "I don't think defeatism is…
— John Green
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