Refused Quotes
430 quotes by 381 authors
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My favorite was Love Is...Never Having to Say You're Sorry. This was,the good Lord knew, a dream of mine. But every time I refused to…
— Haven Kimmel
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It’s not just Israel who refuses to speak to Hamas. It’s the whole international community… Most of the democratic world refuses to have a relationship…
— Mark Regev
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Too many people have refused to begin running or have quickly dropped out of running programs because they 'have no talent for it.' Ridiculous. Talent…
— Amby Burfoot
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Both Marx and Nietzsche understood that moral outrage is the last resort of the powerless. That is why Marx refused to issue moral condemnations of…
— Robert Paul Wolff
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If there's a god, it knows exactly what it would take to convince me and has refused to provide it. In fact, it has gone…
— David G. McAfee
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I had refused to pay any attention to the moral laws upon which all our vitality and sanity depend: and so now I was reduced…
— Thomas Merton
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It is told of Faraday that he refused to be called a physicist; he very much disliked the new name as being too special and…
— Lionel Trilling
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The earthly meaning of eternal life was death, and she refused to die.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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I guess we were kinda poor when we were kids, but we didn't know it. That's because my dad always refused to let us look…
— Frankie Boyle
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When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle, a difficulty that…
— Beverly Cleary
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Goethe died in 1832. As you know, Goethe was very active in science. In fact, he did some very good scientific work in plant morphology…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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There is a lake that one day refused to flow away and threw up a dam at the place where it had before flowed out…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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And what is an authentic madman? It is a man who preferred to become mad, in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than…
— Antonin Artaud
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I met with my lawyers. They gave me all the wrong advice. For a long time I refused to accept the child was mine. I…
— Boris Becker
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I wondered about the science of storms and how sometimes it seemed that a storm wanted to break the world and how the world refused…
— Benjamin Alire Saenz
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Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have…
— Laurence Housman
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For most of my writing life, I've refused to allow myself to believe that writing was a significant form of action. I always felt very…
— Athol Fugard
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Yet, I wondered why Marshall did not at least attempt a kiss. In many ways, his treatment of me reminded me of the way I…
— Kathleen Grissom
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As a defense lawyer, he refused to condemn his clients. Everyone else in the system-the cops, the prosecutors, the juries and judges-would take care of…
— Scott Turow
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I cannot face the idea of life without work. What would one do when ideas failed or words refused to come? It is impossible not…
— Sigmund Freud
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