Refuses Quotes

320 quotes by 289 authors

The core issue here is that the Israeli government refuses to commit to terms of reference for the negotiations that are based on international law… — Mahmoud Abbas
The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions. — James A. Baldwin
Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is. — Albert Camus
The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the regular armies and… — Albert Camus
Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is. — Thomas Carlyle
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power. — Arthur C. Clarke
A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim. — Maya Angelou
The great end of art is to strike the imagination with the power of a soul that refuses to admit defeat even in the midst… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Not everyone is comfortable with the kissing ritual. My husband is one of them. Her refuses to press lips with anyone except his wife, mother,… — Erma Bombeck
Suppose a white man should come to me and say, "Joseph, I like your horses. I want to buy them." I say to him, "No,… — Chief Joseph
That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to are paid to antiquity, is a complaint likely to… — Ben Jonson
No law can give Congress a backbone if it refuses to stand off as the coequal branch the Constitution made it. — Trey Gowdy
Behold Jesus Christ crucified, Who is the only foundation of our hope; He is our Mediator and Advocate; the victim and sacrifice for our sins.… — Carlo Borromeo
The core of a soldier is moral discipline. It is intertwined with the discipline of physical and mental achievement. It motivates doing on your own… — William G. Bainbridge
Love is nourished only by sacrifices, and the more a soul refuses natural satisfactions, the stronger and more disinterested becomes her tenderness. — Therese of Lisieux
Despair has been called the unforgivable sin-not presumably because God refuses to forgive it, but because it despairs of the possibility of being forgiven. — Frederick Buechner
Nature refuses to sympathize with our sorrow. She seems not to have provided for, but by a thousand contrivances against it. — Henry David Thoreau
The world in which we live would benefit greatly if men and women everywhere would exercise the pure love of Christ, which is kind, meek,… — Howard W. Hunter
The soul refuses limits and always affirms an optimism, never a pessimism. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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