Refuses Quotes

320 quotes by 289 authors

For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts. — Gertrude Stein
Some dangers are so spectacular and so much beyond normal experience that the mind refuses to accept them as real, and watches the approach of… — Arthur C. Clarke
You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go. — Bill Watterson
I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony. ... A lot of good fiction is sentimental. ... The novelist who refuses… — Jim Harrison
Love chooses to believe the best about people. It gives them the benefit of the doubt. It refuses to fill in the unknowns with negative… — Stephen Kendrick
When a bachelor of philosophy from the Antilles refuses to apply for certification as a teacher on the grounds of his color I say that… — Frantz Fanon
The seat received him in a loose and distant kind of way, like an aunt who disapproves of the last fifteen years of your life… — Douglas Adams
Take sides! Always take sides! You will sometimes be wrong - but the man who refuses to take sides must always be wrong. — Robert A. Heinlein
The true function of logic ... as applied to matters of experience ... is analytic rather than constructive; taken a priori, it shows the possibility… — Bertrand Russell
A defeated argument that refuses to be obliterated can remain very alive. — Amartya Sen
Every one has experienced how learning an appropriate name for what was dim and vague cleared up and crystallized the whole matter. Some meaning seems… — John Dewey
But my dreaming self refuses to be consoled. It continues to wander, aimless, homeless, alone. It cannot be convinced of its safety by any evidence… — Margaret Atwood
Sometimes, a flame can be utterly extinguished. Sometimes, a flame can shrink and waver, but sometimes a flame refuses to go out. It flares up… — Karen Hesse
I've always known that the quality of love was the mind, even though the body sometimes refuses this knowledge. The body lives for itself. It… — Ray Bradbury
Philosophy and science have not always been friendly toward the idea of God, the reason being they are dedicated to the task of accounting for… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
He says he had to go help someone in a desperate situation. Who, exactly, he refuses to say. He doesnâ€™t know when heâ€™s going to… — Katie MacAlister
She [MÃ©rian] shook her head sadly. 'What Bran wants is impossible.' 'Well,' I [Will] said, 'I wouldn't be too sure. I have seen the lone… — Stephen R. Lawhead
When someone refuses to tell me a certain piece of information, it only makes me that much more determined to find out the truth. I… — Christopher Paolini
Swayâ€™s an idiot who didnâ€™t order them when we used up the last bunch. (Vik) Isnâ€™t that your job? (Devyn) No. Iâ€™m the sub-idiot. Swayâ€™s… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Words are worth little when the heart refuses to hear. Therefore, judge us by our works. — Stephen R. Lawhead

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