Refuses Quotes

320 quotes by 286 authors

There was a sound like a human yawn, and then the skull turned slightly toward me and asked, "What's up, boss?" "Evil's afoot." "Well, sure,"… — Jim Butcher
Nowadays, we never allow ourselves the convenience of being temporarily unavailable, even to strangers. With telephone and beeper, people subject themselves to being instantly accessible… — Judith Martin
Unless you are here: this garden refuses to exist. Pink dragonflies fall from the air and become scorpions scratching blood out of rocks. The rainbows… — Aberjhani
Our freedom of choice in a competitive society rests on the fact that, if one person refuses to satisfy our wishes, we can turn to… — Friedrich August von Hayek
He has resisted Temptation for Centuries, A stone cold warrior whose frozen heart refuses to thaw- Until Her.. — Tina St. John
How true is it that humanity refuses compromise during prosperity, and reaches out for arbitration when weak. — Jean Sasson
Feel oddly barren. My sickness is when words draw in their horns and the physical world refuses to be ordered, recreated, arranged and selected. I… — Sylvia Plath
Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise. Whoever feels himself walking on the path, and refuses to praise--that man or woman… — Unknown Author
Soon you start craving that intense attention with the hungry obsession of any junkie. When the drug is withheld you probably turn sick, crazy and… — Elizabeth Gilbert
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
A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
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 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
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.
The existence of good bad literatureâ€”the fact that one can be amused or excited or even moved by a book that one's intellect simply refuses… — George Orwell
[Educated blacks] Society refuses to consider them genuine Negroes. The Negro is a savage, whereas the student is civilized. "You're us," and if anyone thinks… — Frantz Fanon
There is something in natural affection which will lead it on to eternal love more easily than natural appetite could be led on. But there's… — C.S. Lewis
A lack of generosity refuses to acknowledge that your assets are not really yours, but God's. — Timothy Keller
Why don't we talk about your love life? Clary countered. "What about you and Alec?" "Alec refuses to acknowledge that we have a relationship, and… — Cassandra Clare

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