Refuses Quotes
320 quotes by 289 authors
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The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.
— Simon Wiesenthal
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Men professing godliness offer their bodies upon Satan's altar, and burn the incense of tobacco to his satanic majesty. Does this statement seem severe? The…
— Ellen G. White
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The individual who refuses to defend his rights when called by his government deserves to be a slave, and must be punished as an enemy…
— Andrew Jackson
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Mental toughness is many things and rather difficult to explain. Its qualities are sacrifice and self-denial. Also, most importantly, it is combined with a perfectly…
— Vince Lombardi
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The man who refuses to judge, who neither agrees nor disagrees, who declares that there are no absolutes and believes that he escapes responsibility, is…
— Ayn Rand
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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.
— Hillel the Elder
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My mother won't admit it, but I've always been a disappointment to her. Deep down inside, she'll never forgive herself for giving birth to a…
— Erma Bombeck
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Because there's nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it's sent away.
— Sarah Kay
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Only when someone refuses to do certain things will he be capable of doing great things.
— Mencius
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In a nation that has developed to a high art advertising, the creator who refuses to advertise himself is immediately suspected of having no product…
— Gore Vidal
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The gentle government that promises to hold your hand as you cross the street refuses to let go on the other side.
— Theodore J. Forstmann
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The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed - where the government refuses…
— Alex Kozinski
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She taught you how to be a person who refuses anything but the meaningful.
— Michael Silverblatt
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The man who can face vilification and disgrace, who can stand up against the popular current, even against his friends and his country when he…
— Alexander Berkman
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Society is defined not only by what it creates, but by what it refuses to destroy.
— John C. Sawhill
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I feel that homophobia runs rampant in the music industry, and that artists are allowed to speak openly in a hateful way, in a homophobic…
— Lady Gaga
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The practical man is the adventurer, the investigator, the believer in research, the asker of questions, the man who refuses to believe that perfection has…
— Henry Harrower
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Optimism refuses to believe that the road ends without options.
— Robert H. Schuller
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Scientific greatness is less a matter of intelligence than character; if the scientist refuses to compromise or accept incomplete answers and persists in grappling the…
— Albert Einstein
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A woman gains status when she refuses to see anything killed to be put on her back. Then she’s truly beautiful.
— Doris Day
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