Refuses Quotes
320 quotes by 289 authors
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There is no such thing as an insignificant life, only the insignificance of mind that refuses to grasp the implications.
— Laurence Overmire
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I'll have to keep looking for more of them, more brief moments of freedom in a world that refuses to allow it.
— Veronica Roth
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The Administration has made critical mistakes and errors in judgment leading up to the war in Iraq. The President refuses to acknowledge these mistakes, and…
— Zoe Lofgren
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Therefore, when a person refuses to come to Christ it is never just because of a lack of evidence or because of intellectual difficulties: at…
— William Lane Craig
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Faith never means gullibility. The man who believes everything is as far from God as the man who refuses to believe anything.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Non-violence confronts systematic injustice with active love, but refuses to retaliate with further violence under any circumstances. In order to halt the vicious cycles of…
— John Dear
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The present day composer refuses to die.
— Edgard Varese
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It is one of the great ironies of corporate control that the corporate state needs the abilities of intellectuals to maintain power, yet outside of…
— Chris Hedges
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The day of the daredevil reporter who refuses to see obstacles to getting the truth, and seeing it with his or her own eyes, seems…
— Alastair Campbell
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The writer who refuses to explore the darker regions of the heart will never be able to write convincingly about the wonder, the magic and…
— Nick Cave
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I attempt all day, at work, not to think about what lies ahead, but this costs me so much effort that there is nothing left…
— Lydia Davis
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Some men find happiness in gluttony and in drunkenness, but no delicate viands can touch their taste with the thrill of pleasure, and what generosity…
— Edwin Percy Whipple
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The principle that the majority have a right to rule the minority, practically resolves all government into a mere contest between two bodies of men,…
— Lysander Spooner
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A man rejects God neither because of intellectual demands nor because of the scarcity of evidence. A man rejects God because of a moral resistance…
— Ravi Zacharias
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I want to make all Europe and America know it – I want to make England feel her weakness if she refuses to give the…
— Daniel O'Connell
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And because God's love is uncoercive and treasures our freedom - if above all he wants us to love him, then we must be left…
— Frederick Buechner
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After all that corrupt poets, and more corrupt philosophers, have told us of the blandishments of pleasure, and of its tendency to soften the temper…
— Hannah More
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He brings to naught, destroys and rejects all that is not His own work; how He draws everything to Himself and absorbs it, that at…
— Gerhard Tersteegen
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True greatness merely refuses to change in the face of bad actions against one—and a truly great person loves his fellows because he understands them.
— L. Ron Hubbard
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A boy may be as disagreeable as he pleases, but when a girl refuses to crap sunshine on command, the world mutters darkly about her…
— Scott Lynch
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