Refuses Quotes

320 quotes by 289 authors

Writers that pretend to be in the throes of some kind of genius-demon, some kind of possessing spirit that refuses to let them engage with… — Matt Fraction
Insofar as he makes use of his healthy senses, man himself is the best and most exact scientific instrument possible. The greatest misfortune of modern… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
This assumes an upward revision of the European Budget, which is precisely what Jacques Chirac refuses to do. On the contrary, he has demanded a… — Laurent Fabius
When every young man refuses to go to war, you will have peace. You do not defend any idea with violence. — Jane Roberts
As Israel prepares to enter, my position is well known. It is one that I have taken at previous Olympics. It is wrong that the… — Brian Williams
Madonna Kolbenschlag suggest that if an awakened woman forgoes innocence and denial, if she refuses to make compromises with herself and defect to patriarchy, then… — Sue Monk Kidd
Without a quest, life is quickly reduced to bleak black and wimpy white, a diet too bland to get anybody out of bed in the… — Charles R. Swindoll
Yet, like the sea and the gallows, London refuses nobody. — Peter Ackroyd
No doubt a man may be saved, like the penitent thief, without having received the Lord's Supper. It is not a matter of absolute and… — J C Ryle
The world, unfortunately, rarely matches our hopes and consistently refuses to behave in a reasonable manner. — Stephen Jay Gould
Praise consists in the love of God, in wonder at the goodness of God, in recognition of the gifts of God, in seeing God in… — Henry Edward Manning
Oh, my dear Kepler, how I wish that we could have one hearty laugh together. Here, at Padua, is the principal professor of philosophy, whom… — Galileo Galilei
The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act. — Bernard DeVoto
In a world where women are commodities, a woman who refuses to sell herself will have the thing she refuses to sell taken away from… — Angela Carter
Between the banks of pain and pleasure the river of life flows. It is only when the mind refuses to flow with life, and gets… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
It is not pride when the beech-tree refuses to copy the oak. The only chance of any healthy life for it is to be as… — Phillips Brooks
I am preparing myself for death. When I go to sleep, I try to keep myself smiling. So that when I die, I have a… — Zohra Sehgal
Coleridge declares that a man cannot have a good conscience who refuses apple dumplings, and I confess that I am of the same opinion. — Charles Lamb
Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many things… — James Joyce
It is the fellowship of the Cross to experience the burden of the other. If one does not experience it, the fellowship he belongs to… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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