Refuses Quotes
320 Refuses quotes by 274 unique authors
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I believe that close association with one who refuses to compromise with circumstances he does not like, is an asset that can never be measured…
— Napoleon Hill
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Creative people rarely need to be motivated-they have their own inner drive that refuses to be bored. They refuse to be complacent. They live on…
— Donald Trump
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No history is mute. No matter how much they own it, break it, and lie about it, human history refuses to shut its mouth. Despite…
— Eduardo Galeano
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A man's passion for the mountain is, above all, his childhood which refuses to die.
— Francois Mauriac
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No one is ahead of his time, it is only that the particular variety of creating his time is the one that his contemporaries who…
— Gertrude Stein
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Whoever stubbornly refuses to accept criticism will suddenly be broken beyond repair.
— Solomon
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A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice.…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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When we look at the love of Christ, we make a wonderful discovery. Love is more a decision than an emotion! Christ-like love applauds good…
— Max Lucado
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No one seeing a beautifully elaborated lyre with its harmonious, orderly arrangement, and hearing the lyre's music will fail to form a notion of its…
— Gregory of Nazianzus
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Abram, having failed in Genesis 13, comes through with flying colors in this battle of faith because he aligns himself with God, and he refuses…
— Ligon Duncan
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We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship…
— Anais Nin
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The race problem in the United States is the type of unpleasant problem which we would rather do without but which refuses to be buried.
— Charles Hamilton Houston
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A community which refuses to welcome - whether through fear, weariness, insecurity, a desire to cling to comfort, or just because it is fed up…
— Jean Vanier
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This rule of silence is upheld when the culture refuses everyone easy access even to the word “patriarchy.” Most children do not learn what to…
— Bell Hooks
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To everyone in this Congress who still refuses to raise the minimum wage, I say this: If you truly believe you could work full-time and…
— Barack Obama
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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
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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
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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
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When every young man refuses to go to war, you will have peace. You do not defend any idea with violence.
— Jane Roberts
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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
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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
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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
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Yet, like the sea and the gallows, London refuses nobody.
— Peter Ackroyd
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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
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The world, unfortunately, rarely matches our hopes and consistently refuses to behave in a reasonable manner.
— Stephen Jay Gould
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