Refusing Quotes
246 quotes by 223 authors
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Whereas Iraq has consistently breached its cease-fire agreement between Iraq and the United States, entered into on March 3, 1991, by failing to dismantle its…
— Tom Harkin
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Ed Woolard, his mentor on the Apple board, pressed Jobs for more than two years to drop the interim in front of his CEO title.…
— Walter Isaacson
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Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request.
— Arthur Helps
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A man to whom you do a favor will not understand if you say nothing, make no noise, just walk away. You may cause more…
— Chinua Achebe
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Is it better to work out consciously and critically one's own conception of the world and thus, in connection with the labours of one's own…
— Antonio Gramsci
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Love is a sickness full of woes, all remedies refusing.
— Samuel Daniel
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It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot.
— Robert Walpole
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Pacifism in the face of war is not only irresponsible - it is immoral. Refusing to meet force with force in the name of peace…
— David Limbaugh
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What would be the difference if we retreated and let the French and Germans make decisions for the world? We tried that twice in the…
— Tammy Bruce
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A man cannot free himself by any self-denying ordinances, neither by water nor potatoes, nor by violent possibilities, by refusing to swear, refusing to pay…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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One says a lot in vain, refusing; The other mainly hears the "No.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Refusing to have an opinion is a way of having one, isn't it?
— Luigi Pirandello
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We are interested in stifling the sale of this book. We believe that this can be best accomplished by refusing to be stampeded into giving…
— Madison Grant
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I found so many Jews and speculators here trading in cotton, and secessionists had become so open in refusing anything but gold, that I have…
— William Tecumseh Sherman
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My personal missteps - how many Americans have died as a result of that? None. Other than my family, how many victims were there? None.…
— Scott Ritter
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There is more to joy than looking only for affirmation; refusing to be challenged is the only bigotry.
— Criss Jami
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We tend to think that refusing to exalt Christ is staying true to our self-will and personal freedom when really we are condemning ourselves. Sure,…
— Criss Jami
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They have a lot of trouble with pronunciation, because they can't move their jaw muscles, because of malnutrition caused by wisely refusing to eat English…
— Dave Barry
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In New York we have streets exploding and innocent Buddhist girls being stabbed in the neck and cabdrivers refusing to help her. If we happen…
— Cynthia Heimel
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I like relativity and quantum theories because I don't understand them and they make me feel as if space shifted about like a swan that…
— D. H. Lawrence
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