They Refuse Quotes

48 quotes by 46 authors

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English. — Winston Churchill
People of character do the right thing, not because they think it will change the world but because they refuse to be changed by the… — Michael Josephson
Men are perfectly willing to abandon a woman but they refuse to be abandoned by her. — Honore de Balzac
The sciences have sworn among themselves an inviolable partnership; it is almost impossible to separate them, for they would rather suffer than be torn apart;… — Marin Mersenne
Our dreams disturb us because they refuse to pander to our fondest notions of ourselves. The closer one looks, the more they seem to insist… — Marc Ian Barasch
Why would scientists dedicated to uncovering the truth about the natural world deliberately misrepresent the work of their own colleagues? Why would they spread accusations… — Naomi Oreskes
Well Washington DC what are you going to do. They think the capitol steps are the state of the art in comedy. You try to… — Harry Shearer
A lot of singers think all they have to do is exercise their tonsils to get ahead. They refuse to look for new ideas and… — Ella Fitzgerald
Actually, today I had to defend the Bush Administration in France again. They refuse to accept, because of their political ideology, that he has actually… — Bob Geldof
Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be… — George Bernard Shaw
Today, the European Union is busy transferring aid. If they can build infrastructure in Spain, roads, highways ... why do they refuse to use the… — Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
These days, however, the main problem comes from the right - from conservatives who, unlike most economists, really do think that the free market is… — Paul Krugman
Those who prefer their principles over their happiness, they refuse to be happy outside the conditions they seem to have attached to their happiness. — Albert Camus
Precious things lost are transmutable. They refuse oblivion. They simply wait to be rendered into testimonies, into stories and songs. — Andrew Lam
Those who enter to buy, support me. Those who come to flatter, please me. Those who complain, teach me how I may please others so… — Marshall Field
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
Children have a remarkable talent for not taking the adult world with the kind of respect we are so confident it ought to be given.… — Conrad Hyers
Hypocrites are those who apply to others the standards that they refuse to accept for themselves. — Noam Chomsky
We note the increasing coarseness of language and understand how Lot must have felt when he was, according to Peter, "vexed with the filthy conversation… — Spencer W. Kimball
Prophets are those who take life as it is and expand it. They refuse to shrink a vision of tomorrow to the boundaries of yesterday. — Joan D. Chittister

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