Refusal Quotes - Page 14

• In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.

  Margaret Halsey

  Political, Growth, Defeated

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• Your suffering is shaped exactly by your refusal to open.

  David Deida

  Suffering

  David Deida (2009). “Blue Truth: A Spiritual Guide to Life and Death and Love and Sex”, p.19, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I hated myself and the world because I had failed to face and accept the limitations of my self and of life. In literature this refusal is called romanticism; in psychology, neurosis.

  Luke Rhinehart

  Self, Psychology, Faces

  Luke Rhinehart (2012). “The Dice Man”, p.15, HarperCollins UK

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• American commercial cinema has long been dominated by men, but I don’t think there has ever been another time when women have been as underrepresented on screen as they are now. The biggest problem isn’t genuinely independent cinema, where lower budgets mean more opportunities for women in front of and behind the camera. The problem is the six major studios that dominate the box office, the entertainment chatter and the popular imagination. Their refusal to hire more female directors is immoral, maybe illegal, and has helped create and sustain a representational ghetto for women.

  Manohla Dargis

  Mean, Independent, Ghetto

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• The Lord commands the wife to be submissive. Refusal to submit to the husband is therefore rebellion against God Himself. Submission to the husband is a test of her love for God as well as a test of love for her husband. The wife then must look upon her submission to her husband as an act of obedience to Christ and not merely to her husband.

  Wayne Mack

  Husband, Wife, Tests

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• This of course is the way to talk to dragons, if you don't want to reveal your proper name which is wise, and don't want to infuriate them by a flat refusal which is also very wise. No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time to trying to understand it.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Wise, Dragons, Names

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.119, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The easiest rationalization for the refusal to seek the truth is the denial that truth exists.

  Sidney Hook

  Interesting, Denial, Truth Is

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• The refusal to take sides on great moral issues is itself a decision. It is a silent acquiescence to evil. The Tragedy of our time is that those who still believe in honesty lack fire and conviction, while those who believe in dishonesty are full of passionate conviction.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Honesty, Believe, Issues

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• You are already that which you want to be, and your refusal to believe this is the only reason you do not see it.

  Neville Goddard

  Believe, Want, Reason

  Neville Goddard “Neville's Spiritual Classics”, Lulu.com

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• A different kind of pleasure surfaced in the aftermath, the pleasure of seeing the towers fall time and again, the experience of being entranced by the visual spectacle, and then also the very graphic forms of public mourning for exemplary citizens (taking place at the same time as the refusal to mourn the undocumented, the foreign, gay and lesbian lives lost there, for example). I am not sure that the guilt over the pleasure re-installed the good citizen.

  Judith Butler

  Fall, Gay, Mourning

  Interview With Cihan Aksan, Jon Bailes, www.counterpunch.org. October 11, 2013.

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• The real reason we haven't had peace is because of a persistent refusal of the Palestinians to recognize a Jewish state in any border.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Real, Borders, Reason

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• The goal of this generation's pioneers should be to restrict procreation and limit consumption. They should also take every opportunity to make themselves happy, realizing that the key to self-generated happiness (the only reliable kind) is the refusal to take oneself too seriously.

  Tom Robbins

  Opportunity, Self, Keys

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• A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.

  Samuel Richardson

  Widows, Lovers, Explicit

  Samuel Richardson (1980). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments: a facsimile reproduction”, Scholars Facsimilies & Reprint

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• I do assure you that I am not one of those young ladies (if such young ladies there are) who are so daring as to risk their happiness on the chance of being asked a second time. I am perfectly serious in my refusal. You could not make me happy, and I am convinced that I am the last woman in the world who could make you so.

  Elizabeth Bennett

  Risk, Prejudice, World

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