Refuse Quotes - Page 39

• Those who refuse the long drudgery of thought, and think with the heart rather than the head, are ever the most fiercely dogmatic in tone.

  Peter Bayne

  Heart, Thinking, Long

  Peter Bayne (1858). “Essays in Biography and Criticism”, p.20

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• Rebels are the people who refuse the seen for the unseen.

  Anne Douglas Sedgwick

  People, Rebel, Unseen

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• An invitation to be a bridesmaid is an honor which cannot be declined without some very good reason. Our idea of one of the better reasons is the impending arrival of a little stranger. ... any lady in this interesting condition should have the grace to refuse. We know that symbols of fertility are appropriate to the marriage ceremony, but they needn't be quite so obviously borne in on the congregation.

  Alice-Leone Moats

  Should Have, Ideas, Interesting

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• One wants more time, more youth. That is it. That is all one asks for - nothing but that, a little more time. Hear it running by! Listen! In the night, in the morning, at noon, at even, rushing by, silent, stealthy, trying to hoodwink you by the fixed appearance of things that seem not to change; but never stopping. Oh, to stop it! Oh, to get it back! Oh, to dig one's toes in and refuse to be rushed headlong towards the brink!

  Mary Borden

  Running, Time, Morning

  Mary Borden (1925). “Three pilgrims and a tinker: a novel”

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• I just refuse to date actors. I've done that, and I don't want to do that anymore. It's just the stress of traveling and being away from each other so much.

  Lea Salonga

  Stress, Actors, Done

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If, however, you have richer pursuits in mind and know that no woman should be judged by how she looks - that everything she brings to the party is more important than the size of her arse - then refuse to be sucked into the never ending whirligig of self-doubting, self-hating madness that is stop-start dieting and crazy new exercise regimes.

  Arabella Weir

  Hate, Crazy, Party

  "Try it - don't diet" by Arabella Weir, www.theguardian.com. December 31, 2010.

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• Could you achieve the possible without trying? Could you achieve the impossible if you refuse to stop trying?

  Ron Kaufman

  Service Culture, Trying, Impossible

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• Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, President, Pay

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• The Andrians were the first of the islanders to refuse Themistocles' demand for money. He had put it to them that they would be unable to avoid paying, because the Athenians had the support of two powerful deities, one called Persuasion and the other Compulsion.The Andrians had replied that Athens was lucky to have two such useful gods, who were obviously responsible for her wealth and greatness; unfortunately, they themselves, in their small & inadequate land, had two utterly useless deities, who refused to leave the island and insisted on staying; and their names were Poverty and Inability.

  Herodotus

  Powerful, Greatness, Land

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• Its no secret that the Democrats and liberal media would love to take away our guns and mandate every aspect of our lives, but I refuse to let them get away with that.

  Paul Broun

  Gun, Media, Secret

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• The supreme trick of mass insanity is that it persuades you that the only abnormal person is the one who refuses to join in the madness of others, the one who tries vainly to resist. We will never understand totalitarianism if we do not understand that people rarely have the strength to be uncommon.

  Eugene Ionesco

  People, Insanity, Trying

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• The Universe operates on a basic principle of economics: everything has its
  cost. We pay to create our future, we pay for the mistakes of the past. We
  pay for every change we make . . . and we pay just as dearly if we refuse to
  change.

  Brian Herbert

  Mistake, Past, Principles

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• I think to scandalize is a right, to be scandalized is a pleasure, and those who refuse to be scandalized are moralists.

  Pier Paolo Pasolini

  Thinking, Pleasure, Moralist

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• Refuse to let your circumstances make you bitter. Do what you must to make them better.

  Nicole Kidman

  Bitter, Circumstances

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• We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation.

  Martin Luther

  Believe, Opportunity, Vaults

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• Everybody's got whatever problems they have. I refuse to let somebody's mistaken beliefs affect my life.

  O. J. Simpson

  Belief, Problem, Mistaken

  "O. J. Simpson: 10 years later". Interview with Katie Couric, www.nbcnews.com. June 18, 2004.

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• The true atheist is the one who refuses to see God's image in the face of their neighbour.

  Shane Claiborne

  Atheist, Faces, Neighbour

  Shane Claiborne (2008). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical”, p.166, Zondervan

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• The final cover for Heroes Are My Weakness feels exactly right. It reflects the cold, wintry setting of an isolated island off the coast of Maine and the feisty spirit of a heroine who refuses to give up, even when the odds are stacked against her.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Giving Up, Hero, Islands

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• Tradition is only democracy extended through time; it may be defined as an extension of the franchise. Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who are merely walking about. All democrats object to men being disqualified by accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by accident of death. Democracy tells us not to neglect a good man's opinion, even if he is our father.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Father, Mean, Men

  'Orthodoxy' (1908) ch. 4

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• With all this talk about the supposed strain in relations [with the Soviet Union], there is an inference that somehow it is our fault. But we didn't kill Russian civilians by shooting down a civilian airplane. We didn't attempt to conquer an adjacent country to ours. We didn't walk out on negotiations and refuse to give a date for when we would resume.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, War, Airplane

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• Those who refuse to support and defend the state have no claim to protection by that state. Killing an anarchist or a pacifist should not be considered "murder" in a legalistic sense. The offense against the state, if any, should be "Using deadly weapons within city limits," or "Creating a traffic hazard," or other misdemeanor.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Peace, War, Cities

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• The entire world is focusing on the compromises that are necessary from Israel's side. But people [in the world] are not focusing on the fact that the Palestinians refuse to make the necessary compromises that are required on their side for peace.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Israel, People, World

  Source: piersmorgan.blogs.cnn.com

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• The Palestinian society is split into two - those who are openly calling for Israel's destruction like Hamas, and those who are not calling openly for Israel's destruction but refuse to confront those who do. And that's the Palestinian authority. I think they're timid, they're afraid to actually stand up to these killers. And I think that they're afraid, maybe for their own sake, for their own political hides, sometimes for their own physical safety. And they don't take that necessary plunge.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Israel, Two, Safety

  Source: piersmorgan.blogs.cnn.com

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• Choosing a spouse and a choosing career: the two great decisions for which society refuses to set up institutional guidance.

  Alain de Botton

  Careers, Two, Decision

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• I refuse to engage in an intellectual battle with an unarmed man.

  Albert Einstein

  Men, Intellectual, Battle

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