Refuse Quotes
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if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him. If she can hesitate as to `Yes,' she ought to say `No' directly. It is not a state to be safely entered into with doubtful feelings, with half a heart.
Jane Austen -
Perhaps the most important principle for the good algorithm designer is to refuse to be content.
Alfred Aho
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I really want the pope to come into the pulpit and tell Filipinos to their faces what's wrong with them, because we refuse to listen to ourselves.
Carlos Celdran -
The riddle of Mozart is precisely that "the man" refuses to be a key for solving it. In death, as in life, he conceals himself behind his work.
Wolfgang Hildesheimer -
It's often only in the lies we refuse to speak that any truth can be heard at all.
Karen Marie Moning -
They who refuse education to a black man would turn the South into a vast poorhouse, and labor into a pendulum, necessity vibrating between poverty and indolence.
Henry Ward Beecher -
He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
Seneca the Younger -
The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience.
Flannery O'Connor
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So this estate is given each of us to determine whether or not we will merit glory and honor "for ever and ever," or whether we will rebel and refuse or be indifferent and not comply with the conditions and the laws and the ordinances provided by a merciful Father for our guidance through life and our protection and our salvation and thereby, by so doing, deny ourselves the fabulous gift and blessing of eternal life. This life, then, is a time of "sifting," a time when the "wheat" is separated from the "chaff," a time of deciding who is who and where we will live after we die.
ElRay L. Christiansen -
We even refuse to be our true self with God- and then wonder why we lack intimacy with him.
Brennan Manning -
I refuse the oration of all churches. I ask a prayer of all souls. I believe in God.
Victor Hugo -
All idealists imagine that the causes they serve are fundamentally better than any other causes in the world, and they refuse to believe that if their cause is to flourish at all it requires precisely the same foul-smelling manure that is necessary to all other human undertakings.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
I've never said anything disparaging about Wally Backman and I refuse to do so now.
Bob Melvin -
I have little compassion for people in trailer parks who refuse to move after getting tornado warnings. How hard is it for them to relocate? Their houses have wheels.
Carlos Mencia
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I have a personality defect where I refuse to see myself as an underdog.
Mindy Kaling -
We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Don't let your eyes refuse to seeDon't let your ears refuse to hear
Ray LaMontagne -
I refuse to put the unnecessary strain of learning English upon my sisters for the sake of false pride or questionable social advantage.
Mahatma Gandhi -
We cannot transform what we refuse to engage.
Elizabeth Kucinich -
Can't react every time you're insulted. Free people absorb destructive things and refuse to be destroyed...
Hillary Clinton
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There are those who collect the refuse of the public streets, but in order to be received into the band it is necessary to have been born one of the Hereditary Confederacy of Superfluity Removers and Abandoned Oddment Gatherers.
Ernest Bramah -
People who, out of an inborn moderation, leave every glass standing only half-emptied refuse to admit that everything in the world has its sediments and dregs.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
There are some things that it is better to begin than to refuse, even though the end may be dark.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
One great mistake made by intelligent people is to refuse to believe that the world is as stupid as it is.
Claudine Guerin de Tencin