Refuse Quotes
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If wisdom were offered me with the proviso that I should keep it shut up and refrain from declaring it, I should refuse. There's no delight in owning anything unshared.
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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.
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But if I must be alone, I refuse to be alone as if it were something weak and distasteful, like convalescence.
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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.
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It's often only in the lies we refuse to speak that any truth can be heard at all.
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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.
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The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience.
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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.
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We even refuse to be our true self with God- and then wonder why we lack intimacy with him.
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One great mistake made by intelligent people is to refuse to believe that the world is as stupid as it is.
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If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that I should keep it close and not communicate it, I would refuse the gift.
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We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings.
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There are some things that it is better to begin than to refuse, even though the end may be dark.
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Can't react every time you're insulted. Free people absorb destructive things and refuse to be destroyed...
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I refuse the oration of all churches. I ask a prayer of all souls. I believe in God.
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I've never said anything disparaging about Wally Backman and I refuse to do so now.
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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.
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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.
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I have a personality defect where I refuse to see myself as an underdog.
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I refuse to put the unnecessary strain of learning English upon my sisters for the sake of false pride or questionable social advantage.
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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.
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Don't let your eyes refuse to seeDon't let your ears refuse to hear
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We cannot transform what we refuse to engage.
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I refuse to put myself into a situation in which I have to face some kind of "I'm losing it" kind of thing. I'm not "losing it"; it's changed. What it is is changing.
