Refused Quotes

• Let's keep this simple: We separate religion and government in this country. That means the state has no business setting aside special days for prayer or other religious observances. Thomas Jefferson knew that. He refused to issue prayer proclamations during his presidency. James Madison issued a few under pressure from Congress but later in his life wrote an essay saying he wished he hadn't. Andrew Jackson followed Jefferson's lead and refused to issue such proclamations entirely.

  

  Barry W. Lynn
  • Business
  • Government
  • Religion

• I refused to let go of what I had.

  

  Erwin McManus
  • Let Go
  • Refused

• MWA and The Author's Guild refused to accept me as a member.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Author
  • Accept
  • Member

• I've always refused to play terrorists.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Play
  • Always
  • Refused

• America stopped making vinyl and phased out the single but Germany held out and refused. Warner's never phased out vinyl in Germany. Now America imports it!

  

  Peter Hook New Order
  • America
  • Germany
  • Vinyl

• Now if you ask me, in conclusion, "Well, what, then should properly be done?" Obviously war, but I mean in regard to this issue I would say: Any way possible permission should be refused and if they go ahead and build it, the government should bomb it out of existence, evacuating it first, with no compensation to any of the property owners involved in this monstrosity.

  

  Leonard Peikoff
  • Done
  • War
  • Conclusion

• There would be nothing to frighten you if you refused to be afraid.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Afraid
  • Refused
  • Frighten

• Whatever had made the Dean take such a fancy to him, a cowardly, selfish, obstinate, ugly old fellow like him? He would never understand it. He took the piece of paper out of his pocket and looked at that too. Faith in God. God. A word he had always refused. But the Dean had said, put the word love in its place.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Love
  • Understand
  • Selfish

• It's easy to tell who the folks are that don't believe in evolution. They're the ones who have refused to participate in it.

  

  Daniel J. Solove
  • Believe
  • Evolution
  • Participate

• He once begged alms of a statue, and, when asked why he did so, replied, "To get practice in being refused."

  

  Diogenes
  • Refused
  • Statue
  • Replied

• The sky was almost black and then it started hailing. It was so beautiful and scary, I wondered about the science of storms and how sometimes it seemed that a storm wanted to break the world and how the world refused to break.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Science
  • Scary
  • Storms

• There is a lake that one day refused to flow away and threw up a dam at the place where it had before flowed out and since then this lake has always risen higher and higher. Perhaps the very act of renunciation provides us with the strength to bear it ; perhaps man will rise ever higher and higher when he no longer flows out into a God.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • God
  • Refused
  • Provides

• There was a lot of stones what the builders refused. I think I was one of the stones what many builders did refuse.

  

  Burning Spear
  • Stones
  • Builder
  • Refused

• I have steadfastly refused to make concessions that would undermine my ideals.

  

  Coco Chanel
  • Ideals
  • Refused
  • Concessions

• But this thing, whatever it was, this mistlike something, hung there inside my body like a certain kind of potential. I wanted to give it a name, but the word refused to come to mind. I’m terrible at finding the right words for things. I’m sure Tolstoy would have been able to come up with exactly the right word.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Name
  • Terrible
  • Right words

• Some persons whom I had interviewed had instantaneous “spontaneous recoveries during prayer, including one case in which other cases of such spontaneous recoveries were not known, but their doctors classified the recoveries as anomalies and refused to admit that a miracle had occurred. One doctor also told me of a dramatic, medically inexplicable healing that occurred after prayer, in which case he was an eyewitness, but the surgeon was content to label it a “spontaneous healing.” This approach to classifying data to fit existing naturalistic paradigms inevitably obscures all potential evidence in conflict with the paradigm.

  

  Craig S. Keener
  • Prayer
  • Doctors
  • Admit

• It's not my concern. It's your concern. I just keep working. I keep posing certain questions and I think there are times when people think "What happened to the Judith Butler I used to know?" or "She's not doing gender trouble. Does that mean she refuses it or she's disavowed it?" And I would say no. I have not refused or disavowed anything.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Question
  • Refused
  • Gender Trouble

• It would be difficult to discover the truth about the universe if we refused to consider anything that might be true.

  

  Richard Morris
  • Difficult
  • Anything
  • Discover

• A few years ago no hotel or restaurant in Boston refused Negro guests; now several hotels, restaurants, and especially confectionary stores, will not serve Negroes, even the best of them.

  

  Ray Stannard Baker
  • Restaurants
  • Hotels
  • Negroes

• I've always refused requests even from friends to employ a technique I know nothing about.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Friends
  • Technique
  • Refused

• I was homeless for about 8 months, I refused to live with my dad or anyone for that matter. So I stayed somewhere that had no hot water, ever, no heat, I told myself I have to be strong and get through it on my own.

  

  Eric West
  • Strong
  • Homeless
  • My Dad

• A favor is half granted, when graciously refused.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Granted
  • Favor
  • Refused

• I refused then like I do now to let anybody tie me down

  

  Ray LaMontagne
  • Refused

• I'm a 1960s flowerchild who has refused to grow up.

  

  Judy Carne
  • Child
  • Grow Up
  • Refused

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