quotes about Refusal
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The test of intellect is the refusal to belabor the obvious.
-- Alfred Bester -
Refusal to forgive reveals we have minimized our offense against God and we have maximized a brother's offense against us.
-- Alistair Begg -
The only condition of fighting for the right to create is faith in your own vocation, readiness to serve, and refusal to compromise.
-- Andrei Tarkovsky -
The leading characteristic of the savage state is its refusal or avoidance of industry.
-- Arthur Brisbane -
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Refusal to hope is nothing more than a decision to die.
-- Bernie Siegel -
Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.
-- Carrie Snow -
Your suffering is shaped exactly by your refusal to open.
-- David Deida -
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What else is death but the refusal any longer to grow and suffer change?
-- David MaloufSource : Karin Hansson, David Malouf (1991). “Lund Studies in English”
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Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.
-- Diana Vreeland -
There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth.
-- Dorothy Thompson -
Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise.
-- Eric Hoffer -
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The refusal to choose is a form of choice; disbelief is a form of belief.
-- Frank Barron -
The biggest obstacle to making Christ magnificent is the refusal to make yourself small.
-- James MacDonald -
True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
-- Karl Popper -
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There is no such thing as failure for an artist, unless failure is the refusal to attempt, the unwillingness to dream.
-- Laurence Overmire -
The refusal to acknowledge the scientific value of embryonic stem cell research is one more tragic misstep.
-- Lois Capps -
In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.
-- Margaret Halsey -
There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy.
-- Paul Rudnick -
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No is no negative in a woman's mouth.
-- Philip SidneySource : Sir Philip Sidney (1590). “The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia”, p.452
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Perhaps that is what love is -- the momentary or prolonged refusal to think of another person in terms of power.
-- Phyllis Rose -
The prompter the refusal, the less the disappointment.
-- Publilius Syrus -
Evil is the refusal to see one's self in others.
-- Richard Powers -
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Only the refusal to listen guarantees one against being ensnared by the truth.
-- Robert NozickSource : Robert Nozick (1974). “Anarchy, state, and utopia”
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The engineer's power was usually limited to a refusal to endorse a given plan, or to the tender of his resignation.
-- Samuel FlormanSource : Samuel Florman (2013). “The Existential Pleasures of Engineering”, p.31, Souvenir Press
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We gain power in our refusal to accept less than we deserve.
-- Amber Hollibaugh -
When all hope is lost, pig-headed refusal to acknowledge reality will always save the day.
-- Andy Ihnatko -
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Faith is a refusal to panic, come what may.
-- Martyn Lloyd-Jones