Refusal Quotes
The principle was, death should not be entered like some snug harbor. It should be an unambiguous refusal to surrender.
Don't boast about your hardheartedness or refusal to shed tears. Instead, pray that God will give you a tender heart which will sympathize with others.
I hated myself and the world because I had failed to face and accept the limitations of my self and of life. In literature this refusal is called romanticism; in psychology, neurosis.
Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy?
Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise.
There is no such thing as failure for an artist, unless failure is the refusal to attempt, the unwillingness to dream.
I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all made what Dante calls the Great Refusal. The shallowest people on the ridge of the earth.
It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by some general order, and the denial of the right of petition.
Your believing or not believing in karma has no effect on its existence, nor on its consequences to you. Just as a refusal to believe in the ocean would not prevent you from drowning.
You can understand why a system would seek information - but why in hell does it offer information? Why do we strive to be understood? Why is a refusal to accept communication so painful?
I've always admired your rather formidable will, your refusal to back away from difficulties, but sometimes strength isn't about perseverance. Sometimes it's about knowing when to quit.
Now, what produces a want of demand A refusal to take from other countries the commodities which they produce.
The refusal to acknowledge the scientific value of embryonic stem cell research is one more tragic misstep.
The work of art is born of the intelligence's refusal to reason the concrete. It marks the triumph of the carnal.
Rebellion, in man, is the refusal to be treated as an object and to be reduced to simple historical terms. It is the affirmation of a nature common to all men, which eludes the world of power.
Sin is a refusal to grow, a refusal to love, a refusal to get committed, to be concerned, and to take risks.
As long as this deliberate refusal to understand things from above, even where such understanding is possible, continues, it is idle to talk of any final victory over materialism.
The beginning of suffering is often a refusal to look at the situation as it really is.
To joke in the face of danger is the supreme politeness, a delicate refusal to cast oneself as a tragic hero.
Intellectual sodomy, which comes from the refusal to be simple about plain matters, is as gross and abundant today as sexual perversion and they are nowise different from one another.
Also, perhaps children are sterner than grown-up people in their refusal to suffer, in their refusal, even, to feel at all.
What has changed is that when I photographed, most people that I photographed didn't have the right of refusal on their work. It would take a Marilyn Monroe at her height to be able to dictate that.
The refusal of the British and Russian peoples to accept what appeared to be inevitable defeat was the great factor in the salvage of our civilization.
The refusal to be committed and the attitude of indifference can in fact never be neutral.
In this age, the mere example of nonconformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service.
This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.
Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.
And there’s also ‘To him that hath shall be given.’ After all, you must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can’t give. Perhaps your own passion temporarily destroys the capacity.
The nobility of our calling will always be rooted in two commitments difficult to observe: refusal to lie about what we know, and resistance to oppression.
When all hope is lost, pig-headed refusal to acknowledge reality will always save the day.
There is something underwhelming about scholarly hate mail - the sad literary allusions, the refusal to use contractions.
Scepticism and refusal of authority is at the heart of scientific endeavour. Scientific knowledge dictates economic possibilities
There are absolute atheists ... Absolute atheism is in no way a mere absence of belief in God. It is rather a refusal of God, a fight against God, a challenge to God.
