Refusal Quotes

Pity does not get you aid. Admiration at your refusal to give in does.

The wholeness, coherence, identity, which we attribute to the depicted scene [in a photograph] is a projection, a refusal of an impoverished reality in favour of an imagined plenitude.

What keeps me level is the refusal to let the best of human aspirations die in the face of the challenges. I make a moral decision to be hopeful.

Government, like any other organism, refuses to acquiesce in its own extinction. This refusal, of course, involves the resistance to any effort to diminish its powers and prerogatives.

A resolute and wise refusal to take part in festivities will be an incentive for introspection and self-purification.

Show enough regret, and your refusal will inspire gratitude.

For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.

The test of intellect is the refusal to belabor the obvious.

A vampire is branding girls, okay?" I ignored his refusal. "Something about that just feels wrong to me." "I would hope so.

We gain power in our refusal to accept less than we deserve.

He who never says "no" is no true man.

The leading characteristic of the savage state is its refusal or avoidance of industry.

A man's rights are not violated by a private individual's refusal to deal with him.

I didn't go to drama school because, from the first refusal I then, as I said, a couple of weeks later, was offered a professional job, where I am immensely grateful to the journey.

The real reason we haven't had peace is because of a persistent refusal of the Palestinians to recognize a Jewish state in any border.

Add it all up, and some prominent Obama supporters are now saying that it paints a picture of an opposition driven, in part, by a refusal to accept a black President.

While the Jeffersonian did not flatly deny the Creator's power to perform miracles, he admired His refusal to do so.

What else is death but the refusal any longer to grow and suffer change?

She used to pride herself on her refusal to see two sides of an argument, but increasingly she accepts that issues are more ambiguous and complicated than she once thought.

An important book for our times, in which one woman's determination and refusal to consent sets an example of courage and honesty.

So far from science being irreligious, as many think, it is the neglect of science that is irreligious-it is the refusal to study the surrounding creation that is irreligious.

It's hard to see how much of our social fabric is made up of a radical refusal to love people.

Frivolity is the species' refusal to suffer.

Living with golden fantasies of an endlessly nurtured infancy can be a neurotic refusal to grow up.

There is the refusal of style and the refusal of sentimentalism, there is this desire for clarity.

It is an admirable skill to able to sweeten a refusal with civil words which atone for the favor which we are not able to grant.

Non-co-operation means refusal both to help the sinner in his sin and not to accept any help or gift from him till he has repented.

Complete civil disobedience is a state of peaceful rebellion, a refusal to obey every single state-made law.

Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual.

A really intelligent man makes an indifferent painter. For painting requires a certain blindness, a partial refusal to be aware of all the options.

Perhaps that is what love is -- the momentary or prolonged refusal to think of another person in terms of power.

Evil is the refusal to see one's self in others.

The slavery of identity comes from our refusal to face ourselves. So we must begin the exploration to self-awareness. Where do we start?

The engineer's power was usually limited to a refusal to endorse a given plan, or to the tender of his resignation.

Who timidly requests invites refusal.

I wish I could blame my failure on my integrity & refusal to play bullshit games. But the truth is I just play them really badly.

Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards because a refusal often offends, I read somewhere.

When Charity is deeply rooted in the soul it shows itself exteriorly: there is so gracious a way of refusing what we cannot give, that the refusal pleases as much as the gift.

Sin is the despairing refusal to find your deepest identity in your relationship and service to God.

It's not the cheating. It's the hunger for an alternative. The refusal to accept unhappiness.

People will rather appreciate a man who wears one suit out of the several he has got and refuse to validate the man who has put only suit he has into shape and has worn it on his back.

There is still hope that if the people refuse to give up and keep silent, no matter how long or inconsequential their voices could be at the beginning, it would still be heard and justice be served.

A sincere decision to make is to refuse to give up until the society experiences the defeat of every form of injustice and ungodliness.

If lawmakers in nations today refused to be bribed and be corrupted by some larger-than-life leaders, the people will be less insulted and molested by ungodliness and injustice.

It is those that are insulted by injustice that will refuse to be silenced.

You must refuse to succumb to every ungodliness and injustice.

Poverty is possible in every society because someone refused to speak out.

Turn down things that are in consistence with your priorities.

In every nation’s history time comes to behave like wild horses, to refuse any kind of authority which tries to eliminate your freedom!

Refusal to engage in spiritual warfare does not exempt you from being among the next casualties of war