Never force you way into a heart that refuses to make room for your presence. Respect your self-worth at all times.
There's an old saying about those who cannot remember the past being condemned to repeat it. But those of us who refuse to forget the past are condemned to relive it.
We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.
There are no shadows in darkness. Shadows are created by light, and only exist in the presence of light. Refusing to acknowledge our shadow leads us to deny the presence of light in us.
The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new ones.
I refuse the compliment that I think like a man, thought has no sex, one either thinks or one does not.
Forgiving others simply means that you refuse to be a prisoner of a past that you can't change, and shackled to decisions that you didn't make.
When the Lord makes it clear you're to follow Him in this new direction, focus fully on Him and refuse to be distracted by comparisons with others.
Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.
Tradition is the code that keeps change in lock. If you refuse change, you are likely to rust and guess the cause; that long held way of doing things.
Some guy refuses to fight and we call that the sin, but he's standing up for what he believes in and that seems pretty damned American to me.
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset.
There are some songs that don't belong to The Animals that I refuse to give in to and not do. I enjoy singing other people's songs, you know. That's why they're written in the first place.
Oh, I know that she's disgusted, cause she's feeling so abused. She gets tired of the lust, but it's so hard to refuse.
I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tuna Fish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock.
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.
When you refuse to entertain the possibility of a solution because you “know” it will not work, then you have successfully strengthened the problem at hand
There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed.
I refuse to do anything that would help Republicans win a Senate seat in New York, and give the Senate majority to the Republicans.
I'm not talented or gifted. I'm a committed, meticulous workaholic. The only reason I succeed is because I refuse to fail.
My forebears refused to cut the sugar cane for plantation owners, and I am recognisably a product of that background.
