Quotes of: Refusing Keyword

Politics is the application of Sufism to earthlife...To refuse to act politically is to starve your children, destroy civilization.

Letters: Shamcher Beorse and Carol Sill, 1974-1977

Divided we stand,' Simon thought, his stubborn biceps refusing to bulge. 'United we do push-ups.

The Lost Herondale

Forgiveness is not something you do for someone else; it's something you do for yourself. To forgive is not to condone, it is to refuse to continue feeling bad about an injury.

Life's That Way: A Memoir

I refused to believe that someone who had a voice that angelic could be bad. I knew it was illogical to think that way, but I had to believe in something good.

Love at First Plight

Every day I add to the list of things I refuse to discuss. The wiser the man, the longer the list.

Maximes et pensées : Caractères et anecdotes

Human relations, at least between the sexes, were carried on as relations between countries are now - with ambassadors, and treaties. The parties concerned met on the great occasion of the proposal. If this were refused, a state of war was declared.

Moments of Being

He didn't want to get his hopes up, but he also refused to be a pessimist about this moment. Everything could go either way.

Stays Crunchy in Milk

And imagine acquiring a new language and only learning the words to describe a wonderful world, refusing to know the words for a bleak one and in doing so linguistically shaping the world that you inhabit.

Sister

There’s a star in the sky that refuses to stay put, and Hadley realizes it’s actually a plane, that just last night, that star was them.

The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

Disappointment is really just a term for our refusal to look on the bright side.

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

Every Christian who studies history can only grieve over the atrocities that have been committed in the name of God by people who refuse to follow His ways.

A Twist of Faith

Any noble cause will encounter its share of setbacks. The strength of that cause is measured in how the men who fight for it respond. We refuse to give up, which is why we will prevail eventually.

Thieftaker

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about.

Orthodoxy

They agreed, however, that they could wish them only as much joy as they had together, refusing to be dislodged from their position as the happiest couple in the world, by anyone.

The Pemberley Chronicles

Chrystle? I'm back!" I refused to say that I was home because Cassie was my home. But I'd lost that, and her, forever, so I'd never truly be home again.

The Perfect Game

Till it does come, you know, we women never mean to have anybody. It is a thing of course among us, that every man is refused, till he offers.

Persuasion

My heart had a crush on him from the moment we met, but it was faint, and the rest of me stubbornly refused to play along.

Perverse Wonderland

A blanket could be used to put out a fire. Unless that fire is in your heart, and you simply refuse to give up and let the issue, and your body, rest.


Rick Bet Blank

Pain can be endured and defeated only if it is embraced. Denied or feared, it grows in perception if not in reality. The best response to terror is righteous anger, confidence in ultimate justice, a refusal to be intimidated.

Velocity

Nothing limits intelligence more than ignorance; nothing fosters ignorance more than one's own opinions; nothing strengthens opinions more than refusing to look at reality.

The Visitor

One cannot have any respect or regard for men who take the position of the reformer and then refuse to see the logical consequences of that position, let alone following them out in action.

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