Quotes of: Refusing Keyword

Love is suffering only when one refuses to love.

Marty Rubin

I refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences.

Ella Maillart

I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

Lillian Hellman

A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.

Samuel Richardson

I refused to beat my head against stone, of course.

Herbert Lom

If the person at the wheel refuses to ask for directions, it is time for a new driver.

Jennifer Granholm

I refused to wear make-up on TV. I wanted my music to be heard.

Suzi Quatro

I refused David Letterman's proposal of marriage for obvious reasons, but thanks for asking.

Teri Garr

Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot.

Robert Walpole

Nothing is perfect unless imperfection is refused to be noticed.

Life

The world cannot evolve if girls refuse to become women.

Marianne Williamson

Why don't we talk about your love life? Clary countered. "What about you and Alec?" "Alec refuses to acknowledge that we have a relationship, and so I refuse to acknowledge him. He sent me a fire message asking for a favor the other day. It was addre...

City of Glass

America comes with both rights and responsibilities. You have, for example, the right to free speech, but you have the responsibility to not yell 'fire' in a crowded theater. If you don't live up to that responsibility, you face certain consequences....

Cowards: What Politicians, Radicals, and the Media Refuse to Say

We could say that the human race is a great coauthorship in which we are collaborating with God and nature in the making of ourselves and one another. From this there is no escape. We may collaborate either well or poorly or we may refuse to collabor...

The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

The Andrians were the first of the islanders to refuse Themistocles' demand for money. He had put it to them that they would be unable to avoid paying, because the Athenians had the support of two powerful deities, one called Persuasion and the other...

The Histories

You’ll learn, as you get older, that rules are made to be broken. Be bold enough to live life on your terms, and never, ever apologize for it. Go against the grain, refuse to conform, take the road less traveled instead of the well-beaten path. Lau...

The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass

Women are often belittled for trying to resurrect these men and bring them back to life and to love. They are in a world that would be even more alienated and violent if caring women did not do the work of teaching men who have lost touch with themse...

All About Love: New Visions

...compulsive eating is basically a refusal to be fully alive. No matter what we weigh, those of us who are compulsive eaters have anorexia of the soul. We refuse to take in what sustains us. We live lives of deprivation. And when we can't stand it a...

Women, Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything

Mateus: [at practice, Rudy remains on the ground after being pummeled on a block by Mateus] Hey, little buddy, you all right? Coach Yonto: Ruettiger, get out! Rudy: [springs up, refusing to be taken out] I can do it, coach! Rudy: [play is run again, ...

Rudy

I sleep all day. Noises flit around the house- garbage truck in the alley, rain, tree rapping against the bedroom window. I sleep. I inhabit sleep firmly, willing it, wielding it, pushing away dreams, refusing, refusing. Sleep is my lover now, my for...

Audrey Niffenegger