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Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd. -- Annie Besant
Elegance is refusal. -- Coco Chanel
Refusal to hope is nothing more than a decision to die. -- Bernie Siegel
Refusal to accept the flow of the world is the root of all misery. -- Devdutt Pattanaik
Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself. -- Soren Kierkegaard
One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised. -- Chinua Achebe
Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal. -- Diana Vreeland
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Refusal to forgive reveals we have minimized our offense against God and we have maximized a brother's offense against us. -- Alistair Begg
When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him. -- Bayard Rustin
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? -- bell hooks
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. -- William Butler Yeats
REFUSAL, n. Denial of something desired; Refusals are graded in a descending scale of finality thus: the refusal absolute, the refusal condition, the refusal tentative and the refusal feminine. The last is called by some casuists the refusal assentive. -- Ambrose Bierce
I am your Prince and you will marry me, Humperdinck said.Buttercup whispered, I am your servant and I refuse.I am you Prince and you cannot refuse.I am your loyal servant and I just did.Refusal means death.Kill me then. -- William Goldman
I am your Prince and you will marry me," Humperdinck said. Buttercup whispered, "I am your servant and I refuse." "I am you Prince and you cannot refuse." "I am your loyal servant and I just did." "Refusal means death." "Kill me then. -- William Goldman
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope. -- Carrie Snow
There's a lot of pride involved in my refusal to believe in god. -- Orhan Pamuk
There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth. -- Dorothy Thompson
True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it. -- Karl Popper
Language is the main instrument of man's refusal to accept the world as it is. -- George Steiner
Now, what produces a want of demand A refusal to take from other countries the commodities which they produce. -- Joseph Hume
Also, perhaps children are sterner than grown-up people in their refusal to suffer, in their refusal, even, to feel at all. -- Elizabeth Bowen
Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise. -- Eric Hoffer
You are already that which you want to be, and your refusal to believe this is the only reason you do not see it. -- Neville Goddard
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. -- Edward Dahlberg
The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all. -- John Updike
Thousands of people may have been killed by hurricane Katrina and many more could die in its aftermath because of the President's refusal to heed the calls of governors for help in repairing the infrastructure in their states. -- Charles Rangel
People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth. -- Raoul Vaneigem
God never witholds from His child that which His love and wisdom call good. God's refusals are always merciful -- "severe mercies" at times but mercies all the same. God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better. -- Elisabeth Elliot
The refusal to take sides on great moral issues is itself a decision. It is a silent acquiescence to evil. The Tragedy of our time is that those who still believe in honesty lack fire and conviction, while those who believe in dishonesty are full of passionate conviction. -- Fulton J. Sheen
If brains have brought us to what we are in now, I think it is time to allow our hearts to speak. When our sons are killed by the millions, let us, mothers, only try to do good by going to the kings and emperors without any other danger than a refusal. -- Rosika Schwimmer
Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual. When you rise to the level of love, of its great beauty and power, you seek only to defeat evil systems. Individuals who happen to be caught up in that system, you love, but you seek to defeat the system. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise. -- Rumi
A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed. -- Alexander Chase
What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation. -- Albert Camus
My characters aren't losers. They're rebels. They win by their refusal to play by everyone else's rules. -- Harold Ramis
The refusal to acknowledge the scientific value of embryonic stem cell research is one more tragic misstep. -- Lois Capps
Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect. -- Thomas S. Monson
There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings. -- Dorothy Thompson
Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra. -- Fran Lebowitz
The experimental poetry thing is not my thing. It's a programme of the avant-garde: basically a refusal of the kind of poetry I write. -- Seamus Heaney
There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
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. -- Caleb Cushing
In the relations of a weak Government and a rebellious people there comes a time when every act of the authorities exasperates the masses, and every refusal to act excites their contempt. -- John Reed
The idea that the Internet favors the oppressed rather than the oppressor is marred by what I call cyber-utopianism: a naive belief in the emancipatory nature of online communication that rests on a stubborn refusal to admit its downside. -- Evgeny Morozov
Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply a refusal to deny the obvious. Unfortunately, we live in a world in which the obvious is overlooked as a matter of principle. -- Sam Harris
My own feeling is that one should refuse to participate in any activity that implements American aggression - thus tax refusal, draft refusal, avoidance of work that can be used by the agencies of militarism and repression, all seem to me essential. -- Noam Chomsky
Sochi started with the same problem as every Winter Olympics. Forget the crass commercialism, the fake amateurism, NBC's refusal to televise important events live to all its viewers. As an event, the Winter Games fail on the most basic level. They're lousy to watch. -- Alex Berenson
My failure to lay aside the sin that so easily entangles is the direct result of my refusal to die to my natural proclivity toward attaining my own freedom, meaning, value, worth, and righteousness - not believing that, by virtue of my Spirit - wrought union with Christ, everything I need, I already possess. -- Tullian Tchividjian
I understand why so many Americans are fed up with government. The 112th Congress was almost universally derided as the worst ever. It was the most polarized body since the end of Reconstruction, according to one study, and I grew embarrassed by its partisan bickering, inactivity, and refusal to address the vital challenges facing America. -- Olympia Snowe
His death certificate says he died first of pneumonia and secondly of Alzheimer's disease. They could have listed another cause of death: a refusal to properly care for dementia sufferers, even when they are violent, and an equal inability to care for their carers. My dad died of dementia, but also because dying was the easiest way to treat him. -- Rose George
Who timidly requests invites refusal. -- Seneca the Younger
Faith is the refusal to panic. -- David Lloyd-Jones
Grit is the stubborn refusal to quit. -- Jonah Lehrer
He who begs timidly courts a refusal. -- Seneca the Younger
Frivolity is the species' refusal to suffer. -- John Lahr
The prompter the refusal, the less the disappointment. -- Publilius Syrus
The unforgivable sin is the refusal to pardon. -- George Santayana
He who asks with timidity invites a refusal. -- Seneca the Younger
Faith is a refusal to panic, come what may. -- David Lloyd-Jones
...into hate, into refusal, against hope and without fear -- Lauren Oliver
Show enough regret, and your refusal will inspire gratitude. -- Mason Cooley
America's greatest sin is the refusal to delay gratification. -- M. Scott Peck
Your suffering is shaped exactly by your refusal to open. -- David Deida
Prayer is the disciplined refusal to act before God acts. -- Eugene H. Peterson
Evil is the refusal to see one's self in others. -- Richard Powers
Words signify man's refusal to accept the world as it is. -- Walter Kaufmann
Words signify man's refusal to accept the world as it is. -- Walter Kaufmann
Our refusal to fear reminds the devil that he is finished! -- Bill Johnson
The test of intellect is the refusal to belabor the obvious. -- Alfred Bester
There are no evil thoughts except one; the refusal to think. -- Ayn Rand
Suffering is basically the mind's refusal to accept reality as it is. -- Marcus Thomas
The ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face. -- Rollo May
There is only one meditation - the rigorous refusal to harbor thoughts. -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship to myself. -- Nathaniel Branden
All logical arguments can be defeated by the simple refusal to reason logically -- Steven Weinberg
Only the refusal to listen guarantees one against being ensnared by the truth. -- Robert Nozick
Sometimes heroism is nothing more than patience, curiosity, and a refusal to panic. -- Leif Enger
There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy. -- Paul Rudnick
A weapon men use against women is the refusal to take them seriously. -- David Mitchell
Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself -- Soren Kierkegaard
The biggest obstacle to making Christ magnificent is the refusal to make yourself small. -- James MacDonald
The leading characteristic of the savage state is its refusal or avoidance of industry. -- Arthur Brisbane
A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope. -- Samuel Richardson
Tout refus du langage est une mort. Any refusal of language is a death. -- Roland Barthes
In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated. -- Margaret Halsey
What else is death but the refusal any longer to grow and suffer change? -- David Malouf
Pity does not get you aid. Admiration at your refusal to give in does. -- Suzanne Collins
Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself." -- Soren Kierkegaard
It's not the cheating. It's the hunger for an alternative. The refusal to accept unhappiness. -- Tom Perrotta
When all hope is lost, pig-headed refusal to acknowledge reality will always save the day. -- Andy Ihnatko
A refusal to believe that God loves us is the unbelief which destroys the soul. -- Edward Norris Kirk
A man's rights are not violated by a private individual's refusal to deal with him. -- Ayn Rand
The refusal to choose is a form of choice; disbelief is a form of belief. -- Frank Barron
Disappointment is really just a term for our refusal to look on the bright side. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
Freedom without opportunity is a devil's gift, and the refusal to provide such opportunities is criminal -- Noam Chomsky
The roots of any evil deed can be traced to the perpetrator's refusal to experience pain. -- Keith Ablow
The refusal to be committed and the attitude of indifference can in fact never be neutral. -- John Bertram Phillips
Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards because a refusal often offends, I read somewhere. -- Terry Pratchett
The easiest rationalization for the refusal to seek the truth is the denial that truth exists. -- Sidney Hook
Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Sin is the despairing refusal to find your deepest identity in your relationship and service to God. -- Timothy Keller
Complete civil disobedience is a state of peaceful rebellion, a refusal to obey every single state-made law. -- Mahatma Gandhi
There is the refusal of style and the refusal of sentimentalism, there is this desire for clarity... -- Luc Delahaye
The absurd hero's refusal to hope becomes his singular ability to live in the present with passion. -- Albert Camus
Living with golden fantasies of an endlessly nurtured infancy can be a neurotic refusal to grow up. -- Judith Viorst
Breach of promise is no less an act of insolvency than a refusal to pay one's debt. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A refusal of nature as a model is a tradition that goes right back to Oscar Wilde. -- Todd Haynes
Scepticism and refusal of authority is at the heart of scientific endeavour. Scientific knowledge dictates economic possibilities -- David Landes
The beginning of suffering is often a refusal to look at the situation as it really is. -- Deepak Chopra
True obedience is the refusal to compromise in any regard our relationship with God, regardless of the consequences. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
There is something underwhelming about scholarly hate mail - the sad literary allusions, the refusal to use contractions. -- Brock Clarke
A resolute and wise refusal to take part in festivities will be an incentive for introspection and self-purification. -- Mahatma Gandhi
However often you may have done them a favour, if you once refuse they forget everything except your refusal. -- Pliny the Younger
For the essence of science, I would suggest, is simply the refusal to believe on the basis of hope. -- Barrington Moore, Jr.
The two pillars of 'political correctness' are, a) willful ignorance, and b) a steadfast refusal to face the truth. -- George MacDonald Fraser
Infinite Love is who we really are and who we refuse to be. This refusal is our most essential tension. -- David Deida
The principle was, death should not be entered like some snug harbor. It should be an unambiguous refusal to surrender. -- Thomas Keneally
Leaders believe that falling is not failing, but refusal to rise up after falling is the real form of failure! -- Israelmore Ayivor

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