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In lang, lang days o' simmer, When the clear and cloudless sky Refuses ae weep drap o' rain To Nature parched and dry, The genial night, wi' balmy breath, Gars verdue, spring anew, An' ilka blade o' grass Keps its ain drap o' dew. -- James Ballantine
He who refuses to learn deserves extinction. -- Rabbi Hillel
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. -- Napoleon Hill
Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting. -- Napoleon Hill
A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim. -- Maya Angelou
If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves. -- Joseph Stalin
The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions. -- James A. Baldwin
Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is. -- Thomas Carlyle
There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed. -- Gail Sheehy
I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea. -- H. G. Wells
British fashion is self confident and fearless. It refuses to bow to commerce, thus generating a constant flow of new ideas whilst drawing in British heritage. -- Alexander McQueen
The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin. -- Thomas Huxley
Like some kind of particularly tenacious vampire the short story refuses to die, and seems at this point in time to be a wonderful length for our generation. -- Neil Gaiman
The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the regular armies and remains a freelance. -- Albert Camus
In my career, I have played a gangster, an ex cop, a journalist and a film director. Yet, the label of a serial kisser refuses to leave me. -- Emraan Hashmi
If Willie Nelson had been Rosa Parks, there never would have been a civil rights movement in this country, because he refuses to leave the back of the bus. -- Kinky Friedman
That is why if Lebanon concludes a peace agreement with Israel and brings that accord to the Parliament our deputies will reject it; Hezbollah refuses any conciliation with Israel in principle. -- Hassan Nasrallah
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 that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it. -- Simon Wiesenthal
Our national media refuses to report that even the Supreme Court did not say marriage was a human right in all cases nor did it say that the heterosexual definition violated anyone's right or that the heterosexual definition of marriage was unconstitutional. -- Stockwell Day
There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral. -- Ida Tarbell
When it aims to express a love of the world it refuses to conceal the many reasons why the world is hard to love, though we must love it because we have no other, and to fail to love it is not to exist at all. -- Mark Van Doren
Torture is an impermissible evil. Except under two circumstances. The first is the ticking time bomb. An innocent's life is at stake. The bad guy you have captured possesses information that could save this life. He refuses to divulge. In such a case, the choice is easy. -- Charles Krauthammer
The core issue here is that the Israeli government refuses to commit to terms of reference for the negotiations that are based on international law and United Nations resolutions, and that it frantically continues to intensify building of settlements on the territory of the State of Palestine. -- Mahmoud Abbas
Insurgencies are easy to make and hard to stop. Only a few ingredients need to combine to create an insurgency; like oxygen and fire, they're very common and mix all too often. The recipe is, simply, a legitimate grievance against a state, a state that refuses to compromise, a quorum of angry people, and access to weapons. -- Richard Engel
There is a scene in Richard Attenborough's biopic where Gandhi argues with his wife because she refuses to clean their latrine. She says it is the work of untouchables; he tells her there is no such thing. Gandhi's tactics of encouraging brotherly love across caste boundaries and urging Indians to clean their own latrines had failed miserably. -- Rose George
As a real person, he wouldn't last a minute, would he? But drama is about imperfection. And we've moved away from the aspirational hero. We got tired of it, it was dull. If I was House's friend, I would hate it. How he so resolutely refuses to be happy or take the kind-hearted road. But we don't always like morally good people, do we? -- Hugh Laurie
Courage refuses frontiers! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
An ocean refuses no river. -- Sheila Chandra
The present day composer refuses to die. -- Edgard Varese
He who refuses to learn deserves extinction. -- Rabbi Hillel
A wise man never refuses anything to necessity. -- Publilius Syrus
The heart holds answers the brain refuses to see. -- Rob Kall
A person who refuses to risk change fails to grow. -- John C. Maxwell
The muses crown virtue when fortune refuses to do it. -- Elizabeth Montagu
Like desire, language disrupts, refuses to be contained within boundaries. -- bell hooks
Consider what each soil will bear, and what each refuses -- Virgil
Yet, like the sea and the gallows, London refuses nobody. -- Peter Ackroyd
When someone refuses listening to reason disaster will surely follow. -- Ken Poirot
Optimism refuses to believe that the road ends without options. -- Robert H. Schuller
A person who refuses to give up will always succeed eventually. -- Joyce Meyer
Truth refuses to be subservient to either politics or the market. -- Gao Xingjian
He who tenders doubtful safety to those in trouble refuses it. -- Seneca the Younger
He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense. -- John McCarthy
A man cannot have a pure mind who refuses apple dumplings. -- Charles Lamb
Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is. -- Albert Camus
Whoever stubbornly refuses to accept criticism will suddenly be broken beyond repair. -- Solomon
Even when dead, the hog largely refuses to submit to the machine, -- Sigfried Giedion
A defeated argument that refuses to be obliterated can remain very alive. -- Amartya Sen
to that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent. -- Audre Lorde
The human heart refuses To believe in a universe Without a purpose. -- Immanuel Kant
The soul refuses limits and always affirms an optimism, never a pessimism. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whoever refuses to remember the inhumanity is prone to new risks of infection. -- Richard von Weizsaecker
I've still got a brilliant head of hair, which refuses to lay down. -- Rod Stewart
The world of literature has everything in it, and it refuses to leave -- Pat Conroy
I've still got a brilliant head of hair, which refuses to lay down! -- Rod Stewart
You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go. -- Bill Watterson
We are a nation that seeks out solutions and refuses to ignore challenges. -- Chris Chocola
A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Better to be blinded by love than hate; one forgives and the other refuses. -- T.F. Hodge
The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it. -- Simon Wiesenthal
She taught you how to be a person who refuses anything but the meaningful. -- Michael Silverblatt
I'm not a writer who refuses to talk about a book until I've finished. -- Markus Zusak
I think any movie star who refuses autographs has a hell of a nerve -- Alan Ladd
The morose one refuses to smile even when he has just had his teeth cleaned. -- Mason Cooley
Happiness is only the threshold to misery. When a friend refuses to share in joys. -- Georg Ebers
A man's passion for the mountain is, above all, his childhood which refuses to die. -- Francois Mauriac
For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts. -- Gertrude Stein
Words are worth little when the heart refuses to hear. Therefore, judge us by our works. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
Only when someone refuses to do certain things will he be capable of doing great things. -- Mencius
Let this serve as an axiom to every lover: A woman who refuses lunch refuses everything. -- Enid Bagnold
A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it. -- Norman Vincent Peale
The world, unfortunately, rarely matches our hopes and consistently refuses to behave in a reasonable manner. -- Stephen Jay Gould
A lack of generosity refuses to acknowledge that your assets are not really yours, but God's. -- Timothy Keller
Society is defined not only by what it creates, but by what it refuses to destroy. -- John C. Sawhill
Success will smile at the man who refuses to lie down at the corridor of failure. -- Mike Murdock
The winner ain't the one with the fastest car. It's the one who refuses to lose. -- Dale Earnhardt, Jr.
A man who refuses light will remain in the darkness even by the side of light! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
God loves you just the way you are, but he refuses to leave you that way. -- Max Lucado
A society that refuses to strive for superfluities is likely to end up lacking in necessities. -- Eric Hoffer
Nature still obstinately refuses to co-operate by making the rich people innately superior to the poor people. -- Beatrice Webb
How true is it that humanity refuses compromise during prosperity, and reaches out for arbitration when weak. -- Jean Sasson
A mind that is charmed by false appearances refuses better things. [Lat., Acclinis falsis animus meliora recusat.] -- Horace
Many new technologies come with a promise to change the world, but the world refuses to cooperate. -- Henry Petroski
The eye of judgment sees at a distance what it refuses to see in it's own reflection. -- T.F. Hodge
It's always about a character that I become obsessed with and who refuses to leave me alone. -- Ruba Nadda
You might be a redneck if Santa Claus refuses to let your kids sit in his lap. -- Jeff Foxworthy
Anyone who refuses to speak out off campus does not deserve to be listened to on campus. -- Theodore Hesburgh
Love that seeks to do men good is cowardice when it refuses to prevent them from doing wrong. -- Shailer Mathews
Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family. -- Townsend Harris
The climate stubbornly refuses to co-operate with computer models and the writers of alarmist popular articles and books. -- Ian Plimer
The 'We Have Overcome' generation has run out of intellectual creativity but refuses to leave the political stage. -- Manning Marable
The true atheist is the one who refuses to see God's image in the face of their neighbour. -- Shane Claiborne
The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act. -- Bernard DeVoto
Goths do not hate the world. They just learned to accept the world that refuses to understand them. -- enna snow
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed. -- William James
The real failure is not the one who falls down, it's the one who refuses to get up. -- Habeeb Akande
He has resisted Temptation for Centuries, A stone cold warrior whose frozen heart refuses to thaw- Until Her.. -- Tina St. John
If the person at the wheel refuses to ask for directions, it is time for a new driver. -- Jennifer Granholm
Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfillment of animal desires. -- Alexander Graham Bell
It is a universal principle that whenever one refuses to use his God-given powers, these powers decay and perish. -- Ellen G. White
That clergyman soon becomes an object of contempt who being often asked out to dinner never refuses to go. -- St. Jerome
A good marriage (if any there be) refuses the conditions of love and endeavors to present those of amity. -- Michel de Montaigne
Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty. -- Woodrow Wilson
The leader who refuses to move until the fear is gone will never move. Consequently, he will never lead. -- Andy Stanley
Alecto isn't a person! He's just something that society made and then threw away, a memory that refuses to die. -- Rebecca McNutt
Choosing a spouse and a choosing career: the two great decisions for which society refuses to set up institutional guidance. -- Alain de Botton
There is no such thing as an insignificant life, only the insignificance of mind that refuses to grasp the implications. -- Laurence Overmire
YouTube is a problem. It has very big traffic, but it refuses to contribute to the weight of that traffic. -- Xavier Niel
What literature brings to our times is always the fact that literature refuses to bring any simple or easy answers. -- Sjon
A man can fall many times in life, but he's never a failure until he refuses to get back up. -- Evel Knievel
When a doctor refuses money, even the most ethical ones, you usually start driving a good bargain with the undertaker. -- Sue Sanders
I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power. -- Arthur C. Clarke
I'm not one of those artists who refuses to play their hits. I find that ridiculous. Hits are a blessing. -- Lenny Kravitz
One of the greatest failures of every generation is that it refuses to read the minutes of the last meeting. -- David A. Noebel
There's a tear in his eye that refuses to fall. If it would land on me, that would say it all. -- Tim McGraw
He who refuses praise the first time that it is offered does so because he would hear it a second time. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
When every young man refuses to go to war, you will have peace. You do not defend any idea with violence. -- Jane Roberts
The Supreme Court refuses to abandon its convoluted Lemon test. The Lemon test has created havoc, misunderstanding, and hostility toward religion. -- Mathew Staver
It is precisely through the indeterminate nature of history that resistance becomes possible and politics refuses any guarantees and remains open. -- Henry Giroux

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