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Refusing to have an opinion is a way of having one, isn't it? -- Luigi Pirandello
Refusing dominance over others by using money is a clear sign of wisdom. -- Eraldo Banovac
Refusing to deal with numbers rarely serves the interests of the least well-off. -- Thomas Piketty
Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not. -- Phil Crosby
Refusing to teach a passage of Scripture is just as wrong as abusing it -- Francis Chan
Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life. -- Oswald Chambers
Refusing to ask for help when you need it is refusing someone the chance to be helpful. -- Ric Ocasek
Refusing to forgive is like ingesting a lethal dose of poison and hoping it kills my enemy. -- Max Lucado
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Refusing further service as a Roman soldier: I am a soldier of Christ: combat is not permitted to me. -- Martin of Tours
Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up. -- Robert Smith
Refusing what Adorno called that 'comfort in the uncomfortable' taken by the fantastic, surrealism seeks to reintegrate man into the universe. -- Michael Richardson
Lying on the ceiling. Refusing to go to school. Not opening up to me. Climbing water towers. "No, she's all right. -- Kami Garcia
I just don't think it's good for us to be run out of town. (Refusing to cancel Secretary of State visit to Moscow) -- Ronald Reagan
That's the unforgivable sin, you know.""What is?""Refusing to forgive someone.""Refusing to forgive someone is the unforgivable sin?" I asked incredulously. -- Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Living in a stupid country is living in a marsh! You are surrounded by the reptiles and the alligators! Refusing hell is the best path to eliminate the hell! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Refusing to lift sanctions and adopting tougher rhetoric toward Iran would not be partisan issues. Plenty of Democrats think that those actions are both good politics and good policy. -- Elliott Abrams
...Refusing to feel desire is the only thing more painful than failing to get what you want, and that learning not to yearn, far from preventing disappointment, ultimately guarantees it. -- Martha Beck
Manz, formerly one of Zwingli's closest allies, held that there was no biblical warrant for infant baptism. Refusing to recant his views, he was tied up and drowned in the River Limmat. -- Alister E. McGrath
My hate is general, I detest all men;Some because they are wicked and do evil,Others because they tolerate the wicked,Refusing them the active vigorous scornWhich vice should stimulate in virtuous minds. -- Moliere
Disillusionment means having no more misconceptions, false impressions, and false judgments in life; it means being free from these deceptions. Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life. -- Oswald Chambers
Refusing to gossip is a beautiful decision to make. It not only creates richer friendships but, more importantly, it makes our relationship with the Lord more authentic and believable. We honor God when we honor each other. -- Lysa TerKeurst
Pacifism in the face of war is not only irresponsible - it is immoral. Refusing to meet force with force in the name of peace will beget not peace, but further death and destruction, the very violence the pacifists seek to avoid. -- David Limbaugh
Thy Banners gleam a little, and are furled; Against thy turrets surge His phantom tow'rs; Drugged with his Opiates the nations nod, Refusing still the beauty of thine hours; And fragile is thy tenure of this world Still haunted by the monstrous ghost of God. -- George Sterling
Iraq failed for the same reasons that all conservative public policy efforts fail. Refusing to acknowledge the importance of government while relying on it to achieve your objectives causes the same kind of chaos in foreign policy that it does in matters closer to home. -- Alan Wolfe
The Apostle Paul in his letter to the Romans said that those who pass judgment on others are 'inexcusable.' The moment we judge someone else, he explained, we condemn ourselves, for none is without sin. Refusing to forgive is a grievous sin-one the Savior warned against. -- Dieter F. Uchtdorf
The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing. -- Leigh Hunt
Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
For a war correspondent to miss an invasion is like refusing a date with Lana Turner. -- Robert Capa
The process of spotting fear and refusing to obey it is the source of all true empowerment. -- Martha Beck
Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born. -- Aneurin Bevan
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. -- Plato
Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far. -- J. Cole
Learning to face reality, refusing refuge in cliches and lies, fighting to find a way out - that's what 'Rehab' is about. -- Antonia Bird
Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using. -- Samuel Daniel
The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt. -- Kenneth L. Pike
You recognize the truth because sometimes it's hard to swallow, but if you hold it in your mouth, refusing to eat it, you are going to choke. -- Monica Johnson
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
A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all. -- Betty Friedan
A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell. -- C. S. Lewis
Sometimes the very best way to deal with unpleasant things is to depict them in ways that allow people to laugh at them and destroy the power of unsayable things, rather than refusing to acknowledge them. -- Chuck Palahniuk
I never, ever have seen media this way. It's almost indescribable. Making up stories, refusing to run real stories. It's making themselves look like utter fools. There's no journalism, there is no media. There's pure, full-fledged advocacy here. -- Rush Limbaugh
A government that can at pleasure accuse, shoot, and hang men, as traitors, for the one general offence of refusing to surrender themselves and their property unreservedly to its arbitrary will, can practice any and all special and particular oppressions it pleases. -- Lysander Spooner
How can a doctor judge a woman's sanity by merely bidding her good morning and refusing to hear her pleas for release? Even the sick ones know it is useless to say anything, for the answer will be that it is their imagination. -- Nellie Bly
We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from. -- Jose Marti
Nobody has trusted the Iranian government from day one, but the idea of just refusing to have any kind of talks is dangerous in the extreme. Every administration says at least that we're trying to have talks between Israel and Palestine and solve the Middle East peace problem. -- Douglas Brinkley
Others, amounting to four novels and a mess of short stories which I did not think worth preserving, I have done my best to eliminate from the record by refusing all requests for permission to reprint them, and I hope I have done a good job of making them hard to unearth. -- Leslie Charteris
God is not accustomed to refusing a good gift to those who ask for one. Since he is good, and especially to those who are faithful to him, let us hold fast to him with all our soul, our heart, our strength, and so enjoy his light and see his glory and possess the grace of supernatural joy. -- Saint Ambrose
At a time when the GOP is playing games with the debt limit, a member of the Supreme Court is refusing to recuse himself from matters he has a financial interest in, and middle class incomes are stagnant, many want to change the subject. I don't. This was a prank, and a silly one. I'm focused on my work. -- Anthony Weiner
I protect myself by refusing to know myself. -- Floriano Martins
Humor is... despair refusing to take itself seriously. -- Arland Ussher
How clerks love refusing. It salves them for being clerks. -- Hortense Calisher
Rational argument can be defeated by refusing to argue rationally. -- Steven Weinberg
Love is a sickness full of woes, all remedies refusing. -- Samuel Daniel
We can overcome division only by refusing to be divided. -- Raymond Williams
To me the ultimate sin was refusing to listen to reason. -- Colin McGinn
The sun was a toddler insistently refusing to go to bed. -- John Green
America has defended other nation's borders while refusing to defend its own. -- Donald Trump
Historically, I believe I was correct in refusing to answer their questions. -- Pete Seeger
There is but one way of refusing To-morrow, that is to die. -- Victor Hugo
Terrorism is a crime against the mind. We win by refusing fear. -- Bruce Schneier
One says a lot in vain, refusing; The other mainly hears the "No. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I'd spent half of my life crying, the other half refusing to cry -- Jean-Claude Izzo
It's not about speed and gold medals. It's about refusing to be stopped. -- Amby Burfoot
You can make the world beautiful just by refusing to lie about it. -- pleasefindthis
Jesus is God's way of refusing to give up his dream for the world. -- Rob Bell
All hate is the result of people refusing to take responsibility for their own lives. -- Marty Rubin
That's a huge subject - a writer refusing to do publicity but writing about publicity. -- Ann Goldstein
You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering . -- Cesare Pavese
We shall not find life by refusing to let go of our precious, protected selves. -- Rowan Williams
Buzyness, however, is moral laziness because it involves refusing to live with courage and intentionality. -- Dan B. Allender
Healing cannot occur by refusing to listen to the truth, unsettling as it may be. -- Slade Combs
People who say that music is dead or hip-hop is dead are refusing to evolve. -- Erykah Badu
No matter what's going on in our lives, the victory is in refusing to quit. -- Joyce Meyer
We can rationalize anything and easily quit on ourselves. Leadership is refusing to quit on others. -- Simon Sinek
My refusing to eat flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chid for my singularity. -- Benjamin Franklin
All problems are people problems. And most people problems are people refusing to act like people. -- Solomon
To be "modern" means refusing to worry about where the benefits of progress actually come from. -- Sylvain Tesson
Those who refuse to change and to modify are refusing to be recipients of the anointing. -- Dag Heward-Mills
The challenge is to find our destiny in exactly what we are refusing to engage in. -- David Richo
What is grit? Grit is refusing to give up. It's persistence. It's making your own luck. -- Peter Diamandis
And, if there was any responsibility in refusing to obey, he was willing to accept it. -- John Bigelow
For a war correspondent to miss an invasion is like refusing a date with Lana Turner." -- Robert Capa
Retain your peace by refusing to respond to rude, judgemental, or prying people. They won't understand anyway. -- Manprit Kaur
It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot. -- Robert Walpole
You have the power to take away someone's happiness by refusing to forgive. That someone is you. -- Alan Cohen
That which exists possesses identity; he could keep it out of existence by refusing to identify it. -- Ayn Rand
I believe verbal felicity is the fruit of ardor, of diligence, and of refusing to be false. -- Marianne Moore
Reading is like permitting a man to talk a long time, and refusing you the right to answer. -- E. W. Howe
The virtue of a free man appears equally great in refusing to face difficulties as in overcoming them. -- Baruch Spinoza
Surely arrested development consists not in refusing to lose old things but in failing to add new things. -- C. S. Lewis
There are seasons when faith shows itself in taking; there are seasons when it is witnessed in refusing. -- George H Morrison
One sure way I can avoid facing myself is by refusing to look into the face of God. -- Craig D. Lounsbrough
There is more to joy than looking only for affirmation; refusing to be challenged is the only bigotry. -- Criss Jami
Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request. -- Arthur Helps
I feel myself acting like a lunatic, but I can't stop. It would be like refusing to breathe. -- Veronica Roth
The sun was a toddler insistently refusing to go to bed: It was past eight thirty and still light. -- John Green
The ideal art, the noblest of art: working with the complexities of life, refusing to simplify, to "overcome" doubt. -- Joyce Carol Oates
The essence of warriorship, or the essence of human bravery, is refusing to give up on anyone or anything. -- Chogyam Trungpa
No religious position is loyally served by refusing to consider annoying theories which may well turn out to be facts. -- Norman Lamm
Building a portfolio around index funds isnâ??t really settling for the average. Itâ??s just refusing to believe in magic. -- Bethany McLean
Please, compete in the spirit of fair play, mutual understanding and respect. And above all, please compete cleanly by refusing doping. -- Jacques Rogge
My head spins as I glance away, refusing to get sucked back into his gaze when so much is at risk. -- Emily Giffin
If I made a mistake in terms of running for president, the mistake was not in refusing to run in '91. -- Mario Cuomo
The future belongs to all who, refusing to look back at the past move ahead with the clock as it ticks. -- Odo Simon Agbo
Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others. -- Oprah Winfrey
Keeping a diary is like closing your bedroom door and refusing to come out until dinnertime: it is a declaration of self. -- Caitlin Flanagan
You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
stubbornness is a quality while use at the time of untime death of personalgrowth.by refusing it's bad influence& move on strongly. -- lity munshi
True tolerance is not a total lack of judgment. It's knowing what should be tolerated, and refusing to tolerate that which shouldn't. -- Charles Colson
By paying our other debts, we are equal with all mankind; but in refusing to pay a debt of revenge, we are superior. -- Charles Caleb Colton
True courage is not the absence of fear; it is refusing to let fear control your actions. ~ from the book "Do Hard Things -- Alex & Brett Harris
It seems the deeper, truer personality of the artist only emerges in the making of decisions... in refusing and accepting, changing and revising. -- Bridget Riley
Fearlessness may be a gift, but perhaps most precious is courage from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one's actions. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
By refusing to pay too much for an investment, you minimize the chances that your wealth will ever disappear or suddenly be destroyed. -- Benjamin Graham
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. -- Sheri S. Tepper
Your partner cannot fault you for refusing to host a perpetual-motion party or for the fact that you must sleep and will eventually die. -- Mallory Ortberg
Ghosts are those memories that are too strong to be forgotten for good, echoing across the years and refusing to be obliterated by time. -- CaitlÃn R. Kiernan
We cannot repent for someone else. But we can forgive someone else, refusing to hold hostage those whom the Lord seeks to set free! -- Neal A. Maxwell
The first chance you have to avoid a loss from a foolish loan is by refusing to make it; there is no second chance. -- Charlie Munger

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