Refuse Quotes - page 2

All that a pacifist can undertake -- but it is a very great deal -- is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate. (Vera Brittain)
Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again. View quote
Evelyn Underhill
Give all to love Obey thy heart Friends, kindred, days, Estate, good fame, Plans, credit, and the Muse, Nothing refuse. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you refuse to study anatomy, the arts of drawing and perspective, the mathematics of aesthetics, and the science of color, let me tell you that this is more a sign of laziness than of genius. View quote
Salvador Dalí
[Art] can speak its own language only as long as the images are alive which refuse and refute the established order. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
On his deathbed Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuse are for all -- the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved. View quote
Mark Twain
We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English. View quote
Winston Churchill
Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people. View quote
Eleanor Roosevelt
I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war. View quote
Albert Einstein
What moral obligation do you have to those who willfully refuse to open their eyes and deem you mad for seeing? (Norman Spinrad)
Avoid men who call you Baby, and women who have no friends, and dogs that scratch at their bellies and refuse to lie down at your feet. Wear dark glasses; bathe with lavender oil and cool fresh water. Seek shelter from the sun at noon. View quote
Alice Hoffman
Actually, today I had to defend the Bush Administration in France again. They refuse to accept, because of their political ideology, that he has actually done more than any American President for Africa. But it's empirically so. View quote
Bob Geldof
We continue to subsidize highways and aviation, but when it comes to our passenger rail system, we refuse to provide the money Amtrak needs to survive. View quote
Corrine Brown
Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you or your family, or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus. View quote
Jessica Savitch
If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies. View quote
Kathryn Bigelow
An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it. View quote
Orlando Aloysius Battista
The left is entering a new phase of ideological agitation no longer trying to win the debate but stopping debate altogether, banishing from public discourse any and all opposition. The proper word for that attitude is totalitarian. It declares certain controversies over and visits serious consequences from social ostracism to vocational defenestration upon those who refuse to be silenced. View quote
Charles Krauthammer
Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations. View quote
Kofi Annan
LIVE. If you live, god will live with you. If you refuse to run his risks, he'll retreat to that distant heaven and be merely a subject for philosophical speculation. View quote
Paulo Coelho
The myriad past, it enters us and disappears. Except that within it, somewhere, like diamonds, exist the fragments that refuse to be consumed. Sifting through, if one dares, and collecting them, one discovers the true design. (James Salter)
All those things at which thou wishest to arrive by a circuitous road, thou canst have now, if thou dost not refuse them to thyself. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
Mathematics is of two kinds, Rigorous and Physical. The former is Narrow: the latter Bold and Broad. To have to stop to formulate rigorous demonstrations would put a stop to most physico-mathematical inquiries. Am I to refuse to eat because I do not fully understand the mechanism of digestion? View quote
Oliver Heaviside
I am a neutral country. I am Switzerland. I refuse to be affected by territorial disputes between mythical creatures. View quote
Stephenie Meyer
Men always seem to refuse to admit they are sick until they're sick enough to make twice as much work for women. Then they claim they're well too soon, with the same result. View quote
Robert Jordan