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Quotes About Refuses

The soul is that which denies the body. For example, that which refuses to run when the body trembles, to strike when the body is angry, to drink when the body is thirsty.
~ Alain
I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Happiness is only the threshold to misery. When a friend refuses to share in joys.
~ Georg Ebers
Shame is life-dominating and stubborn. Once entrenched in your heart and mind, it is a squatter that refuses to leave.
~ Edward T. Welch
Washington still refuses to provide evidence to support the claims in 1990 that a huge Iraqi military build-up on the Saudi border justified war.
~ Noam Chomsky
We're both of us sentimental. We can't help it. Our generation still carry the old feelings. A part of us refuses to let go. The part that wants to keep believing there's something unreachable inside each of us. Something that's unique and won't transfer. But there's nothing like that, we know that now. You know that.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
No one's words can compete with this mercilessly powerful rain. The only thing that can compete with the sound of this rain, that can smash this deathlike wall of sound, is the shout of a man who refuses to stoop to this chatter, the shout of a simple spirit that knows no words.
~ Yukio Mishima
As Israel prepares to enter, my position is well known. It is one that I have taken at previous Olympics. It is wrong that the IOC refuses to have a minute's silence for Israeli athletes that were slaughtered in Munich.
~ Brian Williams
Do we not live in the shadow of the most dangerous creation the universe has ever seen? Dangerous creation… Their own mother refuses to live on the same planet with them!
~ Frank Herbert
The world of literature has everything in it, and it refuses to leave
~ Pat Conroy
I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
But my dreaming self refuses to be consoled.
~ Margaret Atwood
Devotion – a state of mind in which it refuses to occupy itself any longer with the limited and particular. By
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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
Well Ã¢â'¬Â¦ damn. You're obviously in a mood." "Am I?" There was danger in her tone. "Am I really? Why should that be exceptional? A boy may be as disagreeable as he pleases, but when a girl refuses to crap sunshine on command the world mutters darkly about her moods.
~ Scott Lynch
But now the question arises, Why has God demanded of man that which he is incapable of performing? The first answer is, Because God refuses to lower His standard to the level of our sinful infirmities.
~ Arthur W. Pink
I am the only composer who refuses films.
~ Anu Malik
President George W. Bush, in his now-rare public appearances and interviews, still refuses to acknowledge he did anything to help Iran. But it doesn't really matter what he thinks.
~ Richard Engel
As a composer, Dylan now fits comfortably alongside George Gershwin or Irving Berlin, though he grumpily refuses to wear any man's collar.
~ Douglas Brinkley
The true atheist is the one who refuses to see God's image in the face of their neighbour.
~ Shane Claiborne
The more the panic grows, the more uplifting the image of a man who refuses to bow to the terror.
~ Ernst Junger
Mimesis, it seems, works smoothly in only one direction, and life refuses conveniently to mirror the art in which it's seemingly mirrored.
~ Eva Hoffman
I love reporting stories that the Complex refuses to report.
~ Andrew Breitbart
As illiterate can refer to a cat who refuses to deliver a litter of kittens and instead delivers newspapers it has no capacity to read.
~ Gregory Maguire