Quotes About Refusal

There is something underwhelming about scholarly hate mail - the sad literary allusions, the refusal to use contractions.

For the essence of science, I would suggest, is simply the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.

When we try to imagine a chaos we fail. ... In its very fiber the mind is an order and refuses to build a chaos.

the simplicity of many of Bush's pronouncements is often misinterpreted as evidence that he has penetrated to the core of a complex issue, when in fact exactly the opposite is true: They often mark his refusal even to consider complexity. And that's particularly troubling in a world where the challenges America faces are often quite complex and require rigorous, sustained, disciplined analysis.

Love reveals its insanity by its refusal to acknowledge the inherent NORMALITY of the loved one

La respuesta al terrorismo, personal y global, se encuentra en su propio lugar de origen: el corazón asustado. El terrorismo terminará cuando nos neguemos a vivir aterrorizados.

Nah you didn't

You are disobedient, you are trying to keep some part of your life under your own control. That is what is preventing you from listening to Christ and believing in his grace. You cannot hear Christ because you are willfully disobedient. Somewhere in your heart you are refusing to listen to his call. Your difficult is your sins.

I had seen my refusal as not wanting to impose; they saw my change as giving them an opportunity to help.

understood that in the business environment it was considered a gesture of civilization to offer the guest something to drink without booze in it, and probably a hostile act to refuse it, so he said, "Seltzer, yeah, sounds good.

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

Adultery itself in its principle is many times nothing but a curious inquisition after, and envy of another man's enclosed pleasures: and there have been many who refused fairer objects that they might ravish an enclosed woman from her retirement and single possessor.

No soup for you

That would be the death of anyone - to recognize false hopes with a certainty. One mustn't know that. If it is offered, refuse!

So while my refusal to keep laughing or making you comfortable may seem like a real fucking downer, the truth is that this is what optimism looks like. Naming what is happening to us, telling the truth about it--as ugly and uncomfortable as it can be--means that we want to change. That we know it is not inevitable.

He recognized that the systemic malaise that caused it was a consequence in part of his own refusal over the years to limit his courtship of the finest wines, foods, and cigars.

I didn't want to look at him through rose-colored glasses, knowing all along that what I was seeing could very well be untrue, and yet when I was with him, I welcomed my refusal to search for and find flaws. The irony was I was often sickened by the way my girlfriends made excuses for their husbands, even the way I sometimes made excuses for Ronnie. Of course, we were really making excuses for ourselves, finding ways not to look like fools.

Churchill refused the King's third offer of the Order of the Garter, supposedly saying afterwards, 'Why should I accept the Order of the Garter from His Majesty when the people have just given me the order of the boot?

If i understand correctly, he said, I'm to fight the duel because, if I refuse, I'll be hanged. If I fight I'm to allow my opponant to injure me because if i wound him I'll be put to the rack. What charming alternatives. Maybe I should save you the bother? I'll thump my head against the pine tree and render myself helpless. Will that grant you satisfaction? - 273

Una volta, un sovrano ha offeso l'orgoglio di uno strigo proponendogli un lavoro che non si addiceva al nostro onore e al nostro codice. Come se non bastasse, non prendendo atto del suo gentile rifiuto, voleva impedirgli di lasciare il castello. Tutti coloro che poi hanno commentato l'episodio hanno convenuto nell'affermare che non era stata la migliore delle sue idee.

You can't ask me to explain the lyrics because I won't do it.

I don't want a tech. I don't want to get one.

Ask me for my shirt off my back, I'll give it to you. Tell me? Not a chance.