Quotes About Refusal

It could be oddly dispiriting, the blank refusal of humankind to even attempt to function responsibly.

It could be oddly dispiriting, the blank refusal of humankind to even attempt to function responsibly. And

In another illustration of reactance, children (and adults too) may refuse all proposals about how to spend the day, even the one they prefer, because they do not want to feel imposed upon.

Solzhenitsyn described this: It would be hard to identify the exact source of that inner intuition, not founded on rational argument, which prompted our refusal to enter the NKVD schools… People can shout at you from all sides: 'You must!' And your own head can be saying also: 'You must!' But inside your breast there is a sense of revulsion, repudiation. I don't want to. It makes me feel sick. Do what you want without me; I want no part of it.

As Epley and Dunning had found, people really are open to information that will predict the behavior of others, but they refuse to adjust their self-assessments.

I'm so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything

I'm so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything

This guy's a drag." I spoke under my breath. "He sure is." "Know what I suggest?" "Yep. And the answer's no. I'm not going to kill him." "Oh, you're no fun.

He gripped me tighter around the waist and pulled me to him. "No," he said into my ear. "No, Lucy. That's not the way it's going to be.

Blood will separate, if need be, but its call is primordial, and it won't be refused.

la disperazione è il peccato più grave, perché è il rifiuto a trarre profitto dalle infecondità dell'insuccesso

why be an average person? All the great achievements of history have been made by strong individuals who refused to consult statistics or to listen to those who could prove convincingly that what they wanted to do, and in fact ultimately did do, was completely impossible

Your love for her belongs to you. It's yours. Even if she refuses it, she cannot change it. She isn't benefiting from it, thats all. What you give, Momo, is yours forever. What you keep is lost for all time!"-Monsieur Ibrahim

No!" Jimmy protested.

Ade wanted to leave, to become a spirit again, free in the captivity of freedom. I wanted the liberty of limitations, to have to find or create new roads from this one which is so hungry, this road of our refusal to be.

The experimental poetry thing is not my thing. It's a programme of the avant-garde: basically a refusal of the kind of poetry I write.

Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.

America is the only developed nation that has a 2,000-mile border with a developing nation, and the government's refusal to control that border is why there are an estimated 460,000 illegal immigrants in Arizona and why the nation, sensibly insisting on first things first, resists 'comprehensive' immigration reform.

Now, what produces a want of demand? A refusal to take from other countries the commodities which they produce.

Like so many of you, I am deeply distressed both by the hateful violence in Charlottesville and by President Trump's refusal to clearly denounce it. Nobody with any empathy for the plight of people of color in this country could respond the way he did.

An individual's refusal to carry out the criminal acts of his government sets the stage, in the most effective way possible, for the attempt to demonstrate the criminal nature of these acts.

I see 'Grace' as an affectionate refusal of things that just aren't true. With all our power and money and influence, we still can't raise up high over people's consciousness.

If anything has cheapened or trivialized the process by which Trump was impeached, it was House Republicans' refusal to treat the proceedings with the seriousness the Constitution demands.

The refusal to snitch out of a pathological hatred for police is nothing new.