Quotes About Refusal

Repudian las cosas líricas porque obligan a pensamientos muy altos y a gestos demasiado dignos.

So?" Alderheart refused to understand.

Not if StarClan themselves came and begged me

In general, my children refused to eat anything that hadn't danced on TV.

Io credo che il suo rifiuto di lavarle fosse un segnale. Voleva che qualcuno lo notasse per spiegare poi cosa è davvero puro e cosa è impuro. Era una persona concreta, aveva bisogno di esempi pratici per spiegare pensieri profondi. [La faccia delle nuvole]

Life gives me good advice, but sometimes I refuse to take it.

Prayer is a refusal to live as an outsider to my God and my own soul.

Everyone wants to be happy, to be blessed. Too many people are willfully refusing to pay attention to the One who wills our happiness and ignorantly supposing that the Christian way is a harder way to get what they want than doing it on their own. They are wrong. God's ways and God's presence are where we experience the happiness that lasts.

The logic of pessimism moves through three refusals: a no-saying to the worst (refusal of the world-for-us, or Schopenhauer's tears); a yes-saying to the worst (refusal of the world-in-itself, or Nietzsche's laughter); and a no-saying to the for-us and the in-itself (a double refusal, or Cioran's sleep). Crying, laughing, sleeping — what other responses are adequate to a life that is so indifferent?

Bartleby's paradox: acceptance through refusal.

When Bangladesh refused to renew my passport, I used U.N. travel documents. You can't disown your country.

To have refused love is very much more picturesque than not to have been offered it.

Restating her refusal to marry him and making him believe it once and for all seemed necessary, however, so she said, "Dinner would be fine.

I remember when the great composer Madan Mohan had suddenly passed away, the producer-director H.S. Rawail had approached me to complete three of the pending songs in the Rishi Kapoor-Ranjeeta starrer 'Laila Majnu.' I refused saying I am not worthy of sharing a soundtrack with a genius like Madan Mohan saab.

People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.' Raoul Vaneigem, The Revolution of Everyday Life

In the Nuremberg documents "not a single case could be traced in which an S.S. member had suffered the death penalty because of a refusal to take part in an execution" [Herbert Jäger, "Betrachtungen zum Eichmann-Prozess," in Kriminologie und Strafrechtsreform, 1962].

Poor Andy Nave was killed. He refused to surrender and was shot by Dick Fields. I felt sorry as he used to be quite friendly towards me before the war, but it could not be helped.

It is true that I once refused to eat haggis in Scotland and this did not sit well with the local population.

If it doesn't feel right, don't do it. Trust your intuition and don't ask "why", just say no.

There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth.

It seems to be a social law that the value of labor is proven and perhaps created by its refusal.

Sin is a refusal to grow, a refusal to love, a refusal to get committed, to be concerned, and to take risks.

I love Madonna. She is the only woman I have asked to marry me. She refused, of course.

In each word, not words but the space that, appearing, disappearing, they designate as the moving space of their appearance and their disappearance. In each word, a response to the unexpressed, the refusal and attraction of the unexpressed.