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Quotes About Refusal

You are rich if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship with myself.
~ Nathaniel Branden
It is not acceptance but denial that leaves me stuck.
~ Nathaniel Branden
Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship to myself.
~ Nathaniel Branden
Have you given any thought to my offer?" Roberta asks her. "I don't need to. I already gave you my answer." "It's very noble to stand on principle and refuse an unwound spine," Roberta says. "It does, however, represent a wrongful mind-set that is neither productive nor adaptive. It's backward, actually, and it makes you part of the problem.
~ Neal Shusterman
He knew what loss was, how the mind refuses to believe, the way the body aches with a need that can't be satisfied, and the awful, endless desolation of the spirit.
~ Charles Todd
REFUSAL When you refuse to tell your weight and age, people know you're fat and old.
~ Chocolate Waters
Paine's power, like Orwell's and Baldwin's, lay in his refusal to be anyone's propagandist. He told people, even people who supported him, what they often did not want to hear.
~ Chris Hedges
Indeed, the first step toward becoming a true outlaw is the refusal to be victimized.
~ Tom Robbins
She shook her head from side to side, resigned to her rebellious brain. Why was there nothing it refused? No misery, no regret, no hateful picture too rotten to accept? Like a greedy child it snatched up everything. Just once, could it say, No thank you? I just ate and can't hold another bite? I am full
~ Toni Morrison
I refused to explain, or even acknowledge, the "problem" as anything other than an artistic one.
~ Toni Morrison
Taký brak odmietam písa?! Vrátim sa a poviem mu, aby si ve?mi rýchlo urobil magickú cesnakovú omeletu, inak mu prehryznem kr?nú tepnu" - tá predstava ma tak vyviedla z miery, že som iba dodala: "A potom... potom pôjdem domov alebo ?o..
~ Kerstin Gier
Henry requests Sin marry Caledonia) I would sooner geld myself. Drunk. With a dull knife. (Sin)
~ Kinley MacGregor
How could you bear to refuse it?" Seven felt warm tears rising to her eyes, and slowly she reached out for Riley's hands. Her eyes were glistening, as well, as she accepted Seven's hand. "My individuality had become more important to me than the perfection the Caeliar were offering," Seven replied.
~ Kirsten Beyer
No," Kelsey said as if it were the
~ Kristan Higgins
Lauren: "Can I ask you a question?" Angie: "Generally that's a question one should say no to. Often hell no.
~ Kristin Hannah
The partisan is still the one who refuses to carry weapons openly, who fights from ambush, and who uses the enemy's uniform, as well as true or false insignias and every type of civilian clothing as camouflage. Secrecy and darkness are his strongest weapons...
~ Carl Schmitt
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~ Caroline Fraser
In places this book is a little over-written, because Mr Blunden is no more able to resist a quotation than some people are to refuse a drink.
~ George Orwell
Must I say it, ser? You call me love, yet you refuse me, when I have most desperate need of you. Is it so wrong of me to want a knight to keep me safe? - Arianne
~ George R.R. Martin
Laughing at the universe liberated my life. I escape its weight by laughing. I refuse any intellectual translations of this laughter, since my slavery would commrnce from that point on.
~ Georges Bataille
Include me out.
~ Sam Goldwyn
Tis enough - Who listens once will listen twice; Her heart be sure is not of ice, And one refusal no rebuff.
~ Lord Byron