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Last updated on April 15, 2025.
To joke in the face of danger is the supreme politeness, a delicate refusal to cast oneself as a tragic hero.
The engineer's power was usually limited to a refusal to endorse a given plan, or to the tender of his resignation.
Freedom without opportunity is a devil's gift, and the refusal to provide such opportunities is criminal
The absurd hero's refusal to hope becomes his singular ability to live in the present with passion.
Perhaps that is what love is -- the momentary or prolonged refusal to think of another person in terms of power.
A man's rights are not violated by a private individual's refusal to deal with him.
Now, what produces a want of demand A refusal to take from other countries the commodities which they produce.
Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards because a refusal often offends, I read somewhere.
An important book for our times, in which one woman's determination and refusal to consent sets an example of courage and honesty.
It's hard to see how much of our social fabric is made up of a radical refusal to love people.
The refusal to acknowledge the scientific value of embryonic stem cell research is one more tragic misstep.
A refusal of nature as a model is a tradition that goes right back to Oscar Wilde.
The slavery of identity comes from our refusal to face ourselves. So we must begin the exploration to self-awareness. Where do we start?
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 only condition of fighting for the right to create is faith in your own vocation, readiness to serve, and refusal to compromise.
Sometimes heroism is nothing more than patience, curiosity, and a refusal to panic.
There is something underwhelming about scholarly hate mail - the sad literary allusions, the refusal to use contractions.
The real reason we haven't had peace is because of a persistent refusal of the Palestinians to recognize a Jewish state in any border.
'Green' is likely to be a big issue in the 2008 U.S. presidential election - largely in response to George Bush's suicidal refusal to engage with environmental issues.
A refusal to believe that God loves us is the unbelief which destroys the soul.
Tout refus du langage est une mort. Any refusal of language is a death.
When Charity is deeply rooted in the soul it shows itself exteriorly: there is so gracious a way of refusing what we cannot give, that the refusal pleases as much as the gift.
Infinite Love is who we really are and who we refuse to be. This refusal is our most essential tension.
The biggest obstacle to making Christ magnificent is the refusal to make yourself small.
Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual.
What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation.
Now, what produces a want of demand? A refusal to take from other countries the commodities which they produce.
My characters aren't losers. They're rebels. They win by their refusal to play by everyone else's rules.
The roots of any evil deed can be traced to the perpetrator's refusal to experience pain.
The Department of Education's refusal to oversee and hold for-profit schools accountable is a government-made disaster, and American students and taxpayers should not have to pay for it.
For the essence of science, I would suggest, is simply the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.
Refusal to engage with the Russian government is not a viable long-term foreign policy option for the U.K.
I grew up in the Boston suburbs and inherited a stubborn New England refusal to acknowledge frigid temperatures.
Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise.
We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.
Gary Johnson's refusal or inability to name a single foreign leader, current or former, whom he admired, showed that he is not ready for the presidency.
When all hope is lost, pig-headed refusal to acknowledge reality will always save the day.
A resolute and wise refusal to take part in festivities will be an incentive for introspection and self-purification.
The refusal of the British and Russian peoples to accept what appeared to be inevitable defeat was the great factor in the salvage of our civilization.
Your money does not cause my poverty. Refusal to believe this is at the bottom of most bad economic thinking.
The wholeness, coherence, identity, which we attribute to the depicted scene [in a photograph] is a projection, a refusal of an impoverished reality in favour of an imagined plenitude.
Once you have confidence in your instincts, you must never allow other people's refusal to believe, or their data to refute, what you instinctively know is true.
A vampire is branding girls, okay?" I ignored his refusal. "Something about that just feels wrong to me." "I would hope so.
Only the refusal to listen guarantees one against being ensnared by the truth.
The refusal to snitch out of a pathological hatred for police is nothing new.
A weapon men use against women is the refusal to take them seriously.
The work of art is born of the intelligence's refusal to reason the concrete. It marks the triumph of the carnal.
While the Jeffersonian did not flatly deny the Creator's power to perform miracles, he admired His refusal to do so.
However often you may have done them a favour, if you once refuse they forget everything except your refusal.
Breach of promise is no less an act of insolvency than a refusal to pay one's debt.
A really intelligent man makes an indifferent painter. For painting requires a certain blindness, a partial refusal to be aware of all the options.
I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo.
True obedience is the refusal to compromise in any regard our relationship with God, regardless of the consequences.
The two pillars of 'political correctness' are, a) willful ignorance, and b) a steadfast refusal to face the truth.
Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.
We gain power in our refusal to accept less than we deserve.
This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.
What keeps me level is the refusal to let the best of human aspirations die in the face of the challenges. I make a moral decision to be hopeful.
Living with golden fantasies of an endlessly nurtured infancy can be a neurotic refusal to grow up.
Part of the trick of being happy is a refusal to allow oneself to become too nostalgic for the heady triumphs of one's youth.
