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Last updated on December 18, 2024.
How clerks love refusing. It salves them for being clerks.
The writers of the French enlightenment had deliberately used blasphemy as a weapon, refusing to accept the power of the Church to set limiting points on thought.
No religious position is loyally served by refusing to consider annoying theories which may well turn out to be facts.
We can rationalize anything and easily quit on ourselves. Leadership is refusing to quit on others.
Indeed, by refusing to tackle Assad's brutality, we may actively alienate more of the Sunni population, driving them towards ISIS.
I just don't think it's good for us to be run out of town. (Refusing to cancel Secretary of State visit to Moscow)
You have the power to take away someone's happiness by refusing to forgive. That someone is you.
I'm old enough to remember Richard Nixon. They called it the imperial presidency when he was refusing to spend money that Congress had appropriated.
By refusing to give 16- and 17-year olds the vote, the Conservative Government are risking worsening voter apathy and being on the wrong side of history.
It's not about speed and gold medals. It's about refusing to be stopped.
The first chance you have to avoid a loss from a foolish loan is by refusing to make it; there is no second chance.
More Than' means refusing to define yourself according to what society dictates, or everyone around you thinks you should do or be.
There is more to joy than looking only for affirmation; refusing to be challenged is the only bigotry.
Ecology is a dirty seven-letter word to many people. They are like heavy sleepers refusing to be aroused. "Leave me alone! It's not time to get up yet!"
Never break a Muslim's heart by refusing what he offers you, when you know that anything that comes to you through him is in reality from Allah, and he is only His powerless and compelled means.
Mosques where sharia law prevails - they exist in France. Refusing to see that means that we do equate Islam with Islamic fundamentalism. We have to denounce and eradicate it.
The ideal art, the noblest of art: working with the complexities of life, refusing to simplify, to "overcome" doubt.
Refusing further service as a Roman soldier: I am a soldier of Christ: combat is not permitted to me.
[There is] a duty in refusing to cooperate in any undertaking that violates the Constitutional rights of the individual. This holds in particular for all inquisitions that are concerned with the private life and the political affiliations of the citizens.
By refusing to pay too much for an investment, you minimize the chances that your wealth will ever disappear or suddenly be destroyed.
That's a huge subject - a writer refusing to do publicity but writing about publicity.
I love the feeling of being on the hunt - the feeling that the story is refusing to be solved in some lesser way and is insisting that you see it on its highest terms.
Ghosts are those memories that are too strong to be forgotten for good, echoing across the years and refusing to be obliterated by time.
Fearlessness may be a gift, but perhaps most precious is courage from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one's actions.
You recognize the truth because sometimes it's hard to swallow, but if you hold it in your mouth, refusing to eat it, you are going to choke.
Lying on the ceiling. Refusing to go to school. Not opening up to me. Climbing water towers. "No, she's all right."
I'd spent half of my life crying, the other half refusing to cry
Everybody does the same mistake: refusing the means, but wanting the ends. You want peace and harmony in the world, but refuse to have them in yourself.
Your partner cannot fault you for refusing to host a perpetual-motion party or for the fact that you must sleep and will eventually die.
When I take up my pen to write, I feel the strength of standing up and refusing to be silent. In an oppressive situation, silence is death.
What is really amazing, and frustrating, is mankind's habit of refusing to see the obvious and inevitable until it is there, and then muttering about unforeseen catastrophes.
The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the regular armies and remains a freelance.
Refusing to accept God's love because we're unworthy - of course we're unworthy! - is another golden calf.
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.
'The Missing Picture' came together slowly, after much provocation and by refusing different forms, until I finally found the right form.
Manz, formerly one of Zwingli's closest allies, held that there was no biblical warrant for infant baptism. Refusing to recant his views, he was tied up and drowned in the River Limmat.
There are seasons when faith shows itself in taking; there are seasons when it is witnessed in refusing.
I feel myself acting like a lunatic, but I can't stop. It would be like refusing to breathe.
I worked with Dalton Trumbo, who served time for refusing to give up names of people that were accused of being Communists. I've always admired him.
The essence of warriorship, or the essence of human bravery, is refusing to give up on anyone or anything.
While the U.S. government is unlikely to ever limit the number of football games, plenty of parents are refusing to let their children play the sport due to the risk of head injuries.
Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using.
Despite my professional experience, the fifteen-hour workdays, and a successful new show that I had helped build, MSNBC was still refusing to pay me what I was worth.
Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.
It seems the deeper, truer personality of the artist only emerges in the making of decisions... in refusing and accepting, changing and revising.
Learning to face reality, refusing refuge in cliches and lies, fighting to find a way out - that's what 'Rehab' is about.
People who say that music is dead or hip-hop is dead are refusing to evolve.
Let's keep refusing to accept the world as it is and insisting on building the world we dream of. Don't let the haters have the last word.
Surely arrested development consists not in refusing to lose old things but in failing to add new things.
To revenge reasonable incredulity by refusing evidence, is a degree of insolence with which the world is not yet acquainted; and stubborn audacity is the last refuge of guilt.
??Great. She shook her head. Not only am I having conversations with myself, but now I'm refusing to talk to me. This has got to be the first sign of madness.
What is grit? Grit is refusing to give up. It's persistence. It's making your own luck.
If I made a mistake in terms of running for president, the mistake was not in refusing to run in '91.
Justin Trudeau certainly understands climate science, as do his ministers. But they're refusing to take action on it because of short-term political concerns.
But all history has taught us the grim lesson that no nation has ever been successful in avoiding the terrors of war by refusing to defend its rights - by attempting to placate aggression.
My head spins as I glance away, refusing to get sucked back into his gaze when so much is at risk.
Keeping a diary is like closing your bedroom door and refusing to come out until dinnertime: it is a declaration of self.
[On refusing to be silenced:] I do not pretend to be John the Baptist rebuking the Pharisees. I do not claim to be Nathan upbraiding David. I aspire only to be Balaam's ass, castigating his master.
The matter with human beans," the BFG went on, "is that they is absolutely refusing to believe in anything unless they is actually seeing it right in front of their own schnozzles.
Nothing ruins the flow of conversation more quickly than refusing a compliment you have just received. Never disagree with something nice that is said to you or about you.
