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The refusal to acknowledge the scientific value of embryonic stem cell research is one more tragic misstep. — Lois Capps

If you don't want something, refuse it! Refusal is your true way to the stars! Man rises by refusing with courage the things he finds inconvenient! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Indeed, the first step toward becoming a true outlaw is the refusal to be victimized. — Tom Robbins

However often you may have done them a favour, if you once refuse they forget everything except your refusal. — Pliny The Younger

For he, who sees a need, but waits to be asked, is already set on cruel refusal. — Dante Alighieri

Your money does not cause my poverty. Refusal to believe this is at the bottom of most bad economic thinking. — P. J. O'Rourke

What makes the new year to be good is about what you or refuse to do and not prophecies. — Sunday Adelaja

Suffering is basically the mind's refusal to accept reality as it is. — Marcus Thomas

we have all the evidence we need in our immediate experience and that only a deliberate refusal to "look" is responsible for atheism of any variety. — Antony Flew

Your refusal to contemplate your own death leads to your refusal to contemplate your own life. — Neale Donald Walsch

There is the refusal of style and the refusal of sentimentalism, there is this desire for clarity ... — Luc Delahaye

It is not optimism, Daniel Jackson, merely the refusal to fail. — Sonny Whitelaw

If you refuse to deal with time today, time will deal with you tomorrow. — Michael Bassey Johnson

Love reveals its insanity by its refusal to acknowledge the inherent NORMALITY of the loved one — Alain De Botton

The unforgivable sin is the refusal to pardon. — George Santayana

She had passed her whole life as does everyone, rushing and dreaming in blind, deaf refusal of the miracle of each moment. — Umberto Bartolomeo

Certainly we admire Satan as a symbol of the questioning mind, the refusal to serve, the refusal to blindly obey authority. — Lilith Starr

No is no negative in a woman's mouth. — Philip Sidney

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

Refusal to accept the flow of the world is the root of all misery. — Devdutt Pattanaik

My refusal to play the Games on the Capitol's terms is to be my last act of rebellion. So — Suzanne Collins

You are already that which you want to be, and your refusal to believe it is the only reason you do not see it. — Neville Goddard

The two pillars of 'political correctness' are, a) willful ignorance, and b) a steadfast refusal to face the truth. — George MacDonald Fraser

No behaviour on our part is more self-centered than the demand to speak and the refusal to listen. — Robert E. Fisher

Freedom without opportunity is a devil's gift, and the refusal to provide such opportunities is criminal — Noam Chomsky

While the Jeffersonian did not flatly deny the Creator's power to perform miracles, he admired His refusal to do so. — Daniel J. Boorstin

Proclaim now that you refuse to die without fully living! — Bryant McGill

He who never says "no" is no true man. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Their terror had the evasive quality of guilt: it was not the fear that comes from understanding, but from the refusal to understand. — Ayn Rand

A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

By this act He affirms that the enemy of love is pride, and that the enemy of all good is the refusal to love. — Antonin Sertillanges

There are no evil thoughts, Mr. Rearden," Francisco said softly, "except one: the refusal to think. — Ayn Rand

You don't beat refusal to believe in a frontal attack. — Isaac Asimov

Sometimes heroism is nothing more than patience, curiosity, and a refusal to panic. — Leif Enger

Show enough regret, and your refusal will inspire gratitude. — Mason Cooley

I am yet to meet the idiot at whose door success arrived as a direct result of his refusal to invest in the enterprise that made him rich. — Jonathan Wutawunashe

his total refusal to be tempted by the prostitute — Peter Kreeft

Lauren truly believed she's to blame for his detachment and refusal to attach to her. But — Nako

My characters aren't losers. They're rebels. They win by their refusal to play by everyone else's rules. — Harold Ramis

Silence is an argument in favor of the status quo. A refusal to address an inequity is a strategy for maintaining that inequity. — PZ Myers

Infinite Love is who we really are and who we refuse to be. This refusal is our most essential tension. — David Deida

The only condition of fighting for the right to create is faith in your own vocation, readiness to serve, and refusal to compromise. — Andrei Tarkovsky

Into hate, into refusal, against hope and without fear — Lauren Oliver

A resolute and wise refusal to take part in festivities will be an incentive for introspection and self-purification. — Mahatma Gandhi

A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope. — Samuel Richardson

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

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. — Seamus Heaney

Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd. — Annie Besant

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised. — Chinua Achebe

Elegance is refusal. — Coco Chanel

Did she have to be so downright fetching in her refusal?
Taking Annie back, he struck a sterner pose in order to keep all comers at bay. — Laura Frantz

When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him. — Bayard Rustin

Within living memory of this country, men could rape their wives: women were not seen as a separate sexual entity, with the right of refusal. — Caitlin Moran

What does it mean to know? Really? Is it knowing-her refusal to think concretely about other women? Her refusal to ever consider the possibility? — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Prayer is a refusal to live as an outsider to my God and my own soul. — Eugene H. Peterson

Refusal to hope is nothing more than a decision to die. — Bernie Siegel

The roots of any evil deed can be traced to the perpetrator's refusal to experience pain. — Keith Ablow

The prompter the refusal, the less the disappointment. — Publilius Syrus

Don't you dare cry. If you do, then I shall, and I refuse to allow it. — Patricia Ryan

REFUSAL
When you refuse
to tell your weight
and age,
people know
you're fat and old. — Chocolate Waters

Prayer is the disciplined refusal to act before God acts. — Eugene H. Peterson

Breach of promise is no less an act of insolvency than a refusal to pay one's debt. — Mahatma Gandhi

While Darwin's tear is a defense, and Freud's tear is a symptomatic eruption, Sartre's tear is a refusal. — Eugenie Brinkema

Non-co-operation means refusal both to help the sinner in his sin and not to accept any help or gift from him till he has repented. — Mahatma Gandhi

The test of intellect is the refusal to belabor the obvious. — Alfred Bester

Also, perhaps children are sterner than grown-up people in their refusal to suffer, in their refusal, even, to feel at all. — Elizabeth Bowen

Faith means I chose not to know, which is different than ignorance which refuses to know. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Faith is a refusal to panic, come what may. — David Lloyd-Jones

Nothing is lost in a stumble, only in the refusal to get up. — Gina Greenlee

The refusal to love is the only unbearable thing. — Madeleine L'Engle

Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship to myself. — Nathaniel Branden

Only the refusal to listen guarantees one against being ensnared by the truth. — Robert Nozick

What else is death but the refusal any longer to grow and suffer change? — David Malouf

Sometimes God's refusals are His mercies. — Elisabeth Elliot

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

The beginning of suffering is often a refusal to look at the situation as it really is. — Deepak Chopra

drive means a combination of a willingness to work hard, emotional fortitude, enormous powers of concentration and a refusal to admit defeat. — Alex Ferguson

The slavery of identity comes from our refusal to face ourselves. So we must begin the exploration to self-awareness. Where do we start? — Ruben Papian

There is something underwhelming about scholarly hate mail - the sad literary allusions, the refusal to use contractions. — Brock Clarke

And she refused to go to that miserable place he had dragged her to so many times, to hope for a thing that was unchangeable. — Jhumpa Lahiri

Living with golden fantasies of an endlessly nurtured infancy can be a neurotic refusal to grow up. — Judith Viorst

We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us. — Jean-Paul Sartre

The absurd hero's refusal to hope becomes his singular ability to live in the present with passion. — Albert Camus

Love is just a contact of no refusal. — Sol Michael

Evil is the refusal to see one's self in others. — Richard Powers

A vampire is branding girls, okay?" I ignored his refusal. "Something about that just feels wrong to me."
"I would hope so. — Amanda Hocking

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. — Larry McMurtry

Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual. — Martin Luther King Jr.

The moment of queer pride is a refusal to be shamed by witnessing the other as being ashamed of you. — Maggie Nelson

Your suffering is shaped exactly by your refusal to open. — David Deida

There is no such thing as failure for an artist, unless failure is the refusal to attempt, the unwillingness to dream. — Laurence Overmire

No. Do I need to spell that? — Lance Charnes

The biggest obstacle to making Christ magnificent is the refusal to make yourself small. — James MacDonald

Of so little weight are the greatest services to princes, when put into the balance with a refusal to gratify their passions. — Jonathan Swift

The refusal to choose is a form of choice; disbelief is a form of belief. — Frank Barron

What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation. — Albert Camus

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself. — Soren Kierkegaard

Faith is the refusal to panic. — David Lloyd-Jones

Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope. — Carrie Snow

Could consistently tell me no without making me angry. He was a genius of no. — Stephen King