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