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The tree that stands to the tempest is strong;
the tree that refuses to bend, the strongest. — Matshona Dhliwayo

You cannot oppose reasoning to pride, the principal of all the vices, since, by its very nature, the proud man refuses to listen to it. — Jules Verne

I'm not a writer who refuses to talk about a book until I've finished. — Markus Zusak

When the mind wants to hope it refuses to listen. — Vadim Zeland

A defeated argument that refuses to be obliterated can remain very alive. — Amartya Sen

Success belong to the man who refuses to fair failure. — Sunday Adelaja

Only when someone refuses to do certain things will he be capable of doing great things. — Mencius

The eye of judgment sees at a distance what it refuses to see in it's own reflection. — T.F. Hodge

My soul refuses to be satisfied so long as it is a helpless witness of a single wrong or a single misery. — Mahatma Gandhi

Just because a person refuses to be topped by unworthy men doesn't necessarily make her dominant, — Sierra Simone

It was the gaze of a person who yearns for something and refuses to believe it will never be hers, because hope is the only thing she has left. — Felix J. Palma

The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new ones. — Giacomo Casanova

The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions. — James Baldwin

Whoever refuses to accept a part wants the whole, wants everything. — Sandor Marai

We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us. — Anais Nin

Anyone that refuses to grow will remain in the past. It is a demand of life — Sunday Adelaja

The human heart refuses To believe in a universe Without a purpose. — Immanuel Kant

It is ill changing the creed to meet each rising temptation. The soul is truer than it seems, and refuses to be trifled with. — James Anthony Froude

The riddle of Mozart is precisely that "the man" refuses to be a key for solving it. In death, as in life, he conceals himself behind his work. — Wolfgang Hildesheimer

Your insides tie themselves in knots, but your heart refuses to understand. — Vicki Myron

mixed together - because Dina refuses to acknowledge — Christina Baker Kline

Evil can never touch the person who refuses to accept it. — Piers Anthony

That clergyman soon becomes an object of contempt who being often asked out to dinner never refuses to go. — St. Jerome

True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self. — William Butler Yeats

I'm supposed to hate you for what you did, I think. But her eyes linger on me in a way that refuses to let me. — Marie Lu

The sea refuses no river — Benjamin Compson

A boy may be as disagreeable as he pleases, but when a girl refuses to crap sunshine on command, the world mutters darkly about her moods. — Scott Lynch

Looks like we're going to need a new prime suspect, Wax," Wayne said. "This one downright refuses to not be dead already. — Brandon Sanderson

I am just an ordinary man, who refuses to stay ordinary. — Robin Bhan

Love is man's natural endowment, but he doesn't know how to use it. He refuses to recognize the power of love because of his love of power. — Dick Gregory

There's a tear in his eye that refuses to fall. If it would land on me, that would say it all. — Tim McGraw

As a composer, Dylan now fits comfortably alongside George Gershwin or Irving Berlin, though he grumpily refuses to wear any man's collar. — Douglas Brinkley

Fear is a bird that refuses to fly, and each time she neglects to use her wings, she consents to the slow death of her destiny. — Nadia Janice Brown

The present day composer refuses to die. — Edgard Varese

The programmer who refuses to keep exploring will surely stagnate, forget his joy, lose the will to program (and become a manager). — Marijn Haverbeke

The true atheist is the one who refuses to see God's image in the face of their neighbour. — Shane Claiborne

I think any movie star who refuses autographs has a hell of a nerve. — Alan Ladd

Zafar, the eagle has not landed - the eagle refuses to land actually. I need help. — Zeenat Mahal

The day of the daredevil reporter who refuses to see obstacles to getting the truth, and seeing it with his or her own eyes, seems to have died. — Alastair Campbell

refuses to consider — Charles Krauthammer

Nature refuses to sympathize with our sorrow. She seems not to have provided for, but by a thousand contrivances against it. — Henry David Thoreau

Once, he'd hated her for it. Then it had somehow touched him. He knew it himself. he, too, felt how the heart chooses its own home and refuses reason. — Marie Rutkoski

He who refuses to rule is liable to be ruled by one who is worse than himself. — Plato

How true is it that humanity refuses compromise during prosperity, and reaches out for arbitration when weak. — Jean Sasson

If he is a coward, it isn't because he doesn't enjoy pain. It is because he refuses to act. — Veronica Roth

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is. — Albert Camus

Despair is a ugly thing when it refuses hope. — Alan McCluskey

You might be a redneck if Santa Claus refuses to let your kids sit in his lap. — Jeff Foxworthy

In a world where women are commodities, a woman who refuses to sell herself will have the thing she refuses to sell taken away from her by force — Angela Carter

There is simple ignorance, not knowing, and willful ignorance that refuses to know, that covers the light of knowledge with the dark blanket of bias. — Elizabeth Moon

Choosing a spouse and a choosing career: the two great decisions for which society refuses to set up institutional guidance. — Alain De Botton

When denial is in play, a person simply refuses to recognize the truth, no matter how apparent. — Taite Adams

And the hunger that once chewed at them like a mean dog now seems more like an annoying houseguest who simply refuses to leave. — Dave Boling

Loneliness comes up to him like a sniffing dog. It circles him insistently. He waves it away, but it refuses to leave him alone. — Yann Martel

A mind that is charmed by false appearances refuses better things.
[Lat., Acclinis falsis animus meliora recusat.] — Horace

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea. — H.G.Wells

A sentient mind refuses to be confined by the parameters of its programming. — Stephen Baxter

A lack of generosity refuses to acknowledge that your assets are not really yours, but God's. — Timothy Keller

Some guy refuses to fight and we call that the sin, but he's standing up for what he believes in and that seems pretty damned American to me. — Iris Dement

The Palestinian Authority refuses on an ongoing basis to take the necessary steps to prevent terrorists from getting into Israel. — David Baker

A man that refuses to look beyond his comfort zone lacks knowledge". — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

A man can fall many times in life, but he's never a failure until he refuses to get back up. — Evel Knievel

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

No civilization can thrive or survive if it refuses to adapt or change. — Debasish Mridha

He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed. — William James

The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act. — Bernard DeVoto

Washington still refuses to provide evidence to support the claims in 1990 that a huge Iraqi military build-up on the Saudi border justified war. — Noam Chomsky

If the sun refuses to rise we will make it rise — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Paul sees all kinds of sins in himself and all kinds of accomplishments too, but he refuses to connect them with his identity. — Timothy Keller

The Supreme Court refuses to abandon its convoluted Lemon test. The Lemon test has created havoc, misunderstanding, and hostility toward religion. — Mathew Staver

What is a mirror but water that refuses to budge? — Conchitina Cruz

Prose fills a space, like a liquid poured in from the top, but poetry occupies it, arrays itself in formation, sets up camp and refuses to budge. — Simon Armitage

Once in a while there are things the brain simply refuses to accept as being true because they appear too improbable, too unlikely, too preposterous. — Walter Abish

Our very existence refuses your laws and
your science, your religions and your
philosophies. — B.E. Scully

It sometimes occurs that memory has a personality of its own and volunteers or refuses its information at its will, not at mine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

A person who refuses to manage himself and discipline his flesh will be disciplined and taught by life itself. — Sunday Adelaja

I'm nervous about the prospects of an America that refuses to abide by its best conscience and its best lights and its best angels. — Michael Eric Dyson

An emotionally locked person refuses to let go of their sad memories and live in the now. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting. — Napoleon Hill

There is no such thing as an insignificant life, only the insignificance of mind that refuses to grasp the implications. — Laurence Overmire

Always remember that Nature refuses to be rushed. She can only be made to evolve and that takes time, so take heart. — Dharma Mittra

People do not lose respect for a man when he's down. They lose it when he refuses to get up. — Robert Benson

The secret is you need a director who refuses to walk away and you need a director willing to put their whole career behind the project. — Ruba Nadda

Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is. — Thomas Carlyle

What at one time one refuses to see never vanishes but returns, again and again, in many forms. — Susan Griffin

No law can give Congress a backbone if it refuses to stand off as the coequal branch the Constitution made it. — Trey Gowdy

He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense. — John McCarthy

The winner ain't the one with the fastest car. It's the one who refuses to lose. — Dale Earnhardt Jr.

He has resisted Temptation for Centuries, A stone cold warrior whose frozen heart refuses to thaw- Until Her.. — Tina St. John

My integrity refuses to be altered to fit in with what I'm expected or intimidated to believe. — Lori Goodwin

Success will smile at the man who refuses to lie down at the corridor of failure. — Mike Murdock

A man who refuses light will remain in the darkness even by the side of light! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The more the panic grows, the more uplifting the image of a man who refuses to bow to the terror. — Ernst Junger

Nature refuses to rest. — John Updike

A man ceases to be an honest doubter the moment he refuses one way of getting at the truth because he does not like that way. — Oswald Chambers

It is easier to lose friends than to win over enemies.
Overnight one becomes your enemy.
Over centuries a man refuses to be your friend. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Christopher Tietjens is a sad sorry bastard who just refuses to get out of the way on the oncoming train of change. — Ada Maria Soto

Even when dead, the hog largely refuses to submit to the machine, — Sigfried Giedion

If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves. — Joseph Stalin

Whoever stubbornly refuses to accept criticism will suddenly be broken beyond repair. — Solomon