Refusal Quotes - Page 11

• Perhaps that is what love is -- the momentary or prolonged refusal to think of another person in terms of power.

  Phyllis Rose

  Love Is, Thinking, Term

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• I understand why so many Americans are fed up with government. The 112th Congress was almost universally derided as the worst ever. It was the most polarized body since the end of Reconstruction, according to one study, and I grew embarrassed by its partisan bickering, inactivity, and refusal to address the vital challenges facing America.

  Olympia Snowe

  Government, America, Challenges

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• Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards because a refusal often offends, I read somewhere.

  Terry Pratchett

  Wizards, Affair

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Mort: (Discworld Novel 4)”, p.214, Random House

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• It is not for man to seek, or even to believe in, God.
  He only has to refuse his ultimate love to everything that is not God.
  This refusal does not presuppose any belief.
  It is enough to recognize what is obvious to any mind:
  that all the goods of this world, past, present, and future, real or imaginary,
  are finite and limited and radically incapable of satisfying
  the desire that perpetually burns within us
  for an infinite and perfect good.

  Simone Weil

  Real, Believe, Past

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• Show enough regret, and your refusal will inspire gratitude.

  Mason Cooley

  Gratitude, Regret, Inspire

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• Any refusal to recognize reality, for any reason whatever, has disastrous consequences. There are no evil thoughts except one: the refusal to think. Don't ignore your own desires.... Don't sacrifice them. Examine their cause. There is a limit to how much you should have to bear.

  Ayn Rand

  Sacrifice, Thinking, Reality

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.1454, Penguin

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• The very notion of tabu is one of the rightest notions in the world. Better any old tabu than none, for a man cannot be said to be"on the side of the stars" at all, unless he makes refusals.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Stars, Men, World

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• In any conflict area, it is always the women who are the first point of attack. But I think the more they have seen of oppression and violence, they have gotten more brave, more strong, more fearless than they were. You see this refusal to just keep quiet and do as you are told.

  Fatima Bhutto

  Leadership, Wisdom, Strong

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• 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

  Mean, Helping, Sin

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Running, Odds, Voice

  "The Good Fight". Book by Shirley Chisholm, 1973.

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• The refusal of King George to allow the colonies to operate an honest money system, which freed the ordinary man from clutches of the money manipulators was probably the prime cause of the revolution.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Kings, Men, Ordinary

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• We stopped the fighting in 1991 on an agreement that Iraq would take steps to assure the world that it would not engage in further aggression and that it would destroy its weapons of mass destruction. It has refused to take those steps. That refusal constitutes a breach of the armistice which renders it void and justifies resumption of the armed conflict.

  Harry Reid

  Fighting, Mass Destruction, Agreement

  "Where did Syria's chemical weapons come from?" by Frank Salvato, www.breitbart.com. July 14, 2012.

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• 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

  Fighting, Compromise, Vocation

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Broadly speaking, I learned to recognize sin as the refusal to live up to the enlightenment we possess: to know the right order of values and deliberately to choose the lower ones: to know that, however much these values may differ with different people at different stages of spiritual growth, for one's self there must be no compromise with that which one knows to be the lower value.

  Margaret Bondfield

  Spiritual, Learning, Self

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• 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

  Contentment, Triumph, Youth

  Larry McMurtry (2000). “Roads: Driving America's Great Highways”

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• It`s all part of the pattern. This is a story of scandal and corruption, investigations, refusals to take responsibility. If this government continues in office, this will continue.

  Stephen Harper

  Responsibility, Government, Office

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• Infantile people complain and say that God is cruel or that there is no God. Mature people, however, know that there is wisdom and sometimes an eternal kindness in God's refusals.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Kindness, People, Complaining

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• Do not be ashamed of being poor, or of asking alms. Receive what is given you with humility, and accept a refusal meekly. Frequently call to mind Our Lady's journey into Egypt with her Holy Child, and of all the poverty, contempt and suffering they endured. If you follow their example you will indeed be rich amid your poverty.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Children, Humility, Journey

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “Introduction to the Devout Life”, p.211, Catholic Way Publishing

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• Older boys often asked me to teach them “some bad words in your language”. At first I politely refused. My refusal merely increased their determination, so I solved the problem by teaching them phrases like 'man kharam' which means “I'm an idiot”. I told them that what I was teaching them was so nasty that they would have to promise never to repeat it to anyone. They would then spend all of recess running around yelling “I'm an idiot! I'm an idiot!”. I never told them the truth. I figured someday, somebody would

  Firoozeh Dumas

  Running, Determination, Teaching

  Firoozeh Dumas (2007). “Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America”, p.34, Random House

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• Sometimes I hear the world discussed as the realm of men. This is not my experience. I have watched men fall to the ground like leaves. They were swept up as memories, and burned. History owns them. These men were petrified in both senses of the word: paralyzed and turned to stone. Their refusal to express feeling killed them. Anachronistic men. Those poor, poor boys.

  Antonella Gambotto-Burke

  Memories, Fall, Men

  Antonella Gambotto-Burke (2013). “The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide”, p.16, Antonella Gambotto-Burke

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• 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

  Self, Identity, Slavery

  Ruben Papian (2013). “How to Wish”, p.6

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• Not only is suicide a sin, it is the sin. It is the ultimate and absolute evil, the refusal to take an interest in existence; the refusal to take the oath of loyalty to life. The man who kills a man, kills a man. The man who kills himself, kills all men. As far as he is concerned he wipes out the world.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Loyalty, Suicide, Men

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

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• Socrates was the chief saint of the Stoics throughout their history ; his attitude at the time of his trial, his refusal to escape, his calmness in the face of death , and his contention that the perpetrator of injustice injures himself more than his victim, all fitted in perfectly with Stoic teaching. So did his indifference to heat and cold, his plainness in matters of food and dress, and his complete independence of all bodily comforts.

  Bertrand Russell

  Attitude, Teaching, Independence

  Bertrand Russell (2008). “History of Western Philosophy”, p.253, Simon and Schuster

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• Every new Fashion is a refusal to inherit, a subversion against the oppression of the preceding Fashion; Fashion experiences itself as a Right, the natural right of the present over the past.

  Roland Barthes

  Fashion, Past, Oppression

  Roland Barthes (1983). “Systeme de la Mode”, p.112, Univ of California Press

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• A man assumes that a woman's refusal is just part of a game. Or, at any rate, a lot of men assume that. When a man says no, it's no. When a woman says no, it's yes, or at least maybe. There is even a joke to that effect. And little by little, women begin to believe in this view of themselves.

  Erica Jong

  Believe, Men, Views

  erica jong “fear of flying”

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