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  • The wise stand out because they see themselves as part of the Whole. They shine because they don't want to impress. They achieve great things because they don't look for recognition. Their wisdom is contained in what they are, not their opinions. They refuse to argue, so no-one argues with them.

  • Some dangers are so spectacular and so much beyond normal experience that the mind refuses to accept them as real, and watches the approach of doom without any sense of apprehension. The man who looks at the onrushing tidal wave, the descending avalanche, or the spinning funnel of the tornado, yet makes no attempt to flee, is not necessarily paralyzed with fright or resigned to an unavoidable fate. He may simply be unable to believe that the message of his eyes concerns him personally. It is all happening to somebody else.

    Fear   Real   Believe  
  • I think every woman in our culture is a feminist. They may refuse to articulate it, but if you were to take any woman back 40 years and say, 'Is this a world you want to live in?' They would say, 'No.'

  • We cannot embrace His cross, and yet refuse our own. We cannot raise the cup of His remembrance to our lips, without a secret pledge to Him, to one another, to the great company of the faithful in every age that we, too, hold ourselves at God's disposal, that we will ask nothing on our own account, that we will pass simply into the Divine hand to take us whither it will.

    James Martineau (1879). “Hours of thought on sacred things, sermons”
  • Only when someone refuses to do certain things will he be capable of doing great things.

  • I've been married five times, and people think that's some bizarre thing, yet I've got buddies who refuse to get married and have sex with 15 people a week. I'm like "Which is better?" At least I was trying.

    Sex   Thinking   People  
    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • We need to see, and agree that what we seek already lives within us, and we within it. Now we know our one great task: watch for whatever promises us freedom, and then quietly, consciously refuse to see ourselves through the eyes of what we know is incomplete. Then we live wholeness itself, instead of spending our lives looking for it.

    Eye   Promise   Tasks  
    "Step Into True Wholeness" by Guy Finley, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 26, 2012.
  • Between the banks of pain and pleasure the river of life flows. It is only when the mind refuses to flow with life, and gets stuck at the banks, that it becomes a problem.

    Pain   Rivers   Mind  
  • In addition the bill would expand an existing law "conscience clause" that protects physician training programs that refuse to provide training for abortion procedures.

    Law   Abortion   Training  
  • They can't hurt me. Sure, they can crush you and kill you. They can lay you out on 42nd and Broadway and put hoses on you and flush you in the sewers and put you on the subway and carry you out to Coney island and bury you on the Ferris wheel. But I refuse to sit here and worry about dying.

    Crush   Hurt   Islands  
    Bob Dylan (2005). “Bob Dylan: Inspirations”, p.67, Andrews McMeel Publishing
  • I just know that I don't want cheating. I refuse. I deepened myself but I don't believe in myself because my thought is invented.

    Cheating   Believe   Want  
    Clarice Lispector (2012). “Água Viva”, p.38, New Directions Publishing
  • But I refuse to believe that I am a better actor than myself.

    Believe   Actors   Refuse  
  • Not everybody has time to pay attention fully, or not everybody has the time to read a book. Some people refuse to read books, and I'm just an unread book. Open me!

    Book   People   Attention  
    Source: www.cnn.com
  • Individuals can refuse to use a given technology, but unless they live in total isolation will have to engage with people whose psyches have been shaped by a multitude of technologies. And there is no escaping the pervasive ecological effects.

    Source: www.counterpunch.org
  • My daughter refuses to call me mother in public; my little grandson calls me Spongeslob Squarebottom, and nobody else ever calls me at all.

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

    Life   Mind   Refuse  
  • One must always be careful of books,' said Tessa, 'and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.' 'I'm not sure a book has ever changed me,' said Will. 'Well there is one volume that promises to teach one how to turn oneself into an entire flock of sheep-' 'Only the very weak minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry,' said Tessa, determined not to let him run wildly off with the conversation.

    Running   Book   Sheep  
    Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.88, Simon and Schuster
  • The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced.

    Washington Irving (1835). “The complete works of Washington Irving in one volume with a memoir of the author”, p.270
  • I don't believe in failure. I believe every setback is an opportunity to learn, regroup, get stronger, and try again. This is my motto: Rejection is God's protection. When people feel that they have failed, it's usually because somebody or something caused them to feel that way and taste defeat. I refuse to dwell on that. Yes, it sucks at first, and the feeling is valid, but it all happens for a reason. Let go.

  • You will be dead so long as you refuse to die.

    Long   Refuse   Dies  
    George MacDonald (2015). “Lilith”, p.176, Booklassic
  • I don't really have any "must work withs," but I would never refuse if a celebrity or fellow musician came along who is willing to write or sing or play on a Lita song.

    Song   Writing   Play  
    "Interview: The Runaways Rocker Lita Ford on 'Living Like a Runaway'". Interview with Jeff Doles, www.hollywoodchicago.com. March 10, 2016.
  • In lang, lang days o' simmer, When the clear and cloudless sky Refuses ae weep drap o' rain To Nature parched and dry, The genial night, wi' balmy breath, Gars verdue, spring anew, An' ilka blade o' grass Keps its ain drap o' dew.

    Summer   Spring   Rain  
  • I believe that living on the edge, living in and through your fear, is the summit of life, and that people who refuse to take that dare condemn themselves to a life of living death.

    Believe   People   Dare  
  • In making portraits, I refuse to photograph myself as do so many photographers. My style is the style of the people I photograph.

    Lotte Jacobi (1978). “Lotte Jacobi”
  • The ultimate goal is victory. And if you refuse to work as hard as you possibly can toward that aim, or if you do anything that keeps you from achieving that goal, then you are just cheating yourself.

    Cheating   Goal   Victory  
  • I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.

    "The Devil and the Good Lord". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, act 10, sc. 2, 1951.
  • I absolutely refuse to bare midriff.

    Refuse  
  • Europe should stick to an open economy, to competition and we should refuse protectionism. It will not save one single job in the long run to protect non-competitive industries.

    Running   Jobs   Europe  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • I am truly miserable - more so than I like to acknowledge to myself. Pride refuses to aid me. It has brought me into the scrape, and will not help me out of it.

    Anne Bronte (2016). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Diversion Illustrated Classics)”, p.183, Diversion Books
  • One has to have a complicated kind of optimism. You can't refuse to look at how horrible things are.

    Optimism   Looks   Kind  
    Tony Kushner, Robert Vorlicky (1998). “Tony Kushner in Conversation”, p.148, University of Michigan Press
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