“ The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act. ”
- Bernard Devoto- Copy
- 55
“ Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting. ”
- Napoleon Hill- Copy
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“ The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. The religion which based on experience, which refuses dogmatic. If there's any religion that would cope the scientific needs it will be Buddhism. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
- 3.9K
“ If Willie Nelson had been Rosa Parks, there never would have been a civil rights movement in this country, because he refuses to leave the back of the bus. ”
- Kinky Friedman- Copy
- 1.1K
“ If the person at the wheel refuses to ask for directions, it is time for a new driver. ”
- Jennifer Granholm- Copy
- 3K
“ As long as the federal government refuses to put a sound regulatory system in place for drug reimportation, Americans are at risk of falling prey to a tainted drug supply. ”
- Herb Kohl- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. ”
- Napoleon Hill- Copy
- 2.4K
“ He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed. ”
- William James- Copy
- 4K
“ Reality is that which refuses to go away when I stop believing in it. ”
- Phillip K. Dick- Copy
- 3.6K
“ CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power. ”
- Arthur C. Clarke- Copy
- 2.5K
“ Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfilment of animal desires. ”
- Alexander Graham Bell- Copy
- 594
“ Despair has been called the unforgivable sin — not presumably because God refuses to forgive it but because it despairs of the possibility of being forgiven. ”
- Frederick Buechner- Copy
- 2K
“ You can come out of the furnace of trouble two ways: if you let if consume you, you come out a cinder; but there is a kind of metal which refuses to be consumed, and comes out a star. ”
- Jean Church- Copy
- 1.7K
“ He who, having lost one ideal, refuses to give his heart and soul to another and nobler, is like a man who declines to build a house on rock because the wind and rain ruined his house on the sand. ”
- Constance Naden- Copy
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“ Postmodernism refuses to privilege any one perspective, and recognizes only difference, never inequality, only fragments, never conflict. ”
- Elizabeth Wilson- Copy
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“ Reality is whatever refuses to go away when I stop believing in it. ”
- Philip K. Dick- Copy
- 99
“ Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes — our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking around. ”
- Gilbert K. Chesterton- Copy
- 2K
“ Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to, it will inevitably continue to reflect the finicky canons of the genteel tradition and the depressing pieties of the Culture Religion of Modernism. ”
- Leslie Fiedler- Copy
- 2.1K
“ We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer the true portrait in all its homogeneity, to one with a detail added which refuses to fit in. ”
- Pamela Hansford Johnson- Copy
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“ When a bachelor of philosophy from the Antilles refuses to apply for certification as a teacher on the grounds of his color I say that philosophy has never saved anyone. When someone else strives and strains to prove to me that black men are as intelligent as white men I say that intelligence has never saved anyone: and that is true, for, if philosophy and intelligence are invoked to proclaim the equality of men, they have also been employed to justify the extermination of men. ”
- Frantz Fanon- Copy
- 1.7K
“ You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year. ”
- Bill Clinton- Copy
- 2K
“ Suppose a white man should come to me and say, "Joseph, I like your horses. I want to buy them." I say to him, "No, my horses suit me; I will not sell them." Then he goes to my neighbor and says to him, "Joseph has some good horses… ”
- Chief Joseph- Copy
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“ The existence of good bad literature — the fact that one can be amused or excited or even moved by a book that one's intellect simply refuses to take seriously — is a reminder that art is not the same thing as cerebration. ”
- George Orwell- Copy
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“ When it aims to express a love of the world it refuses to conceal the many reasons why the world is hard to love, though we must love it because we have no other, and to fail to love it is not to exist at all. ”
- Mark Van Doren- Copy
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