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Refusal Quotes

Ric Ocasek quote: "Refusing to ask for help when you need it is refusing someone..."
Refusing to ask for help when you need it is refusing someone the chance to be helpful. Ric Ocasek
Robert Smith quote: "Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your..."
Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up. Robert Smith
Aiden Wilson Tozer quote: "Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will."
Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will. Aiden Wilson Tozer
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd. Annie Besant
I am your Prince and you will marry me," Humperdinck said. Buttercup whispered, "I am your servant and I refuse."I am you Prince and you cannot refuse."I am your loyal servant and I just did."Refusal means death."Kill me then. William Goldman
Some people refuse to take the next step. You could refuse to take what you wanted most, because you're afraid someday you might lost it. Nora Roberts
I was admonished ot adopt feminine clothes; I refused, and still refuse. As for other avocations of women, there are plenty of other women to perform them. Joan of Arc
Rationality is man's basic virtue, the source of all his other virtues. Man's basic vice, the source of all evils, is the act of unfocussing his mind, the suspension of his conciousness, which is not blindness, but the refusal to see, not ignorance, but the refusal to know. Irrationality is the rejection of man's means of survival and therefore, a commitment to a course of blind destruction; that is anti-mind, anti-life. Ayn Rand
When my nose finally stops bleeding and I've disposed of the bloody paper towels, Teddy Barnes insists on driving me home in his ancient Honda Civic, a car that refuses to die and that Teddy, cheap as he is, refuses to trade in. Richard Russo
You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change. Ursula K. Le Guin
I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony. ... A lot of good fiction is sentimental. ... The novelist who refuses sentiment refuses the full spectrum of human behavior, and then he just dries up. ... I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass. Jim Harrison
He looked down at the glass again. ‘I care that these things happen, that we poison ourselves and our progeny, that we knowingly destroy our future, but I do not believe that there is anything - and I repeat, anything - that can be done to prevent it. We are a nation of egoists. It is our glory, but it will be our destruction, for none of us can be made to concern ourselves about something as abstract as “the common good”. The best of us can rise to feeling concern for our families, but as a... Donna Leon
Strong Mercy: My desires are many and my cry is pitiful, but ever didst thou save me by hard refusals; and this strong mercy has been wrought into my life through and through. Day by day thou art making me worthy of the simple, great gifts that thou gavest to me unasked---this sky and the light, this body and the life and the mind---saving me from perils of overmuch desire. There are times when I languidly linger and times when I awaken and hurry in search of my goal; but cruelly thou hidest... Rabindranath Tagore
A living man can be enslaved and reduced to the historic condition of an object. But if he dies in refusing to be enslaved, he reaffirms the existence of another kind of human nature which refuses to be classified as an object. Albert Camus

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