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Refusal Quotes (page 22)

Even without the mushroom cloudstill I would have hated. Listen. I would have done the same thingseven if there were no death. I will not be held like a drunkardunder the cold tap of facts. I refuse the universal alibi Leonard Cohen
The only sovereign I can allow to rule me is reason. The first law of reason is this: what exists exists; what is is. From this irreducible, bedrock principle, all knowledge is built. This is the foundation from which life is embraced. Reason is a choice. Wishes and whims are not facts, nor are they a means to discovering them. Reason is our only way of grasping reality—it is our basic tool of survival. We are free to evade the effort of thinking, to reject reason, but we are not free to... Terry Goodkind
Michael Connelly quote: "She refused to accept the simple truism that the better you..."
She refused to accept the simple truism that the better you were, the bigger threat you were to those at the top.... Michael Connelly
I've always known that the quality of love was the mind, even though the body sometimes refuses this knowledge. The body lives for itself. It lives only to feed and wait for the night. It's essentially nocturnal. But what of the mind which is born of the sun, William, and must spend thousands of hours of a lifetime awake and aware? Can you balance off the body, that pitiful, selfish thing of night against a whole lifetime of sun and intellect? I don't know. I only know there has been your... Ray Bradbury
...why be an average person? All the great achievements of history have been made by strong individuals who refused to consult statistics or to listen to those who could prove convincingly that what they wanted to do, and in fact ultimately did do, was completely impossible Eric Butterworth
The only way to combat the murder that is war is to show the dirty combinations that make it and the criminals and swine that hope for it and the idiotic way they run it when they get it so that an honest man will distrust it as he would distrust a racket and refuse to be enslaved into it. Ernest Hemingway
The same chemicals were used in the cooking as were used on the composition of her own being: only those which caused the most violent reaction, contradiction, and teasing, the refusal to answer questions but the love of putting them, and all the strong spices of human relationship which bore a relation to black pepper, paprika, soybean sauce, ketchup and red peppers. Anais Nin
So, in the end, above ground you must have the Haves, pursuing pleasure and comfort and beauty, and below ground the Have-nots, the Workers getting continually adapted to the conditions of their labour. Once they were there, they would no doubt have to pay rent, and not a little of it, for the ventilation of their caverns; and if they refused, they would starve or be suffocated for arrears. Such of them as were so constituted as to be miserable and rebellious would die; and, in the end, the... H. G. Wells
The matter with human beans," the BFG went on, "is that they is absolutely refusing to believe in anything unless they is actually seeing it right in front of their own schnozzles. Roald Dahl
The green thumb is equable in the face of nature's uncertainties; he moves among her mysteries without feeling the need for control or explanations or once-and-for-all solutions. To garden well is to be happy amid the babble of the objective world, untroubled by its refusal to be reduced by our ideas of it, its indomitable rankness. Michael Pollan
Martin Luther King jr. quote: "A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right."
A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. Martin Luther King jr.
Joyce Carol Oates quote: "The ideal art, the noblest of art: working with the..."
The ideal art, the noblest of art: working with the complexities of life, refusing to simplify, to "overcome" doubt. Joyce Carol Oates
Douglas Adams quote: "I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't..."
I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer Douglas Adams
Jonathan Lethem quote: "The revving heart of my hopefulness, kicked into gear anew, is..."
The revving heart of my hopefulness, kicked into gear anew, is the most precious thing about me, I refuse to vilify it. Jonathan Lethem
Ian Mcewan quote: "It was the reason he had survived. It was the ordinary way of..."
It was the reason he had survived. It was the ordinary way of saying she would refuse all other men. Only you. Come back. Ian Mcewan

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