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Refusing Quotes (page 19)

E. M. Forster quote: "His wings were failing, but he refused to fall without a..."
His wings were failing, but he refused to fall without a struggle. E. M. Forster
Virginia Woolf quote: "I refuse to allow you, Beadle though you are, to turn me off..."
I refuse to allow you, Beadle though you are, to turn me off the grass Virginia Woolf
Here," he said, "get yourself some healthy food. You look awful." I said he had done more than enough for me and that I couldn't accept money on top of everything else, but he refused to take it back. "It's not money," he said, "it's my feelings. Don't think about it too much, just take it." All I could do was thank him and accept the money. Haruki Murakami
When?' said the moon to the stars in the sky Soon' said the wind that followed them all Who?' said the cloud that started to cry Me' said the rider as dry as a bone How?' said the sun that melted the ground and 'Why?' said the river that refused to run and 'Where?' said the thunder without a sound Here' said the rider and took up his gun No' said the stars to the moon in the sky No' said the trees that started to moan No' said the dust that blunted its eyes Yes' said the rider as white... Nick Cave
Dorothy Thompson quote: "There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find..."
There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth. Dorothy Thompson
For at the height of pleasure he had experienced a revelation that he could not believe, that he even refused to admit, which was that his illusory love for Fermina Daza could be replaced by an earthly passion. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
She knew that she belonged to this man, body and soul. Every trace of shame departed; it was burnt out by the fire that consumed her. She gave him a thousand opportunities; she fought to turn his words to serious things. He baffled her with his shallow smile and ready tongue, that twisted all topics to triviality. By six o'clock she was morally on her knees before him; she was imploring him to stay to dinner with her. He refused. Aleister Crowley
Mary Renault quote: "There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally..."
There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare. Mary Renault
I wish that they shall all stay with the teachings, that they shall reach their goal! It is not my place to judge another person's life. Only for myself, for myself alone. I must decide, I must chose, I must refuse. Herman Hesse
He stood up, took his tray over to the PLEASE DISPOSE OF YOUR REFUSE WITH CARE receptacle, and dumped the whole thing. If you had told him that there were children starving in Africa he would have been flattered that you’d noticed. Terry Prachett
So society has strangled in its asylums all those it wanted to get rid of or protect itself from, because they refused to become its accomplices in certain great nastiness. Antonin Artaud
Michel Foucault quote: "Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but..."
Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are. Michel Foucault
Paulo Coelho quote: "Whenever I refused to follow my fate, something very hard to..."
Whenever I refused to follow my fate, something very hard to bear would happen in my life. Paulo Coelho
I believe that. But I want you to know something — when it comes to all this enemies nonsense, I’m out. I am a neutral country. I am Switzerland. I refuse to be affected by territorial disputes between mythical creatures. Jacob is family. You are . . . well, not exactly the love of my life, because I expect to love you for much longer than that. The love of my existence. I don’t care who’s a werewolf and who’s a vampire. If Angela turns out to be a witch, she can join the party, too. Stephenie Meyer
... Those masterful images because complete Grew in pure mind, but out of what began? A mound of refuse or the sweepings of a street, Old kettles, old bottles, and a broken can, Old iron, old bones, old rags, that raving slut Who keeps the till. Now that my ladder's gone, I must lie down where all the ladders start In the foul rag and bone shop of the heart. William Butler Yeats

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