Refusal Quotes - Page 2

The beginning of suffering is often a refusal to look at the situation as it really is.

Tout refus du langage est une mort. Any refusal of language is a death.

The unforgivable sin is the refusal to pardon.

Sin is a refusal to grow, a refusal to love, a refusal to get committed, to be concerned, and to take risks.

When all hope is lost, pig-headed refusal to acknowledge reality will always save the day.

He who never says "no" is no true man.

We gain power in our refusal to accept less than we deserve.

The test of intellect is the refusal to belabor the obvious.

Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards because a refusal often offends, I read somewhere.

Who timidly requests invites refusal.

The engineer's power was usually limited to a refusal to endorse a given plan, or to the tender of his resignation.

Evil is the refusal to see one's self in others.

Perhaps that is what love is -- the momentary or prolonged refusal to think of another person in terms of power.

...into hate, into refusal, against hope and without fear

Frivolity is the species' refusal to suffer.

What else is death but the refusal any longer to grow and suffer change?

While the Jeffersonian did not flatly deny the Creator's power to perform miracles, he admired His refusal to do so.

The leading characteristic of the savage state is its refusal or avoidance of industry.