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“I refuse to be a doormat to any man. I will never allow anyone to push me around. I am my own mistress.”

“A wild appreciation of men and women . . . who passionately and fearlessly and recklessly redefine romance. . . . The passionate creatures who refuse to play it safe and settle down now have an intelligent, like-minded advocate.”

Men Play Romance Safe Creatures Men And Women Intelligent Passionate Refuse Appreciation Settling Settling Down

Author:Jessa Crispin

“I press my eyes shut and will the thoughts away. But they refuse to comply, and instead, they lodge themselves in the crevasses of my brain, poking out just enough that I know they're still with me, like a tiny splinter in your baby toe that gnaws away at you with every step you take.”

Knows Stills Enough Eye Brain Steps Baby Presses Refuse Tiny Toes Every Step Lodges Splinters Every Step You Take

Book:Time of My Life: A Novel

Source: Time of My Life: A Novel

“I refuse to be released on the basis of a 'condition for negotiations' and I will not accept the price for my freedom to be several meters of the land of Palestine, the land that we have fought for and been imprisoned for. I refuse to be free on the condition of the expansion of settlements. I refuse this offer, not even a single house for Zionist settlers will be built as the price of my freedom.”

House Accepting Land Conditions Offers Built Bases Refuse Expansion Negotiation Palestine Settlement Meter Zionist Settlers

Author:Ahmad Sa'adat

“Refuse to give up, your mistakes don't define you. They don't dictate where you're headed, they remind you.”

Giving Mistake Giving Up Refuse Define You

Author:T.I.

“In times of war, don't touch the guns; stay as a human! Always refuse to be a killer!”

Humans War Gun Refuse Killers

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“A good teacher always refuses to have disciples! Let everyone goes his own way, in his own path instead of following others! If the direction is correct, there will be a meeting in the same place!”

Ifs Way Path Teacher Meetings Following Refuse Disciple Good Teacher

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Courage refuses frontiers!”

Refuse Frontiers

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Have you taken the decision of war? Then, you are sick! Have you participated the war? Then, you are sick! Do you produce guns? Then, you are sick! Refuse all of them and be healthy, be human, be normal, be a real man!”

Men Humans War Real Decision Taken Produce Healthy Normal Gun Sick Refuse Real Men

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“I refuse for anyone to tell me who I am because I know who I am.”

Knows Refuse Who I Am

Author:Angelique Kidjo

“Men don't want to be confused by the facts when their minds are already made up. Women know the art of negotiation - just ask the mother of a four-year-old who refuses to eat his veggies or the parent of a teenager.”

Knows Men Want Years Mind Art Made Facts Mother Asks Parent Four Refuse Teenager Confused Four Years Negotiation

Author:Kamla Persad-Bissessar

“There are people who refuse to say that Africa is a continent, but that doesn't remove the fact that it is a continent.”

People Facts Refuse Remove Continents

Author:Angelique Kidjo

“Remember that good things come in threes and so do bad things and always apologize when you've done something wrong but don't you ever apologize for the way your eyes refuse to stop shining.”

Way Done Eye Remember Shining Good Things Refuse Bad Things Apologizing

Author:Sarah Kay

“If you believe in existence, you will refuse to be a hero!”

Ifs Believe Existence Hero Refuse If You Believe

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Ignorant, unconscious and dishonourable part of a society want and like kings, dictators, padishahs and all sort of despots; educated, conscious and honourable part of the same society hate and refuse monarchs, tyrants, oppressors and any kind of autocrats!”

Want Kind Hate Kings Conscious Refuse Ignorant Educated Unconscious Tyrants Dictator Oppressors Monarchs Despots

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“No sublime wisdom asks to be worshipped or served; the greatest and the most honourable masters are those who refuse to have slaves!”

Asks Masters Slave Refuse Sublime

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Priest is a fisherman and Holy Book is a fishook. We either refuse to be a fish or we burn in the frying pan of irrationality!”

Book Holy Fishes Refuse Priests Fisherman Irrationality Holy Books Frying Frying Pans

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Refuse to seek for the road to paradise, because every beautiful place is already a paradise!”

Beautiful Refuse Paradise Very Beautiful Beautiful Places

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“There are certain things which are lost by being kept and saved by being used. Any individual talent is like that. If it is used, it will develop into something still greater. If someone refuses to use it, in the end that talent will be lost. Supremely so, life is like that.”

Ifs Stills Ends Use Life Is Used Certain Individual Lost Greater Talent Refuse Saved Life Is Like Individual Talent

Book:Barclay on the Lectionary: Mark, Year B

Source: Barclay on the Lectionary: Mark, Year B

“Nationalism must now be added to the refuse pile of superstitions. We are now citizens of the world, and the man who divides the race into elect Irishmen and reprobate foreign devils (especially Englishmen) had better live on the Blaskets where he can admire himself without disturbance.”

Men World Race He Man Citizens Devil Refuse Admire Nationalism Divides Superstitions Englishmen Disturbance Irishmen

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“In the New Testament our enemies are those who harbor hostility against us, not those against whom we cherish hostility, for Jesus refuses to reckon with such a possibility.”

Jesus Enemy Possibility Refuse Cherish Testament Hostility Harbors New Testament

Book:The Cost of Discipleship

Source: The Cost of Discipleship

“It is over, the Reich walls have collapsed, my generals have betrayed me and my army refuses to fight, this is the herr Doernitz! I only hope you can turn this around.”

Turns Fighting Wall Army Refuse Betrayed

Author:Adolf Hitler

“The best state is that in which bad men are not allowed to hold office, and good men are not allowed to refuse office.”

Men States Office Refuse Good Man Bad Man

Author:Pittacus of Mytilene

“In the name of the constitution of Texas, which has been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath. I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her.”

Wells Has Beens Names Constitution Refuse Civil War Texas Strife Oath Bloodshed Texan

Book:The Writings of Sam Houston, 1813-1863: 1825-1863

Source: The Writings of Sam Houston, 1813-1863: 1825-1863

“When someone who wields political power does something you dislike or disagree with, it's incumbent upon you to object, criticize, and demand a different course. Those who refuse to do so are abdicating the most basic duty of citizenship and rendering themselves impotent.”

Doe Different Political Courses Objects Duty Demand Refuse Criticize Disagree Dislike Citizenship Political Power Rendering Incumbents

Author:Glenn Greenwald

“Apparently I don't do stairs, I won't walk on carpet and I refuse to walk on grass. How do I do to get around, hover?”

Walks Refuse Grass Carpet Stairs

Author:Mariah Carey

“Folks have to pin me down because, for one thing, I don't have a laptop. I don't have an iPhone, and I refuse to carry them because they're immensely hackable.”

One Thing Folks Refuse Pins Iphone Laptops

Author:Dan Aykroyd

“I refuse to eat a fried egg if the white is still runny or transparent. I really can't be doing it. I always have to flip it over.”

Ifs Stills White Refuse Eggs Transparent Flip

Author:Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

“He who refuses praise the first time that it is offered does so because he would hear it a second time.”

Firsts Doe First Time Praise Refuse

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“I've been accused of bad taste, and I'll go down to my grave accused of it and always by the same people, the ones who eat in restaurants that reserve the right to refuse service to anyone.”

People Taste Refuse Graves Restaurants Reserves Accused Bad Taste

Author:Lenny Bruce

“It used to be that your rights were infringed upon if the government punished or threatened you for expressing your sincerest beliefs. Now, your rights are infringed upon if you want something but someone refuses to buy it for you.”

Ifs Want Government Used Belief Rights Refuse Used To Be Threatened Want Something

Author:Matt Walsh

“Refuse to think in terms of this or that. All pain needs investigation. The mind is nothing else but the self. Assumption obscures reality without destroying it. All separation, every kind of estrangement and alienation is false..Your being a person is due to the illusion of space and time.The mind creates time and space and takes its own creations for reality.”

Thinking Needs Mind Kind Persons Self Reality Pain Term Space Creation Illusion Refuse Dues Separation Assumption Destroying Investigation Time And Space Alienation Estrangement

Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Stop obeying a dictator; you will then see that he is nothing! Stop obeying a king; you will then see that he is nothing! If you refuse the Devil, you will then see that he will shade away!”

Ifs Kings Devil Refuse Shade Dictator Obeying

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“The wisest minds are those who refuse all the negative inevitabilities!”

Mind Negative Refuse Wisest Inevitability

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Just as a satisfaction of instinct spells happiness for us, so severe suffering is caused us if the external world lets us starve, if it refuses to sate our needs. One may therefore hope to be freed from a part of one's sufferings by influencing the instinctual impulses.”

Ifs World Needs May Suffering Influence Instinct Satisfaction Refuse Impulse Spells Severe

Book:Civilization and Its Discontents

Source: Civilization and Its Discontents

“What I refuse to face within myself will meet me in the exterior world through you, not as you are, but as I have so construed you.”

World Faces Refuse Exterior

Author:James Hollis

“Obama dreams of a society without power relations, without the agonism that constitutes political life. Against such a position one might assert that justice is always an agon, a conflict, and to refuse this assertion is to consign human beings to wallow in some emotional, fusional balm.”

Humans Dream Might Political Justice Human Beings Position Emotional Conflict Relation Refuse Assertion Political Life

Author:Simon Critchley

“For authoritarians such as Lenin and Žižek, the dichotomy in politics is state power or no power, but I refuse to concede that these are the only options. Genuine politics is about the movement between these poles, and it takes place through the creation of what I call "interstitial distance" within the state.”

States Movement Creation Distance Refuse Genuine Dichotomy

Author:Simon Critchley

“I'm not technically rich, but I do have a lot of s**t that I don't need, that I refuse to share with others.”

Needs Rich Share Refuse

Author:Maria Bamford

“Why all this insistence on the senses? Because in order to convince your reader that he is THERE, you must assault each of his senses, in turn, with color, sound, taste, and texture. If your reader feels the sun on his flesh, the wind fluttering his shirt sleeves, half your fight is won. The most improbable tales can be made believable, if your reader, through his senses, feels certain that he stands at the middle of events. He cannot refuse, then, to participate. The logic of events always gives way to the logic of the senses.”

“Constellations have always been troublesome things to name. If you give one of them a fanciful name, it will always refuse to live up to it; it will always persist in not resembling the thing it has been named for.”

Ifs Giving Has Beens Names Refuse Persist Constellations Troublesome

Book:Following the Equator:

Source: Following the Equator:

“It is foolish to be convinced without evidence, but it is equally foolish to refuse to be convinced by real evidence.”

Real Evidence Refuse Convinced Foolish

Author:Upton Sinclair

“Be who you are and I'll be who I am. I refuse to take sides, because everybody has their story.”

Stories Sides Who You Are Refuse Who I Am Be Who You Are

Author:Sandra Bernhard

“A person who refuses to give up will always succeed eventually.”

Giving Persons Succeed Giving Up Refuse

Book:The Confident Woman: Start Living Boldly and Without Fear

Source: The Confident Woman: Start Living Boldly and Without Fear

“Prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted. And if an infinitely wise Being listens to the requests of finite and foolish creatures, of course He will sometimes grant and sometimes refuse them.”

Ifs May Sometimes Courses Prayer Wise Creatures Essence Refuse Foolish Granted Grants Finite Compulsion Request

Book:Joyful Christian

Source: Joyful Christian

“The pleasure we hold in esteem for the course of our lives ought to have a greater share of our time dedicated to it; we should refuse no occasion nor omit any opportunity of drinking, and always have it in our minds.”

Should Mind Courses Opportunity Pleasure Greater Our Lives Share Ought Drinking Refuse Esteem Occasions Our Time Dedicated

Book:Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays

Source: Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays

“It takes a pretty strong person, a rather unusual young person, to stand up to ridicule and refuse to give in to temptation. There are so many things today in modern music, on television, and in the movies that portray a life that is nowhere near the life the Lord would have us live. Consequently, we cannot afford to turn to the radio, television, or Hollywood to take our cues about what is right and what is wrong. It is scary to realize that the more we are exposed to Hollywood's version of life, the more we gradually begin to accept it.”

Giving Persons Today Young Turns Strong Realizing Accepting Lord Modern Television Hollywood Radio Refuse Scary Versions Temptation Unusual Exposed Ridicule Strong Person Modern Music

Author:Robert L. Millet

“I refuse to accept the view . . . that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.”

Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

“No matter how often I tell people I'm thirty-nine some of them refuse to believe I'm that old.”

People Believe Matter Refuse Nine Thirty

Author:Jack Benny

“In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.”

Facts Science Work Scientist Refuse Concentration

Author:Thomas Huxley

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