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“I myself am a Buddhist, not a Christian. But I cannot help but think that if Christ ran a public establishment, it would be open to all, and He would be the last to refuse service to anyone. It is, simply put, the most un-Christian of notions.”

Ifs Thinking God Helping Would Be Christian Lasts Jesus Christ Church Religious Lord Directors Equal Notion Refuse Equality Christian Inspirational Buddhist Ran Establishment

Author:George Takei

“The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.”

Reason Trouble Refuse Meaningless

Author:Bernard DeVoto

“I use debit cards for everyday purchases, as I don't believe in credit cards. But this has caused problems, especially with American touring, because I refuse to have a credit card - and in America you can't pay for anything on a debit card.”

Believe Use Problem America Pay Everyday Don't Believe Refuse Credit Cards Touring Credit Card Debit Debit Cards

Author:Paloma Faith

“Our minds, bodies, feelings, relationships are all informed by our questions. What you ask is who you are. What you find depends on what you search for. And what shapes our lives are the questions we ask, refuse to ask, or never think of asking.”

Thinking Mind Feelings Body Asks Our Lives Depends Shapes Asking Who You Are Refuse Mind Body

Author:Sam Keen

“The Muslims refuse our culture and try to impose their culture on us. I reject them, and this is not only my duty toward my culture-it is toward my values, my principles, my civilization.”

Trying Values Culture Principles Duty Civilization Refuse Rejects

Author:Oriana Fallaci

“Readers should aspire to what is excellent. They should refuse to read a substitute Bible. They should want a Bible that calls them to their higher selves - or to something higher than their current level of attainment.”

Want Should Self Levels Reader Higher Currents Refuse Excellent Substitutes Aspire Attainment Higher Self

Author:Leland Ryken

“I know the world is bruised and bleeding, and though it is important not to ignore its pain, it is also critical to refuse to succumb to its malevolence. Like failure, chaos contains information that can lead to knowledge - even wisdom. Like art.”

Knows World Art Important Pain Information Chaos Refuse Critical Bleeding Bruised Malevolence

Author:Toni Morrison

“To refuse to accept the call of your best life is to insult the force that created you.”

Life Is Force Accepting Refuse Insult

Book:Discover Your Destiny with The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

Source: Discover Your Destiny with The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

“In a world where women are commodities, a woman who refuses to sell herself will have the thing she refuses to sell taken away from her by force”

World Force Taken Sells Refuse Commodity

Book:The Sadeian Woman: An Exercise in Cultural History

Source: The Sadeian Woman: An Exercise in Cultural History

“I find the parallels between how some investors refuse to recognise the trends and our reaction to some of our environmental challenges very powerful. There is an unwillingness to process unpleasant data.”

Process Challenges Powerful Environmental Refuse Reactions Data Trends Investors Parallels Our Environment Very Powerful Recognise Environmental Challenges

Author:Jeremy Grantham

“We need to teach people to refuse to install non-free plug-ins; we need to teach people to care more about their long-term interest of freedom than their immediate desire to view a particular site.”

People Needs Long Care Desire Term Interest Views Teach Particular Refuse Long Term Site Plugs

Author:Richard Stallman

“Refuse to believe and research is a way to the truth.”

Way Believe Research Refuse

Author:Khem Veasna

“It's amazing what you can accomplish if you simply refuse to quit.”

“Prophets are those who take life as it is and expand it. They refuse to shrink a vision of tomorrow to the boundaries of yesterday.”

Vision Tomorrow Refuse Yesterday Boundaries Prophet Shrinks

Author:Joan D. Chittister

“It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake.”

Matter Age Faces Political Issues Society Refuse Stakes Consistently Allegiance Unimportant Malady

Book:Alone

Source: Alone

“Between the banks of pain and pleasure the river of life flows. It is only when the mind refuses to flow with life, and gets stuck at the banks, that it becomes a problem.”

Mind Problem Pain Pleasure Flow Rivers Refuse Stuck Pain And Pleasure

Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“The worst pain in our lives comes from the mistakes we refuse to acknowledge--the things we've done that are so our of harmony with who we are that we can't bear to look at them.”

Looks Done Pain Mistake Our Lives Worst Bears Harmony Refuse Acknowledge Who We Are

Book:Think of a Number (Dave Gurney, No. 1)

Source: Think of a Number (Dave Gurney, No. 1)

“Every punch I threw with bad intentions to a vital area...I aimed for his ear...I wanted to bust his eardrum...Every punch had bad intentions...My record will last for immortality, It'll never be broken...I want to live forever...I refuse to lose...I would have to be carried out dead to lose...I was coming to destroy and win the Heavyweight Championship of the World, which I done.”

World Want Done Wanted Lasts Winning Loses Forever Records Broken Areas Ears Intention Refuse Immortality Boxing Championship Live Forever Heavyweights Bad Intentions Heavyweight Championship

Author:Mike Tyson

“It is not pride when the beech-tree refuses to copy the oak. He knows his limitations. The only chance of any healthy life for him is to be as full a beech-tree as he can.”

Self Chance Tree Pride Healthy Refuse Copies Oaks Healthy Life

Author:Phillips Brooks

“I refuse to see literature as amusement, as a game. I think that you ought not to approach literature without a moral responsibility for every word you write.”

Thinking Writing Literature Games Responsibility Moral Ought Approach Refuse Amusement Moral Responsibility

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“I refuse to let past bruises cover the light. It ain't all good, but it's all good enough so I know I'm alright”

Knows Enough Light Past Refuse Good Enough Alright Bruises

Author:Eyedea

“Don't pretend to be what you are not. Don't refuse to be what you are.”

Refuse

Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“The past is what makes the present coherent, and the past will remain horrible for exactly as long as we refuse to assess it honestly.”

Long Past Refuse Honestly Horrible

Author:James A. Baldwin

“I am preparing myself for death. When I go to sleep, I try to keep myself smiling. So that when I die, I have a smile on my lips. I want an electric cremation. I don't want any poems or fuss after that. And for heaven's sake, don't bring back my ashes. Flush them down the toilet if the crematorium refuses to keep them. If they tell you that I am dead, I want you to give a big laugh.”

Ifs Want Giving Trying Bigs Dies Heaven Sleep Laughing Sake Lips Refuse Electric Ashes I Want You Preparing Toilets Going To Sleep Cremation

Author:Zohra Sehgal

“O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name; Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love... 'Tis but thy name that is my enemy; What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.”

“Coleridge declares that a man cannot have a good conscience who refuses apple dumplings, and I confess that I am of the same opinion.”

Men Opinion Conscience Refuse Apples Dumplings

Author:Charles Lamb

“The Ideal Man should talk to us as if we were goddesses, and treat us as if we were children. He should refuse all our serious requests, and gratify every one of our whims. He should encourage us to have caprices, and forbid us to have missions. He should always say much more than he means, and always mean much more than he says.”

Ifs Men Should Mean Children Serious Ideals Treats Refuse Missions Goddess Request Whim Caprice Ideal Man

Book:The complete plays

Source: The complete plays

“No matter what these terrorists do, I refuse to be terrorized. All this requires is just a few alterations in our day to day lives. For example, my first instinct when I receive an envelope full of white powder... is to snort it! I just won't do that this time!”

Firsts Matter White Example No Matter What Instinct Refuse Terrorist Day To Day Envelopes Powder Alterations Day Life Day To Day Life

Author:Margaret Cho

“The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced.”

Sorrow Refuse Mourning Cherish Affliction Divorced

Book:The complete works of Washington Irving in one volume with a memoir of the author

Source: The complete works of Washington Irving in one volume with a memoir of the author

“He who awaits the call, but sees the need, Already sets his spirit to refuse it.”

Needs Spirit Refuse Refusal

Author:Dante Alighieri

“Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice.”

Mean Self Used Justice Hell Finals Refuse Unjust Violation Scolding Scolded

Author:Lillian Hellman

“Let the dream unroll itself to its very end. You cannot help it. But you can look at the dream as a dream, refuse it the stamp of reality.”

Looks Ends Helping Dream Reality Refuse Stamps

Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“If wisdom were offered me with the proviso that I should keep it shut up and refrain from declaring it, I should refuse. There's no delight in owning anything unshared.”

Ifs Should Wisdom Delight Refuse Shut Up Refrain Declaring

Author:Seneca the Younger

“To love the truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by it.”

Truth Truth Is Oneself Refuse Saddened

Author:Andre Gide

“Take the good with the evil, for ye all are pensioners of God, and none may choose or refuse the cup His wisdom mixeth.”

May Evil Refuse Cups

Book:Proverbial philosophy: in 4 ser., now first complete

Source: Proverbial philosophy: in 4 ser., now first complete

“A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked... . We as black people, we as people, we as the human species have got to get used to the fact we're not going to be right most of the time, not even when our intentions are good. We've got to go naked and see what happens.”

People Want Humans Facts Happens Used Black Intention Species Refuse Naked Black People Human Species

Author:Nikki Giovanni

“I believe serious progress (in the abolition of war) can be achieved only when men become organized on an international scale and refuse, as a body, to enter military or war service.”

Men Believe War Body I Believe Progress Military Serious International Refuse Scales Organized Abolition

Book:The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

“I appeal to all men and women, whether they be eminent or humble, to declare that they will refuse to give any further assistance to war or the preparation of war.”

Men Giving War Men And Women Refuse Humble Preparation Appeals Assistance

Book:The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

“Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many things which perhaps are of no importance, that it cannot but see something feeble in a civilization which smiles as it refuses to make the battlefield the test of excellence.”

Religion Buddhism Civilization Tests Importance Excellence Busy Refuse Meat Combat Fierce Hunters Battlefields Adventurer

Book:Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)

“It is superstitious to put one's hopes in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them.”

Refuse Arrogant Submit Ceremony Superstitious Formality

Book:Pascal Pensées

Source: Pascal Pensées

“You must not refuse any additional cups of tea under the following circumstances: if it is hot; if it is cold; if you are tired; if anybody thinks that you might be tired; if you are nervous; if you are gay; before you go out; if you are out; if you have just returned home; if you feel like it; if you do not feel like it; if you have had no tea for some time; if you have just had a cup.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Home Might Cold Circumstances Gay Hot Tired Following Refuse Nervous Cups Tea Cups Of Tea

Author:George Mikes

“Long-married couples balance their checkbooks as a substitute for love-making, or they refuse each other love by protesting one another's financial error or excess.”

Long Marriage Couple Balance Married Errors Financial Refuse Substitutes Excess Love Making Married Couples

Book:Mrs. Harris: the death of the Scarsdale diet doctor

Source: Mrs. Harris: the death of the Scarsdale diet doctor

“I hate to be treated as if I'm invisible. I get incensed when people talk across me or refuse to catch my eye in a restaurant or shop.”

People Ifs Eye Hate I Hate Refuse Invisible Treated Restaurants Shops

Author:Lynne Truss

“It is the fellowship of the Cross to experience the burden of the other. If one does not experience it, the fellowship he belongs to is not Christian. If any member refuses to bear that burden, he denies the law of Christ.”

Ifs Doe Christian Law Christ Christianity Bears Members Crosses Refuse Burden Deny Fellowship

Book:Life Together

Source: Life Together

“Women like other women fine. The more feminine she is, the more comfortable a woman feels with her own sex. It is only the occasional and therefore noticeable adventuress who refuses to make friends with us.”

Feels Sex Women Fine Comfortable Refuse Feminine Occasional

Book:The province of the heart

Source: The province of the heart

“I suppose if I had my time again I would refuse it and stay at Fulham because I thoroughly enjoyed my time there, and secondly I would have taken it on my own terms.”

Ifs Term My Own Taken Refuse Enjoyed My Time Fulham

Author:Kevin Keegan

“The soul is that which denies the body. For example, that which refuses to run when the body trembles, to strike when the body is angry, to drink when the body is thirsty.”

Inspirational Soul Body Running Example Drink Angry Refuse Deny Strikes Thirsty

Author:Alain-Rene Lesage

“Tremble with awe, O men! The insults God suffered for the sake of our salvation you too must endure! God is slapped on the face by the basest of slaves (Jn. 18:22). He gives you an example of victory, yet do you refuse to undergo this at the hands of a man of like passions as yourself? You are ashamed of becoming an imitator of God (Eph. 5:1), how then will you reign with Him and share in His glory in the kingdom of heaven if you do not endure that man?”

“Some have narrowed their minds, and so fettered them with the chains of antiquity that not only do they refuse to speak save as the ancients spake, but they refuse to think save as the ancients thought. God speaks to us, too, and the best thoughts are those now being vouchsafed to us. We will excel the ancients!”

Thinking Mind Wisdom Speak Refuse Chains Antiquity

Author:Girolamo Savonarola

“Those of us who refuse to risk and grow get swallowed up by life.”

Grows Risk Adventure Refuse

Author:Patti Hansen

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