Refusal famous quotes

The test of intellect is the refusal to belabor the obvious.
-- Alfred Bester

#Tests #Refusal #Obvious

Refusal to forgive reveals we have minimized our offense against God and we have maximized a brother's offense against us.
-- Alistair Begg

#Brother #Forgiving #Refusal

The only condition of fighting for the right to create is faith in your own vocation, readiness to serve, and refusal to compromise.
-- Andrei Tarkovsky

#Fighting #Compromise #Refusal

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

#Savages #Refusal #Characteristics

Refusal to hope is nothing more than a decision to die.
-- Bernie Siegel

#Decision #Refusal

Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.
-- Carrie Snow

#Believe #Evolution #Refusal

Your suffering is shaped exactly by your refusal to open.
-- David Deida

#Suffering #Refusal

Faith is the refusal to panic.
-- David Lloyd-Jones

#Panic #Refusal

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

#Suffering #Refusal #Grows

Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.
-- Diana Vreeland

#Elegance #Well Dressed #Refusal

There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth.
-- Dorothy Thompson

#Fear #Refusal #Persistent

Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise.
-- Eric Hoffer

#Thinking #Praise #Refusal

The refusal to choose is a form of choice; disbelief is a form of belief.
-- Frank Barron

#Choices #Belief #Refusal

The biggest obstacle to making Christ magnificent is the refusal to make yourself small.
-- James MacDonald

#Obstacles #Christ #Refusal

Frivolity is the species' refusal to suffer.
-- John Lahr

#Suffering #Refusal #Species

True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
-- Karl Popper

#Ignorance #Absence #Refusal

There is no such thing as failure for an artist, unless failure is the refusal to attempt, the unwillingness to dream.
-- Laurence Overmire

#Dream #Artist #Refusal

The refusal to acknowledge the scientific value of embryonic stem cell research is one more tragic misstep.
-- Lois Capps

#Cells #Research #Refusal

In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.
-- Margaret Halsey

#Defeated #Refusal #Circumstances

There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy.
-- Paul Rudnick

#Joy #Atheism #Refusal

No is no negative in a woman's mouth.
-- Philip Sidney

#Mouths #Negative #Refusal

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

#Thinking #Love Is #Refusal

The prompter the refusal, the less the disappointment.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Disappointment #Refusal

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

#Self #Evil #Refusal

Only the refusal to listen guarantees one against being ensnared by the truth.
-- Robert Nozick

#Guarantees #Refusal

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

#Engineering #Given #Refusal

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

#Gains #Accepting #Refusal

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

#Reality #Pigs #Refusal

Faith is the refusal to panic.
-- Martyn Lloyd-Jones

#Faith #Panic #Refusal

Faith is a refusal to panic, come what may.
-- Martyn Lloyd-Jones

#May #Panic #Refusal