Quotes with refuses

  • Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.

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  • Alexander McQueen British fashion is self confident and fearless. It refuses to bow to commerce, thus generating a constant flow of new ideas whilst drawing in British heritage.
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  • Maya Angelou A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim.
    Maya Angelou
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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  • Napoleon Hill Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • William James He who refuses to embrace an unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Rabbi Hillel He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.
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  • Arthur C. Clarke I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.
    Arthur C. Clarke
    British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist (1917 - 2008)
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  • Albert Camus Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Philip K. Dick Reality is whatever refuses to go away when I stop believing in it.
    Philip K. Dick
    American science fiction writer (1928 - 1982)
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  • George Orwell The existence of good bad literature - the fact that one can be amused or excited or even moved by a book that one's intellect simply refuses to take seriously - is a reminder that art is not the same thing as cerebration.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • James Baldwin The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Bernard Devoto The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.
    Bernard Devoto
    American historian, essayist and teacher
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  • Gail Sheehy There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed.
    Gail Sheehy
    American author, journalist, and lecturer (1936 - 2020)
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  • André Gide Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes - our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking around.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Leslie Fiedler Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to, it will inevitably continue to reflect the finicky canons of the genteel tradition and the depressing pieties of the Culture Religion of Modernism.
    Leslie Fiedler
    American literary critic (1917 - 2003)
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  • Napoleon Hill Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Pamela Hansford Johnson We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer the true portrait in all its homogeneity, to one with a detail added which refuses to fit in.
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  • Bill Clinton You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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