| "My final merit I refuse you, I refuse putting from me what I really am, Encompass worlds but never try to encompass me, I crowd your sleekest and best by simply looking toward you. Writing and talk do not prove me, I carry the plenum of proof in my face, With the hush of my lips I wholly confound the skeptic." »Walt Whitman |
| "I am only one but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something I will not refuse to do something I can do." »Helen Keller |
| "I am only one, But still I am one. I cannot do everything, But still I can do something And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do." »Edward Everett Hale |
| "If you refuse where you have always granted you invite to theft." »Publilius Syrus |
| "An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it." »Orlando A. Battista |
| "A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution." »Jean-Paul Sartre |
| "People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way." »A. C. Benson |
| "We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse." »Anne-Sophie Swetchine |
| "Michael I'll make him an offer he can't refuse." »Godfather, The |
| "To no one will we sell, to no one will we refuse or delay right or justice." »Magna Carta |
| "However often you may have done them a favour, if you once refuse they forget everything except your refusal." »Pliny the Younger |
| "War will cease when men refuse to fight." »F. Hansen |
| "I refuse to be a doormat to any man. I will never allow anyone to push me around. I am my own mistress." »Manisha Koirala |
| "It's a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it." »W. Somerset Maugham |
| "To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal." »Peter Ustinov |
| "People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly." »Brendan Francis |
| "Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you." »Madame de Tencin |
| "The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself." »Mark Caine |
| "If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that I should keep it close and not communicate it, I would refuse the gift." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
| "Some of us just go along . . . until that marvelous day people stop intimidating us -- or should I say we refuse to let them intimidate us" »Peggy Lee |
| "An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it." »James Albert Michener |
| "At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope that it can be done, then they see that it can be done--then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago." »Francis Eliza Hodgson Burnett |
| "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!" »Mehmet Murat ildan |
| "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you." »Conan Doyle |
| "To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter." »Aleister Crowley |
| "On his deathbed Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuse are for all -- the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved." »Mark Twain |
| "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." »Janos Arnay |
| "refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle." »Edward Bulwer-Lytton |
| "Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage." »Unknown |
| "Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again." »Evelyn Underhill |
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