| "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 |
| "A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth." »Lao Tzu |
| "This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy." »George Bernard Shaw |
| "Faced by the mountainous heap of the minutiae of knowledge and awed by the watchful severity of his colleagues, the modern historian too often takes refuge in learned articles or narrowly specialized dissertations, small fortresses that are easy to defend from attack." »Steven Runciman |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "However often you may have done them a favour, if you once refuse they forget everything except your refusal." »Pliny the Younger |
| "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 |
| "An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it." »Orlando A. Battista |
| "Michael I'll make him an offer he can't refuse." »Godfather, The |
| "We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse." »Anne-Sophie Swetchine |
| "To no one will we sell, to no one will we refuse or delay right or justice." »Magna Carta |
| "If you refuse where you have always granted you invite to theft." »Publilius Syrus |
| "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 |
| "To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal." »Peter Ustinov |
| "It's a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it." »W. Somerset Maugham |
| "War will cease when men refuse to fight." »F. Hansen |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
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