Refuses Quotes

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Napoleon Hill

Person, After, Effort

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.
Napoleon Hill

Person, Fighting, Victory

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
Albert Camus

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 that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Giving, Democracy, Happen

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.
William James

Truth, Long, Nothing

Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.
Thomas Carlyle

Him, Obedience, Woe

If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.
Joseph Stalin

Good, Ourselves, Shall

The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
James A. Baldwin

Power, Black, Accept

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.
Andre Gide

Beauty, Today, Mind

As a real person, he wouldn't last a minute, would he? But drama is about imperfection. And we've moved away from the aspirational hero. We got tired of it, it was dull. If I was House's friend, I would hate it. How he so resolutely refuses to be happy or take the kind-hearted road. But we don't always like morally good people, do we?
Hugh Laurie

Good, Happy, Hate

The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin.
Thomas Huxley

Faith, Knowledge, Him

Consider what each soil will bear, and what each refuses.
Virgil

Consider, Bear, Soil

He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
John McCarthy

Talk, Nonsense, Doomed

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.
Arthur C. Clarke

Power, Give, President

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
H. G. Wells

Sea, Confess, Crew

Reality is whatever refuses to go away when I stop believing in it.
Philip K. Dick

Reality, Away, Whatever

Acting with creatures that aren't there is kind like acting with an actor who refuses to come out of his trailer. You still have to go on and do the scene.
Liam Neeson

Acting, Actor, Scene

Like some kind of particularly tenacious vampire the short story refuses to die, and seems at this point in time to be a wonderful length for our generation.
Neil Gaiman

Time, Die, Short

The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.
Simon Wiesenthal

Home, Parents, Silence

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.
Alexander McQueen

Self, Fashion, Ideas

If Willie Nelson had been Rosa Parks, there never would have been a civil rights movement in this country, because he refuses to leave the back of the bus.
Kinky Friedman

Country, Leave, Rights

I've still got a brilliant head of hair, which refuses to lay down!
Rod Stewart

Down, Hair, Head

With each piece I've completed I have worked to make it intact, and each of them has been an equal high. It's like children. A mother refuses to pick out one as a favorite, and I can't do any better with the dances.
Twyla Tharp

Mother, Children, High

We have a Conservative leader that believes in green taxes, that won't bring back grammar schools, that believes in continuing with total open-door migration from eastern Europe and refuses to give us a referendum on the EU.
Nigel Farage

Give, Leader, Won

There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.
Ida Tarbell

Power, Truth, Working

If the person at the wheel refuses to ask for directions, it is time for a new driver.
Jennifer Granholm

Time, Person, Ask

Our national media refuses to report that even the Supreme Court did not say marriage was a human right in all cases nor did it say that the heterosexual definition violated anyone's right or that the heterosexual definition of marriage was unconstitutional.
Stockwell Day

Marriage, Human, Anyone

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

Woman, Denial, Ability

That is why if Lebanon concludes a peace agreement with Israel and brings that accord to the Parliament our deputies will reject it; Hezbollah refuses any conciliation with Israel in principle.
Hassan Nasrallah

Peace, Why, Israel

Anyone who refuses to speak out off campus does not deserve to be listened to on campus.
Theodore Hesburgh

Speak, Off, Anyone

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